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 Posted: Mon Aug 10 2009 2:13 pm Post subject: [News] Patent Parasite SpinVox Might Also be Corrupt |
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SpinVox examines dossier claims
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| Voice-to-text company SpinVox is under pressure after a dossier, alleging
| financial irregularities, was circulated to shareholders.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/....263.stm
Patentability and Democracy in Europe
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| In July 2005, after several failed attempts to legalise software patents in
| Europe, the patent establishment changed its strategy. Instead of explicitely
| seeking to sanction the patentabilitty of software, they are now seeking to
| create a central European patent court, which would establish and enforce
| patentability rules in their favor, without any possibility of correction by
| competing courts or democratically elected legislators.
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Recent:
Spinvox Tries To Patent Dictation?
http://techdirt.com/arti....4.shtml
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11 2009 3:25 am Post subject: Re: [News] Patent Parasite SpinVox Might Also be Corrupt |
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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SpinVox examines dossier claims
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| Voice-to-text company SpinVox is under pressure after a dossier,
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This story is actually quite funny. It was more than "financial
irregularities. It is alleged that they faked ASR (automatic speech
recognition) results by having the voice transmissions relayed to call
centres outside of Europe and being transcribed there by humans and then
sent back as the results of their software.
As for the patents, assuming they are using stochastic methods (HMM's and
the like) these areas have been patented to death. Having worked in the
field (ASR) and still doint it to some extent, I doubt very much they'll
have a usable system with that kind of approach.
Attila
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11 2009 6:30 am Post subject: Re: [News] Patent Parasite SpinVox Might Also be Corrupt |
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After takin' a swig o' grog, Attila belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
SpinVox examines dossier claims
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| Voice-to-text company SpinVox is under pressure after a dossier,
| alleging financial irregularities, was circulated to shareholders.
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This story is actually quite funny. It was more than "financial
irregularities. It is alleged that they faked ASR (automatic speech
recognition) results by having the voice transmissions relayed to call
centres outside of Europe and being transcribed there by humans and then
sent back as the results of their software.
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All they need now is a "computer" big enough to hold a midget.
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As for the patents, assuming they are using stochastic methods (HMM's and
the like) these areas have been patented to death. Having worked in the
field (ASR) and still doint it to some extent, I doubt very much they'll
have a usable system with that kind of approach.
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'Sup blood, whaya talkin'? Ain' no way we ain't gonna just damn nail dat
speech re-cog-nition wif are soffware, money! Sheee!
Ever listen to some Trinidadians on the soccer field? Talk right to you, no
problem. Eavesdrop, and you can't tell at all what they're saying, though
you know it is English.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11 2009 7:29 am Post subject: Re: [News] Patent Parasite SpinVox Might Also be Corrupt |
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On 2009-08-11, Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@launchmodem.com> wrote:
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Ever listen to some Trinidadians on the soccer field? Talk right to you, no
problem. Eavesdrop, and you can't tell at all what they're saying, though
you know it is English.
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You'd have the same problem with Australians. It doesn't go the other
way though. We get too much American Television.
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Gregory.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11 2009 12:16 pm Post subject: Re: [News] Patent Parasite SpinVox Might Also be Corrupt |
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On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:25:09 +0200, Attila wrote:
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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SpinVox examines dossier claims
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| Voice-to-text company SpinVox is under pressure after a dossier,
| alleging financial irregularities, was circulated to shareholders.
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This story is actually quite funny.
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Story aside, SpinVox is a pretty kool name for a company.
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