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Obama's Acceptance Speech, Palin Veep Shocker

As has been the case with every major speech of this year's Democratic National Convention, each blogger seems to have a different take on Barack Obama's speech. Liberal bloggers say that the speech either met or exceeded expectations (not an easy feat) and that Obama was "wonderfully successful" in his delivery and presentation of key themes. Chris Cillizza said it was "more substance than style," and David Kusnet at the New Republic thought it was Ronald Reaganesque. Some other liberals thought it was a bit of a letdown, "uneven in delivery," and too long. Although most bloggers noted the comprehensive and detailed nature of the speech, the AP reported "a lack of specifics," to the shock of liberal bloggers. On the conservative side, a National Review blogger had a long list of positives and negatives while another thought it was pretty

Tensilica Adds AMR WB+ Audio / Speech Decoder and Encoder to HiFi 2 Audio Processor Software Library

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – September 16, 2008 – Tensilica, Inc. today announced that it has added the AMR WB+ audio / speech decoder and encoder to the software library for its HiFi 2 audio processor. The AMR WB+ (Adaptive Multi Rate Wideband plus) speech codec improves on the available AMR Wideband speech codec by adding support for stereo signals and higher sampling rates, providing higher quality at low bit rates.

Loquendo Makes Speech Recognition and Text to Speech Available for iPhone 3G

Speech technologies provider Loquendo is making it even easier for developers of multimedia applications for the Apple (News - Alert) iPhone 3G to leverage their solutions.

Virginia High Court Wrong About IP Addresses

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state's anti-spam law, which prohibits the sending of bulk e-mail using falsified or forged headers, violates the First Amendment because it also applies to non-commercial political or religious speech. I agree that an anti-spam law should not outlaw anonymous non-commercial speech. But the decision contains statements about IP addresses, domain names, and anonymity that are rather basically wrong, and which may enable the state to win on appeal. The two basic errors are: concluding that anonymous speech on the Internet requires forged headers or other falsified information (and therefore that a ban on forged headers is an unconstitutional ban on anonymous speech), and assuming that use of forged headers actually does conceal the IP addres

Nuance Acquires Philips Speech-Recognition Business

Speech-recognition software vendor Nuance Communications has acquired Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics' Speech Recognition Systems, PSRS, unit for 66m euros ($96.1m) to strengthen its presence in the European healthcare market.

Philips sells speech activities to Nuance

Royal Philips Electronics has sold its speech recognition activities, Philips Speech Recognition Systems (PSRS), to US-based Nuance Communications.

Philips Speech sold to Nuance

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands and BURLINGTON, Mass. – Royal Philips Electronics announced that it has sold its speech recognition division, Philips Speech Recognition Systems, to U.S.-based Nuance Communications, Inc.

President Yaradua Independent Speech ...Orchestra Of Deception By Failed Regime

Conference of Nigeria Political Parties {CNPP}, after a careful analysis of President Umaru Yaradua’s independent speech, regrettably rates the speech as an orchestra of deception emanating from a failed regime.

The Art and Craft of the Political Speech

Viewers watching the convention gavel to gavel see speech after speech, a few which have incredible impact, and many that have little at all. Below the surface, whether you care or not when someone leaves the stage is the result of the failure or success of an elaborately choreographed dance between speakers, advisers, DNC officials and a whole slew of anonymous speechwriters seeking to make their mark.

Court Upholds Privacy Advocate's Right to Post Public Records on Website

Freedom of speech is protected in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights and is guaranteed to all Americans. Since 1920, the ACLU has worked to preserve our freedom of speech. Learn more and take action to protect the right to free speech.

Software Spots Spin In Political Speeches

T.S. Ackerman writes "According to an article in NewScientist Tech, there is now software that can identify the amount of spin in a politician or candidate's speech. From the article, 'Blink and you would have missed it. The expression of disgust on former US president Bill Clinton's face during his speech to the Democratic National Convention as he says "Obama" lasts for just a fraction of a second. But to Paul Ekman it was glaringly obvious. "Given that he probably feels jilted that his wife Hillary didn't get the nomination, I would have to say that the entire speech was actually given very gracefully," says Ekman, who has studied people's facial expressions and how they relate to what they are thinking for over 40 years.' The article goes on to analyze the amount of spin in each of the candidates running for president, and the results

Blog Buzz: Convention Speakers Are Finalized, McCain Plays the Celeb Card Again, and a New Group Warns Republican Donors

Hillary and Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney are officially scheduled to speak at the Democratic and Republican conventions (not together, of course—though that would certainly be, umm, interesting), despite weeklong reports of drama regarding their appearances. NBC News reported that Bill got the speaking role to quiet talk of Obama-Clinton drama, which Taylor Marsh thinks means the campaign is underestimating Bill Clinton's impact. Marc Ambinder points out that his speech won't be on network TV, but one blogger still thinks Bill's speech will be "scrutinized endlessly." As far as Hillary goes, one conservative blogger discussed the implications of her speech falling on Women's Equality Day, and Ben Smith thinks all eyes will be on her to see if she'll "try to lead some kind of insurrection.

Speech by Duncan Hindle, Director-General, Department of Education at the Unveiling of sculpture The dance of Learning and launch of the Annual Report

Speech by Duncan Hindle, Director-General, Department of Education at the Unveiling of sculpture The dance of Learning and launch of the Annual Report

Speech Writing: A Forgotten Art

"To me, speech writing is an art: a thing of great power and great delicacy," says professional speechwriter, Erin Leigh.

Obama Delivers Space Policy Speech in Florida

In a speech in Titusville, Florida, just outside of the Kennedy Space Center, Obama said he has told his staff to find another offset to fund his early education program. He has formally removed the statement that he would use money from the NASA Constellation program to pay for his plan. It has already been deleted from the documentation on his website.

Lord Bhattacharyya Predicts Hospital Robots In Speech On Receiving Indian Award

In his speech Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya made particular reference to how technology first developed for manufacturing processes was now increasingly being deployed in health care by research groups like WMG.

Nuance buys Philips Speech Recognition Systems

Philips has sold its Philips Speech Recognition Systems (PSRS) to US-based Nuance Communications for €66m ($96.1m).

Creaceed releases Vocalia speech recognition for iPhone

imageCreaceed has announced Vocalia, their English speech recognition tool for iPhone. Now available in the App Store, Vocalia is Creaceed’s first iPhone application. Relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbours, or even restaurants. They all are in our address books. Vocalia helps you quickly and easily find the person or company you want to call or send an email to. Creaceed plans to add other languages in the future.

Nuance takes over Philips Speech Recognition Systems

US company Nuance Communications, Inc. has acquired Philips Speech Recognition Systems (PSRS), a business unit of Royal Philips Electronics. The deal, worth

Nuance acquires Philips Speech Recognition, gains foothold in Europe

In a sign that Royal Philips Electronics may be refining its healthcare division, Nuance Communications has announced that it has acquired the Dutch electronic giant's Speech Recognition Systems business unit.

Google unblocks Scamp blog after 'hate speech' suspension

Google has unblocked Scamp, the UK's most popular advertising industry blog, following the removal of comments containing "hate speech".

Stumper TV: Fineman on Obama's Speech

The Partisans Loved It. So Did The Pundits. But What Did the Only Undecided Voter* in Mile High Stadium Think of Obama's Speech?

MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech

Naturalist recommends a piece up at Ars about a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the EFF, CDT, Public Citizen, and a group of 14 law professors in the case of Lori Drew, who posed as a teenage boy to harass another teen online, eventually driving her to suicide. (We've discussed the case a few times.) "[The amicus brief argues] that violating MySpace's Terms of Service agreement shouldn't be considered criminal offense under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The groups believe that if the mother, Lori Drew, is prosecuted using CFAA charges, the case could have significant ramifications for the free speech rights of US citizens using the Internet."

UK - IQ invests in Phonetic Arts

Phonetic Arts is developing a speech technology that will enable computer games to generate dynamic natural speech. The company plans to fully launch the technology later in 2008.

Nuance and Nokia signs multi-year agreement

Nuance Communications Inc (Nasdaq:NUAN), a provider of speech and predictive text solutions, and mobile communications company Nokia (NYSE: NOK) on Wednesday (8 October) announced that the companies have entered into a comprehensive multi-year agreement to deliver innovative mobile speech and predictive text capabilities across a broad range of Nokia mobile devices worldwide.

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