Say hello to The Poor Man’s Ryan Seacrest. NBC late night host Carson Daly, who cut his broadcasting teeth as the first VJing host of MTV’s now-defunct video countdown show Total Request Live, will host The Peacock’s new singing competition, The Voice. The latest addition to NBC’s primetime network is inspired by the Dutch talent [...]
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Input Text and Output Voice – The Power of Computer Voice Generator Posted By : Thomas Carson
January 29th, 2011 |
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Computer voice generator software can convert any written text into spoken words. You can also convert text into audio files. And there are many benefits of computer voice generator software that you don’t know.
Optimizing Your Word Pronunciation Text to Voice Utility Within One Minute Posted By : Thomas Carson
January 29th, 2011 |
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Improve the prosody and pronunciation of text to voice translation by making a custom pronunciation correction list. A frequently used pronunciation correction list included.
Google Buys SayNow to Boost Google Voice
January 26th, 2011 |
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Google purchases communications software provider SayNow, which bakes calling capabilities into Android, iPhone, Facebook and Twitter. – Google confirmed Jan. 25 that it has acquired SayNow, a signal that the company wants to bring social
applications into its Google Voice phone management platform.
quot;SayNow will work closely with the Google Voice team, but we don’t have
any specific plans to announce at this time, quot; a Goo…
Google Voice Number Portability May Not Spur Adoption
January 26th, 2011 |
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Google Voice users will have the option to port their mobile phone number in the coming weeks. The service costs $20 for U.S. users only, but will it boost adoption of the service? – Google on Jan.
25 officially made number portability part of its Google Voice repertoire,
allowing users to take their longtime mobile phone number to the phone-management
service.
Google
Voice is a phone-management application that lets any user route all their
landlines, work and mobile call…
“Golden Voice†Ted Williams Leaves Rehab
January 24th, 2011 |
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Golden Voice is back on The Good Stuff. In news that will surprise absolutely no one, Ted Williams — the troubled homeless man with the voice of an award-winning radio announcer — has checked himself out of a Texas treatment center just two weeks into a 30-day trip to rehab. Ted is headed back to [...]
Google Voice to Offer Number Portability for $20
January 20th, 2011 |
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Google Voice is getting number portability for $20, according to several bloggers who spotted the option in their Google Voice accounts. Google said it is testing the feature. – Google is testing a number portability for its Google
Voice application that will let users use their personal mobile phone numbers
as the digits through which to route all calls for $20.
Google Voice is a phone management application that lets any user route all of
their landline, work and mobi…
Voice Virtualization High on SMB Agendas: Survey
January 20th, 2011 |
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Ninety percent of survey respondents said virtualization will take on greater importance in their network in 2011. – In the future, mobile phones will dominate, with businesses moving
to a quot;bring your own device quot; strategy and voice virtualization will
take on more importance in business’ networks, according to survey
results taken by business communications and collaboration software and
services pro…
Ted Williams Rehab
January 12th, 2011 |
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Golden Voice just pulled “A Lohan…..” Ted Williams’ radio voice helped make him the biggest viral star to hit the web since Antoine Dodson spazzed out on those nasty “Bed Intruders,” but instant infamy have made coping with old vices even more of a challenge for the admitted drug addict and alcoholic. That’s why he’s [...]
“Golden Voice†Ted Williams Picked Up By Cops As FOX Station Searches For “America’s Next Top Homeless Person!â€
January 11th, 2011 |
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Oh Ted….. Ted Williams, the formerly homeless viral star who captivated the web with his “golden radio voice,†was detained by the authorities Monday night after police responded to a disturbance at a Los Angeles hotel, Entertainment Tonight reported overnight. The new voice of Kraft and his grown daughter were detained around 9 PM PT [...]
Ted Williams, Homeless Man Golden Radio Voice, On “The TODAY Showâ€
January 6th, 2011 |
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Don’t you just love a success story? The new year is shaping up to be an extraordinary one for Ted Williams. A homeless panhandler who lost everything due to addiction, Ted’s luck has drastically changed overnight after a video showcasing his exceptional radio voice went viral on Monday. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, [...]
How to Avoid Robotic Voice Text to Speech Synthesis Posted By : Thomas Carson
January 3rd, 2011 |
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The best list of text to speech voices available on the Internet. Nowadays, more and more people use text to speech software to improve their reading efficiency and save time. As an important component of the text to speech technology, voices, i.e. speech engines, are the soul of text to speech software. Because text to speech software must invoke them to synthetic speech.
Google Voice Gmail Calling Now Free Through 2011
December 21st, 2010 |
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Google is making its Google Voice-based Gmail calling feature available to all users free in the U.S. through 2011. Merry Christmas. – Google Dec. 20 said it will continue to make its Gmail
calling capability free through 2011, a sign that the company wants to make
sure more of its Webmail users embrace the technology.
Google launched its Call Phones from Gmail feature in August, leveraging the company’s
popular Google Voice ph…
Get Personal with Voice Search
December 16th, 2010 |
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Cast your mind back to a couple of years ago when Google first launched Voice Search. When they did, they wanted it to work perfectly. And it did; for the most part. Voice Search works pretty well because it was made with speech models that allow for a wide variety of inflections, without taking gender, [...]
Google Uses Your Speech to Personalize Voice Search
December 15th, 2010 |
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Google Dec. 14 began letting users link Voice Search queries made from their Android 2.2 smartphones to their Google Accounts. The idea is to boost recognition accuracy. – Google Dec. 14 said it is offering to link queries users speak into their Android smartphones to their Google Accounts to improve speech recognition for that user over time.
It’s called personalized recognition and it represents a
graduation of Voice Search, which has become a popular search app …
Google Voice App Fuels Apple iPad, iPod touch
December 15th, 2010 |
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Google upgraded the Google Voice application it wrote for the iPhone to enable phone-management capabilities on Apple’s iPad and iPod touch. – Google Dec. 14 said it augmented its Google Voice phone-management
application for the iPhone to run on Apple’s iPad and iPod touch.
U.S. users
may download the new version of Google Voice to send and receive free text
messages and enjoy voice mail transcription, listen to live messages left on
…
Microsoft Plans for Voice, Gesture Go Beyond Xbox Kinect
December 1st, 2010 |
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Microsoft’s plans for voice, touch, and gesture-activated controls extend beyond Xbox Kinect and Windows Phone 7. – Xbox Kinect and Windows Phone 7 are just the beginning of
Microsofts push into natural user interfaces, according to discussions with
company executives. Plans include baking touch, gesture, and voice-activated
technology into products ranging from video games to vehicles.
Ilya Bukshteyn, senior…
INSIDE MOBILE: Voice Recognition in Mobile Phones
November 29th, 2010 |
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Sophisticated voice recognition technology is now available to process spoken commands and convert speech to text in your mobile phone. Here, Knowledge Center mobile and wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy discusses the real convenience benefits of today’s voice recognition technology in mobile phones. – Companies such as Nuance, Vlingo, Yap and others have developed some sophisticated technology to process spoken commands and convert speech to text in your mobile phone. The following seven statements are the kind of commands that new mobile voice recognition applications can do, or will soon be abl…
Emma Watson says voice in her head is responsible for her darkest times
November 23rd, 2010 |
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Harry Potter star Emma Watson has revealed that she has faced ‘dark times’ due to a ‘voice in her head’. Worth more than 20 million pounds, the Harry Potter actress has proved box office magic but despite her youthful success the 20-year-old has had crippling doubts about her talents. “I’ve had dark times, this voice [...]