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by reddot 15y ago
The Nuance of today has little to nothing in common with the post-acquisition Nuance. It's really name-only at this point. Some of their speech technology has been incorporated into the Nuance 9 engine. There are some profesional services e
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by reddot 15y ago
Both are a problem. There is increasing evidence that eating meat causes many long term problems. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_meat#Health_risks ) Additionally, see the news in the US in the past few days that supposedly ~50% of meat
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by reddot 15y ago
Ah. That was unclear from your post. I know a few people who have gotten the Samsung Intercept on Virgin Mobile and are fairly unhappy with it. It feels really slow and the built-in apps aren't that great, according to my friends (especiall
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by reddot 15y ago
For free apps, the lock in is minimal. But if someone has an investment of $100 or however much in paid apps, that's another story.
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by reddot 15y ago
Don't forget that Apple usually sells the previous generation iPhone 8GB for cheaper. You can now get a 3GS for $50 on ATT. I still use a 3GS, and it's still a great phone.
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by reddot 15y ago
Wasn't that Rocky IV?
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by reddot 16y ago
MIT is doing some really interesting research into using crowd sourcing like mturk. Check it out: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/research.shtml#crowdcomp They are tackling tasks like extremely difficult OCR and collaborative editing and
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by reddot 16y ago
United tried to do the same thing with it's Ted ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_(airline) ) subsidiary.
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by reddot 16y ago
Speech recognition has steadily improved over the past 10 years. You can see a few examples: Android system wide speech input, Siri iPhone app (which Apple bought), Dragon Naturally Speaking advertises upwards of 99% accuracy for general pu
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by reddot 16y ago
I designed Airtran's telephone flight information system. I hope they keep it.... :)
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by reddot 16y ago
Can't you have everyone sign into the same account?