Barclays brings on Nuance to set up voice-recognition for phone banking

09 May, 2013, 9:44 am IST Nishtha Kanal General

Pins and security questions are old stuff. Barclays Wealth now recognises a customer’s voice within 30 seconds of a phone call to grant them More

Amazon reportedly buys voice assistant app Evi for $26 million

18 Apr, 2013, 3:10 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Apps

How can Amazon be too far away when Apple and Google are all going the personal assistant way? Reports have it that Amazon has bought Evi... More

Adobe working on image editing app you can talk to

13 Feb, 2013, 2:01 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Apps

Ever wondered how easy it would be to edit images if your application could actually hear you out? You use extensive tools and spend hours trying to create More

Amazon buys speech-recognition company Ivona

25 Jan, 2013, 11:18 am IST Apps

Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday that it acquired speech-recognition company Ivona Software, a sign the world's largest Internet retailer may... More

Google Search results page gets more 'breathing room'

07 Nov, 2012, 6:12 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Web services

The appearance has been refreshed to focus more on answers that users are looking for, be it from web results or from a feature such as the Knowledge Graph. More

Google Search app for iOS enhanced with voice search

31 Oct, 2012, 10:03 am IST tech2 News Staff iOS

Competition for Siri has arrived. Google recently released the Search app with voice search for iOS devices. More

Research finds way to detect Parkinson's using Siri-like software

26 Jun, 2012, 6:21 pm IST Anuradha Shetty iOS

The early diagnosis of the symptoms of the Parkinson's disease, a degenerative disorder of the central ... More