Siri Jokes Aside, Voice Control Will Make Computing Better
It's easy to poke fun at Siri - but it's also easy to see where voice-control technology is headed - and why it's such a big deal.
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Articles tagged "Voice"
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Thu, 30 August 2012
If Facebook Is Smart, It'll Do More With Voice
Facebook could boost revenue by as much as $800 million per year by adding Skype-like voice service, according to a report by the…
Fri, 6 July 2012
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[Infographic] The 1,000-Year Evolution of Speech and Voice Recognition
From the Brazen Head to Apple's Siri, voice and speech recognition has come a long way. Check out the significant developments along the…
Wed, 9 November 2011
Amazon Did Not Buy A Siri Competitor
Charlotte-based CLT Blog connected the dots and found that Amazon has purchased a speech recognition startup called Yap, according to an SEC…
Wed, 6 July 2011
Do Consumers Really Want Video Calling?
Once a communication device for futuristic Sci Fi, now it seems as though video calling is ubiquitous. On the heels of the video…
Wed, 22 June 2011
New Survey Finds Americans Still Prefer the Phone Over Email, Texting, Social Networks
I think I could live quite happily without the "phone" part of my mobile phone. Other than taking press briefings and calling my parents, I…
Tue, 14 June 2011
Skype is Coming to More TVs via New Comcast Deal
The video and voice calling service Skype is coming to a TV near you, thanks to a new partnership with Comcast, a leading provider of…
Mon, 30 May 2011
Pew Research Finds Popularity of Internet Phone Calls Has Jumped Dramatically
Maybe Microsoft's multi-billion dollar deal for Skype wasn't such an outlandish deal after all. Because according to a recent poll…
Wed, 25 May 2011
Acquisition Fallout? Skype Ends Partnership with Open Source Asterisk Platform
Although Steve Ballmer insisted that Microsoft would continue to support Skype on non-Microsoft platforms when it acquired the VOIP…
Wed, 20 April 2011
Skype for Android Brings 3G Calling to U.S., Plus Security Fix
Skype released an update to its Android mobile application today which fixes the recently reported security issues in addition to bringing…
Tue, 15 March 2011
TellFi Brings Its Google Voice-like Service to Canada - Free for 1 Year
The Y Combinator-backed startup TellFi announced today that it was launching a virtual phone service that would give one year of free…
Mon, 14 March 2011
Skype Launches Qik Video Connect iPhone App
Once a competitor of Skype, the video-streaming company Qik was acquired by the VOIP giant in January. But it appears this hasn't ended the…
Sun, 6 March 2011
Skype for Windows Gets Ads
The popular VOIP service Skype will start displaying advertising in its Home tab beginning this week. The company has just announced the…
Sun, 27 February 2011
Skype in the Classroom Launches
As its major outage in December demonstrated, Skype bridges the personal and the professional, and many of us have come to rely on its…
Mon, 21 February 2011
Skype Hits New Record: Approaching 30 Million Concurrent Users
A record 29,527,474 people were logged into Skype all at the same time today, around noon PST. The new high is up 4.3% from the previous…
Wed, 26 January 2011
Skype for Mac Leaves Beta, Adds Premium Group Video Calling
Skype has just released a new version of its software for Mac. The beta version has been out for a few months now, and Skype says that it's…
Facebook Experimenting With Voice Calling
Last September, news broke that Facebook and VoIP service Skype were about to announce a "deep integration partnership" that would bring…
Tue, 25 January 2011
How to Port Your Number to Google Voice
Google officially announced today that, for a one-time $20 fee, Google Voice users could move their mobile phone number over to the…
Wed, 19 January 2011
Port Your Phone Number to Google Voice (Maybe)
Google is testing the option for Google Voice users to port their existing phone numbers to the company's Web-based telephony service…
Thu, 6 January 2011
Skype to Acquire Video-Streaming Company Qik for $100 Million
More signs today pointing to Skype's expansion: reports that the VOIP giant has acquired mobile video streaming company Qik for $100…
Report Finds Skype Now Accounts for About 25% of International Call Minutes
When Skype suffered a massive outage days before Christmas, the response - on Twitter, on Facebook, and in comments here on ReadWriteWeb…
Wed, 29 December 2010
Skype for iPhone Now Makes Video Calls
There have been rumors of video-calling coming to mobile versions of Skype for the last week or so, and now it's official: the popular VOIP…
Tue, 28 December 2010
Skype Says Bug in Windows Client Responsible for Last Week's Outage
We knew that last week's major Skype outage was caused by a problem with "supernodes," and now Skype CIO Lars Rabbe has provided more…
Wed, 22 December 2010
Skype Outage Continues - Why it Happened
Yesterday's widespread Skype outage continues today, according to an official update posted early this morning to Skype's company blog. As…
