Category Archives: Gadgets We Like

Radio for the Deaf Takes Stage at CES

Here’s an interesting Voice to Text story from CES, where the first Closed-Captioned HD Radio for the Deaf was launched By NPR, Harris and Towson University.
Using capabilities that are part technology and part human typists, NPR broadcasts are transcribed in real time, with the text displayed on special receivers onscreen. Numerous receiver manufacturers are [...]

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Faves

Sometimes we don’t talk about ourselves here at the GotVoice blog, and instead focus on stuff we like.  We’ve been recently playing with Faves, which allows you to basically set up links to your favorite web sites and share them with your friends.
It’s a neat way to share things you like, and here’s an example [...]

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Our Facebook Group – Cool Apps For Mobile Phones

If you like to talk about cool mobile gadgets, make sure to join our Facebook Group called Cool Apps For Mobile Phones. You can promote, debate, comment on, praise or ask questions about any mobile application here. And you make even make some new friends in the process.
You need a Facebook account to [...]

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Homemade Metal Detector

Ok, don’t tell the investors, but no work was done in the GotVoice offices from 10:00-10:15am today as we tested this little homemade metal detector out.  And to be honest, it’s actually quite a nice little app for finding some of our testing phones, which unfortunately get lost a little too often around here.
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      Hello to all GotVoice users and lovers! During one of our maintenance windows this morning, we had a brief system outage, so you might not have received your voicemail transcriptions as quickly as usual. Ooops. We’re sorry. We have fixed the issue, but we know how important your voicemail is to you and how annoying it is [...] […]
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      If you’ve ever left a blabbering voicemail after which you hung up, thinking, “Wow, I really sounded like an idiot,” just relax with this little bit of schadenfreude. It could have been worse. You could have been like this guy: Thanks to David Wygant’s dating blog for the link to this video. His advice is good [...] […]
    • How Google Voice revolutionized the voice to text transcription market
      With GotVoice’s voicemail transcription offerings, it would have been easy to see Google Voice as competition. Never mind the tiny fact that those who compete with Google rarely win, anyway; it’s more to the point that Google Voice actually did a huge service for the entire voice to text marketplace. When Google Voice first came out, [...] […]
    • Join us at CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas
      It seems like we’re just back from Barcelona, and now we are packing us again to exhibit at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas, March 23-25, 2010! Once again, we’ll be teaming up with Acision, the internationally leader in SMS messaging, at stand 2917. We’ll be branded as Spoken Communications in the Partner [...] […]
    • Mobile World Congress, Day 3
      Here at Spoken, today was primarily booked with meetings with current and potential partners. What’s really nifty about Spoken’s primary technology is that, while it was developed to support efficiency and customer service in call center, the principle of having a human Silent Guide can be applied to just about ANY service in which voice [...] […]
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