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28 January 2003 |
Says their chief scientist: "we are to conversational speech what SpeechWorks was to the core engine in 1996"
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Skeptical call center managers, or small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) for which CPE costs are prohibitive, should investigate outsourcing options to take advantage of speech recognition solutions with limited up-front investment. For example, an outsourcing customer might pay $10,000 a month instead of $500,000 upfront for a software license.
11:42:27 AM
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Education authorities will no doubt ban mobiles that are switched on in exams. But will this work? Longer-term, if many of our phones, watches, etc get networked, what will happen? It becomes impossible to firewall the exam room (unless we take our exams in Faraday cages?). Instead, maybe exams will need to shift away from measuring what-facts-you-know and towards how-do-you-think/problem-solve.
[via IP]
11:41:58 AM
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Dean Allen's Textile tool (which renders text into standards- and design-compliant html) now has a detextile feature. If it renders changes back into the original text, could it be used as an standards interface so you could move documents between, say, Word and Open Office, and have them look and behave the same? What a thought.
Alongside Textile now is Detextile, an inverted mirror of its conversion algorithms. This was the final piece of the puzzle. Now both text and HTML versions of articles are synchronized: make a change in one, it shows up in the other. I expect for most people this’ll never be needed, but to the markup-obsessed it should prove useful.
11:39:32 AM
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Taken by Marie Muchmore, the film shows the Kennedy motorcade turning into Houston Street. The final, fatal shot to the president’s head is clearly visible as is the “babushka lady”, a curiously attired woman filming close to the president’s car, who has never been positively identified and whose film has never been retrieved.
That any detail in the Muchmore film can be distinguished is remarkable. The original was shot on 8mm film stock now more than 40 years old and reprinted on 16mm stock shortly after the assassination. The poor quality of the print is one reason the film has had so little exposure.
11:28:42 AM
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In space, a rose smells differently. International Flavors and Fragrances Inc are designing new perfumes by extracting oils from an Overnight Sensation rose taken into space in 1998.
[via boingboing]
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