How to build really robust speech to text technology
Boy, this is interesting:
The reason we really did it is because we need to build a great speech-to-text model … that we can use for all kinds of different things, including video search.
Google developed Goog 411 to train their speech to text technology. Via Waxy who remarked it is a neat idea but seems [...]
knol.com
I’ll probably post more on Knol soon, but my immediate observation about the announcement was…”Doh! Who forgot to check the .com domain was available?”
I reckon this Industrial Vacuum Company will be getting lots of traffic in the near future. Whoops.
Seth Godin comments on Search
I have read every one of Seth Godin’s books (I even went way out of my way to meet him once at a blogger meetup in London). He’s a terrific marketer and normally you can’t fault his observations, but in a recent post about Googles announcement of Knol he makes some very odd comments about the nature [...]
Writers Strike…
UPDATE: A characteristically insightful post from Bubblegeneration explaining why the writers strike is dragging on…
Ultimately, it’s because boardrooms still don’t have a clue about how or why media and consumer economics are in shock…read the rest.
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My parents still have a VCR! They’ve only got one tape mind you, an old copy of Top Gun recorded [...]
Sweet photo editing features in Flickr
This news about tight Flickr and Picnik integration is awesome. I reckon Picnik must be one of the coolest untalked about web apps around, and it is amazing they havn’t had more press. I’ve been using them for a few months now and only yesterday signed up for a premium membership which I can now [...]