Apple buys UK-based speech technology startup VocalIQ

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7146cec2-6920-11e5-a155-02b6f8af6a62.html

by davidbarker • 11 years ago

32 10 11 years ago

ft.com

eridius• 11 years ago

This article is behind a paywall.

trevyn2• 11 years ago

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

benbenolson• 11 years ago

That's behind a paywall, too.

asd• 11 years ago

Paywall. Here's a re/code link:

http://recode.net/2015/10/02/apple-acquires-u-k-based-speech...

sebgr• 11 years ago

This is an early video of VocalIQ's system (2010) for people interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NwuqjUZalU

somebodyother• 11 years ago

Oh man, this is really impressive. I'm usually incredulous of applied NLP but this seems to have fantastic possibilities so close to implementation, it just needs a hip little web app wrapper. I hear gradients are in.

Jerry2• 11 years ago

This is also an interesting and a much more recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX4wlMQAK8o

Blaise Thomson speaking at Playfair Capital's Machine Intelligence 2015 in London.
Blaise is co-founder and CEO of VocalIQ, the world’s first self-learning dialogue API, putting real, natural conversation between people and their devices.

petra• 11 years ago

Why didn't Google buy them first ? does Google has something similar , externally or in research ?

chbrown• 11 years ago

Another paywall workaround is to use/spoof Google search as your referrer.

In Chrome, for example, install the "Referer Control" extension and add an entry for "ft.com", select the "Custom" referer setting, and paste "https://www.google.com/" (without quotes) into the textbox for that entry.

Apple buys UK-based speech technology startup VocalIQ

Related Stories