Wednesday, March 26, 2003

More family photo's up on the web... My Aunt Lisa pointed me to my cousin Kerry's picture that was put into a collage by the company that took her senior portrait.  Kerry's on Michigan State's women's club crew team which competed last Saturday. 11:29:02 PM    comment []  trackback []

More on phone/audio blogs. I'm glad to see this technology becoming more stuctured.  Back in the day (1995), Edict did some internal cgi-bin programming (has it been that long?) with a dialogic card in a 486 that used to answer the phones then put the voicemail up on an extranet as a .wav file.  At the time, we took it for granted even though it was pretty cutting edge.  Now we are here: "PhoneBlogger is an automated voice application that first asks you for info about which pre-configured blog you wish to post to. After collecting the necessary information, PhoneBlogger records your audio message. Finally, it posts a blog entry that links to the recorded audio. In a little more technical detail, PhoneBlogger is a VoiceXML application. It uses speech recognition and text to speech to collect information from you over the phone concerning the blog to which you want to post. A couple Python CGI scripts and some other programs are used to save the audio and convert it to an audio file format that can be easily played in a web browser. An XML-RPC call is used to post a blog entry linking to the audio file. " [via Marc's Voice and Audioblog/Mobileblogging News] 10:56:33 PM    comment []  trackback []

Grammie is famous! I don't think my grandmother knew her picture would be posted on her personal trainer's website, but she and her friend Maggie look pretty buff! 12:43:25 AM    comment []  trackback []

Braille cellphone What a great idea!  I wonder if any of these functions will filter down into regular phones. "This certainly makes plenty of sense: a combination cellphone/PDA for the blind. The ALVA MPO 5500 is a tri-band GSM phone that has a Braille keypad, a digital speech synthesizer, and a "screen" made of refreshable Braille cells. It can do text messaging and upcoming versions are supposed to include email, a web browser, GPS, and an MP3 player." [via Gizmodo] 12:38:59 AM    comment []  trackback []