IBM and Honda team-up to improve speech recognization system
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IBM and Honda have teamed-up and developed a hands-free and natural sounding in-vehicle speech recognization system. This system will be integrated in Honda&#39;s Acura RL 2005 model and will be offered as an optional accessory in Honda Odyssey 2005 model.
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The networks used to monitor vehicle performance will be able to speak more clearly with Bluetooth devices, enabling your mobile phone or music player to get cozy with your car. In Autopia.
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New voice recognition program, shown at Macworld Expo, borrows technology from Dragon Naturally Speaking.
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On Wednesday SAP moved one step closer to voice-enabling its applications by signing a deal with VoiceObjects, a developer of voice application management systems.
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(InfoWorld) - Forget Web service orchestration: IBM is getting into something a lot more fun. The company has worked with Japanese karaoke equipment maker XingÂ to develop a new type of wireless karaoke controller. People in bars and restaurants can use the controller to scroll through thousands of songs listed by artist, song or category, and choose the one they want by touching the screen, IBM said. The device sends the information over a Wi-Fi network to Xing's "karaoke command center," which cues up the song. Most karaoke systems today require people to leaf through a big catalog of songs and then type a corresponding number into a device. That can be difficult in a dark and crowded bar, especially after a second drink. The new controller comes in two models: the Kyoku-NAVI II and Kyoku-NAVI S. It is shock-proof and water-resistant, and can also be used to place food and drink orders. They'll be on sale in Japan starting in early November, IBM said. Pricing hasn't been announced. IBM has worked with Xing (pronounced ex-sing) on karaoke products for about two years, and this is the second set of controllers they've designed together, said June Namioka, an IBM spokeswoman in Japan. Xing approached IBM for the joint project because it has a long history designing portable products in Japan, including its ThinkPad notebooks, now owned by Lenovo, Namioka said. The storage and search capabilities come from IBM's DB2 Everyplace, a version of its database designed to be embedded in devices. The controllers are for use with two new Karaoke centers announced by Xing last month. Xing, a subsidiary of Brother Industries, has no plans to sell the devices outside of Japan, Namioka said. They will be sold by Xing, and not by IBM, she emphasized. "We're not getting into the karaoke market."
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TechWeb - IBM unveils its solution for company's looking for technology to deal with the &quot;data tsunami&quot; from sensors and radio frequency identification tags.
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IBM&#39;s Canada Division has announced a new feature in selected models of their Thinkpad T42 series of notebook computers - a fingerprint reader for enhanced security measures.
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The Universidad de los Andes in Chile selected IBM (NYSE: IBM) to implement a Cisco IP Telephony solution, making communication at the university more reliable and flexible while reducing costs.
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Devices that incorporate speech recognition are starting to hit the mass market, giving users the ability to let their mouths do the walking -- and the searching.
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In a step toward linking a person&#039;s thoughts to machines, Japanese automaker Honda said it has developed a technology that uses brain signals to control a robot&#039;s very simple moves.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has contributed a new social computing software called 'Many Eyes' for use during the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development) World Forum on Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies, this week in Istanbul.
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Honda Motor Co., with help from partner IBM Corp., is preparing to introduce an improved speech-recognition system that will allow drivers to get voice navigation guidance without having to manually punch in any information or take their
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The software, developed by IBM&#39;s new Sensors and Actuators business unit, is designed to help businesses collect and act on data from RFID and other sensor-based technology.
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WAKO, Japan  - Honda Motor Co.'s humanoid robot  has been around: he's rung the famed bell at the New York Stock  Exchange, met Spain's king, and even traveled with Japan's  prime minister to Prague as a goodwill ambassador.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM and Cisco will announce today at the Spring 2007 VoiceCon conference in Orlando, Florida, a joint effort to create an industrywide unified communications and collaboration platform. The expectation is that a single open platform, rather than a potpourri of platforms offered by multiple vendors, will entice a large number of developers to design communications services for the enterprise. In the first step toward that end, IBM and Cisco have pledged to base the new platform, called UC2 (Unified Communication and Collaboration), on Eclipse and OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative) technologies. In addition, both companies unveiled a series of upcoming offerings jointly developed by the two companies using an open set of APIs from Lotus's Sametime collaboration application and communication APIs from Cisco. Among the solutions planned for later this year are click-to-call and voice mail integration to allow Sametime users to send instant messages to and from Cisco Unified IP phones. Another jointly developed offering will include federated presence information, call history conferencing, and video telephony. The federated presence solution will take information stored in Cisco's IP network, such as availability and location, and share that information with a Sametime client. "If you are looking at a Sametime client, you can see if the phone is not busy and if the person is in, say, building 21 on the third floor," said Barry O'Sullivan, vice president of IP Communications at Cisco. According to Adam Gartenberg, offering manager for the UC2 Software division of IBM Lotus Software Group, the growth of unified communications services has been impeded by a lack of a consistent programming environment. On the other hand, the ubiquity of Eclipse will encourage the large Eclipse community of developers to design communications services that extend the client capabilities of ERP and CRM applications to remote users. "The UC2 platform is extensible, allowing developers to create plug-ins or mini applications to access applications remotely," said Gartenberg. For example, a developer might extend an expense approval application in SAP by creating an applet that makes it available in an instant messaging environment. There is also no doubt that enterprise-level companies are eager to see what unified communications can do for them. Ray Repic, chief technical architect at Coca-Cola Enterprises, says he likes the idea of leveraging his existing technology to create incremental value. Repic already uses Lotus SameTime and Cisco's IP telephony. "There's nothing we need to purchase," said Repic. In addition Repic said he is eager to get it up into Coca Cola's prototyping lab.Â  "We need to understand how we can use voice as an application," Repic said. As part of the announcement, Cisco also said that it will develop future versions of its Unified Personal Communicator on the new UC2 client platform. Also planned is a certification program to certify that the solutions developed on UC2 platform meet the specifications laid out by IBM and Cisco. However, despite the cooperation between Cisco and IBM and the stated reasons for it, analysts see Microsoft as the elephant in the room.Â  "The unified communications battle will come down to Cisco versus Microsoft," said Yankee Group analyst Zeus Kerravala. Some users have held off on the technology because they are waiting to see what Microsoft will do with it, he said. Meanwhile, Nortel Networks, which last year announced a partnership with Microsoft in this area, hasn't ended up with much of an advantage that other telephony vendors don't have, Kerravala said.
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The Sensor and Actuator Solutions group will create services and software related to RFID systems. By Laurie Sullivan. IBM has created the Sensor and Actuator Solutions group to support devices such as those used in radio-frequency identification setups.
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IBM is introducing a line of radio-frequency identification services for midmarket companies that are based on practices that have been honed by IBM itself at its facilities for more than a year.