Apple buys UK-based speech technology startup VocalIQ(ft.com)
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Apple buys UK-based speech technology startup VocalIQ
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7146cec2-6920-11e5-a155-02b6f8af6a62.html
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This is an early video of VocalIQ's system (2010) for people interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NwuqjUZalU
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.
>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.
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.
Paywall. Here's a re/code link:
http://recode.net/2015/10/02/apple-acquires-u-k-based-speech...
http://recode.net/2015/10/02/apple-acquires-u-k-based-speech...
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Why didn't Google buy them first ? does Google has something similar , externally or in research ?
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