August 2007 - Posts
When we first started coming up with ideas for session topics for this year's Conversations, an interesting possibility began to emerge. The possibility of an executive track at Conversations. So, would an executive track be well attended? Would enough attendees, in fact, be too executive for their shirts? So executive it hurts?
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For those of you who have been following this blog, or speech recognition in general, you may be interested in attending a web presentation that I'm giving on Tuesday at 11am PDT/2pm CDT, sponsored by the good folks at ICMI and Customer Management Insight. The webinar is called, "Speech Mythbusters: Debunking 10 Common Myths about Voice Automation" and it's free to attend.
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It's always nice to receive validation that you're not just blowing smoke up people's... ahem, noses... A recent poll showed that there's some truth to my previous blog post about the iPhone lacking speech recognition.
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Those of you outside of American politics in the 90's may not recognize the idiom from this blog's title, but sometimes I think it holds true for this year's Conversations conference. So I'm here to say that we haven't forgotten that "It's the Technology, Stupid"... that some people do care about Nuance's speech technology as much as Nuance's solutions.
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Okay, okay, let's tackle this one. You're telling your boss that you'd like to attend Conversations... and your boss takes one look at the site and says, wait, you're going away for three days to spend time at a resort in Florida? Tell your boss: damn straight!
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