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Texas A&M Transportation Institute Study. Yeah they found that using Siri or Vlingo was as dangerous as texting while driving. Adam Cheyer hit the nail on the head in his response But Adam focused on Siri…Turns out they didn’t use Vlingo in the In Car mode, which was of course designed for In Car. Duh! Vlingo’s (now Nuance) In Car…

(…and something new from Sensory just around the corner!) I remember watching the Superbowl last year and seeing a BMW Series 3 commercial that I thought was interesting. It was interesting to me because they put a motion/proximity sensor under the trunk so the user could open the trunk in a hands-free manner. The commercial highlights the benefit of hands-free…

I’ve been going to CES for about 30 years now. More than half of that has been with Sensory selling speech recognition. This year I reminisced with Jeff Rogers (Sensory’s VP Sales who has been at Sensory almost as long as me) about Sensory’s first CES back in 1995 where we walked around with briefcases that said “Ask Me About…

I really enjoyed reading this article interviewing Vlad Sejnoha, Nuance’s CTO. Most people would consider Nuance the leader in speech recognition today, and Vlad is certainly a very smart, thoughtful, and articulate man. I enjoyed it for a few different reasons. The first and main reason I liked the article is it helps to push the idea Sensory has been…

Android JellyBean Speech Recognition. It’s REALLY REALLY awesome. I thought all those video comparisons with Siri must be staged, but I’ve been using it and it’s very fast and very accurate and reasonably intelligent. My only criticism is in their marketing. First of all where’s the Mike LeBeau video? And what’s it called? Google Now? Google Voice? Google Voice Actions?…