Sensory Blog

I decided to pop up to San Francisco this week to hit the Intel Developer Forum. It’s open to the public, but it’s really more of a show and tell to Intel employees than from them. One of the sessions was entitled "Enhanced Experiences with Low Power Speech Recognition," and this was my main reason for being there. Intel’s Devon…

I’ll continue on with a few thoughts from yesterday’s blog because I got asked the question: “Why would speech patents be worth so much more than general telecom and other patents?” There are 2 key reasons: Speech is HUGE in mobile. Look at Google/Android. I read in the Mercury News this week that Google believes 80% of its revenues will…

Two BIG acquisitions happened over the last week. One is big for the smartphone space, and the other is big for the speech industry. I think they both had something to do with technology patents. Google acquired Motorola. As everyone knows, Google has been wrapped up in a lot of legal feuds over Android. Android is certainly doing well, its…

I recently learned about 2 awards that Sensory has won over the past year. The contrast is in how we learned about them, and the different nature of these awards. It’s really amusing, so I thought I’d share my take. Both awards were for our TrulyHandsfree™ Voice Control. One was for the significance of Sensory’s truly hands-free trigger in implementing…

I have a new favorite toy. It’s Watson the Raccoon, one of Hallmark's new Interactive Storybook and Story Buddy™ characters. I used to have the time to buy every product that featured one of Sensory's technologies. I have to admit I don’t do that much anymore, and as my kids have gotten older, I buy fewer and fewer toys in…