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alexbelov

Google's answer to Amazon's Echo is code-named 'Chirp' and is landing soon - Recode - 0 views

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shared by alexbelov on 12 May 16 - No Cached
  • A product team at Google is working on a hardware device that would integrate Google's search and voice assistant technology, akin to the Amazon Echo
  • a portable speaker with voice assistant tech
  • voice search and intelligent personal assistance will occupy center stage at the company's splash show
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  • And Echo is collecting the type of data — what consumers search for, listen to and buy, and how they talk to machines — that Google loves. Amazon has long been considered a big threat to Google's core business as web and mobile app users go to the online retailer for product searches.
  • alexbelov on 12 May 16
     
    Google is working on an intelligent voice assistant device for home.
Maria Gurova

Pixar Vets Reinvent Speech Recognition So It Works for Kids | WIRED - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 26 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Though characters like Woody and Buzz Lightyear are wonderfully realistic and lovable, the relationship that kids have with them is largely one-sided. Kids can hear these characters talk—not only through movies, but games, toys, and other movie merchandise—but they can’t engage them.
  • It was this idea that inspired Jacob to team up with his former Pixar colleague, Martin Reddy, and launch a new company, ToyTalk. The San Francisco-based outfit develops mobile games that let kids have conversations with animated characters—dialogues that can last for hours
  • Known as PullString, it’s equal parts speech recognition engine and script writing tool, and it’s quite a departure from other speech rec tools developed by the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Apple. It’s tailored specifically to kids, whose sentence structure, pitch, and vocal tone have posed challenges for traditional tools.
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  • “The way kids talk and communicate is very different from how adults do, both in terms of how they use language and the fundamental frequencies that come out of their throats,
  • But as he points out, the way today’s children use technology will likely dictate the tech landscape for decades to come. If you can get kids hooked on speech technology young, they’ll stay with it forever.
  • Kids don’t want to ask a monkey character in a game what the weather will be on Tuesday. They want to sing him a song or ask him about life in the zoo.
  • While ToyTalk uses existing third party technology for its raw speech recognition, it works with those partners to develop better recognition models using ToyTalk’s own data. Now, ToyTalk has a trove of some 20 million children’s utterances, which Jacob believes is the largest database of kids conversation in the world
  • “Virtual assistants are awesome when they can answer every question. In our case, it’s the opposite,” Jacob says. “I have to know a lot of things that I’m not able to answer, and redirect the conversation to something that is within character.”
  • And Jacob says some toy companies are already testing PullString to power apps based on existing characters.
  • this technology could give kids a whole new way to play that falls somewhere in between the playground and the imaginary friend. “I think at some deep level if we succeed, we’ll inspire the imagination of kids to talk about things they might not otherwise talk about,”
  • Maria Gurova on 26 Sep 14
     
    the voice rec technology developed by ex-Pixar guy that is targeted to kids. It considers all nuances of kids speech behavior and analyses millions of kids conversations to make interaction with favorite characters within all possible media truly engaging
evgeny lavrov

HowStuffWorks "Top 5 Ways We'll Have Fun in 2050" - 0 views

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  • we won't need to teach children how to read and
  • write, but rather how to use computers and think creatively
  • world in which we all use voice-in, voice-out (VIVO) computers
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  • vast swaths of the population will be illiterate
  • interact with it via virtual realit
  • With this technology, your children will be able to interact with their favorite fuzzy friends by inviting them into the living room to dance around
  • we'll be able to meet up with friends and family around the world thanks to hologram technology
Maria Gurova

The Future of Kids TV: A MIPTV Report | Animation World Network - 4 views

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  • Maria Gurova on 28 Aug 14
     
    3.  New Characters for kids Talking Friends" - pet apps.  Repeats your voice "squeaky version"  1.5 billion views.  Talking Tom Cats" - Talking Tom stars in Disney's newest show, 3 min. short each week. Clumsy Ninja" - progressive game where Ninja gets less clumsy as he goes along.  Kids spend hours and hours …
Maria Gurova

Jennifer Pahlka at TED [Video] | Code for America - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 26 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Maria Gurova on 26 Jul 13
     
    please watch this great TED talk about how not to give up on government. And how not just to be heard and have the voice, but also to do something for your community with your own hands. What kind of citizens we want our kids do be?
alexbelov

Audible's new Channels audio content subscription service is a bet on a voice-powered f... - 0 views

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shared by alexbelov on 08 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • Amazon-owned Audible announced a new service called Channels today, one that differs from its typical audiobook business in offering more bite-size content from original content producers, as well as recordings of news stores from NYT, WSJ, The Washington Post and others. The original programming will be rolling out over time, covering comedy, investigatory journalism (think Serial) and talk shows – which is really Amazon applying the Netflix/Prime Originals model to audio content.
  • The potential Amazon and Audible sees in Channels is the same potential that many others have been picking up on in podcasts. Podcasts present a way to provide multi-genre, opt-in entertainment to consumers with relatively low cost of entry, and unlike most other types of media, it can be consumed concurrent with other activities.
  • alexbelov on 08 Jul 16
     
    Amazon-owned Audible announced a new service called Channels today, one that differs from its typical audiobook business in offering more bite-size content from original content producers, as well as recordings of news stores from NYT, WSJ, The Washington Post and others. The original programming will be rolling out over time, covering comedy, investigatory journalism (think Serial) and talk shows. It's similar to podcasts, which provide multi-genre, opt-in entertainment to consumers with low cost of entry, consumed concurrent with other activities.
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

Rising Seas Threaten Low-Lying Coastlines | Ecology Global Network - 0 views

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shared by Ekaterina Yanovskaya on 24 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • The inexorable rise of the waters of the earth’s oceans since 1880 has already contributed almost 20 cm (nearly a foot) since 1880, and more recently the rise continues at an accelerating pace . The IPCC (2007) predicts an increase of sea level of between 0.5 to 1.5 m by the year 2100
  • Island nations under threat include Bermuda and the Bahamas in the Atlantic, the Pacific Islands of Palmerston, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Marshall Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Solomon Islands, and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean
  • in terms of numbers of persons impacted, the oceanic islands pale in comparison with the slow-motion disasters that will occur in densely populated, low-lying coastal cities like New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore, Jakarta and Dhaka.
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  • The extraordinary warming of 2.5°C (4.5°F) over the past 50 years on the Antarctic Peninsula is both the world’s greatest temperature change and least opportune venue for warming on the planet. Warmer air and currents penetrating deep into West Antarctica could initiate collapse of the marine based West Antarctic Ice Sheet ice sheet (Joughin and Alley, 2011), rapidly elevating global seas by as much as 3-6 meters.
Maria Gurova

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shared by Maria Gurova on 25 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Maria Gurova on 25 Feb 15
     
    a good piece on how the text communication might transform in the near future and why texting might remain a more comfortable way to interact with the device then voice
isoldatenkova

Spotify Shares Fall on Report Amazon in Talks to Launch Ad-Supported Music Offering - T... - 0 views

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shared by isoldatenkova on 16 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • Amazon.com Inc was in talks to launch a free ad-supported music service, which is expected to intensify competition for the music streaming leader.
  • Amazon would market the free music service through its voice-activated Echo speakers, a Billboard report said on Friday, adding that it could become available as early as this week.
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