No cloud server or messaging system is completely secure: Just ask Hillary Clinton. Even though these systems are protected with layers of security, these layers can be hacked. Brute force attacks can crack passwords. MITM attacks using tools like sslstrip can turn secure sessions into insecure HTTP sessions. And outright manipulation of human confidence can […]
The Intelligent Voice team participated in the latest annual NVidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2016) held in San Jose, California, April 5 to 7. Each year NVidia announce new products and technologies at GTC. This year the focus was on self-driving cars, virtual reality and deep learning. Coinciding with the GTC event, Intelligent Voice released […]
I am a terrible note taker – My handwriting is appalling, and while I can type pretty fast, I find it very difficult to look people in the eye at the same time – And when I am on the phone, trying to tuck the headset under my chin and type is near impossible (and […]
For those of us embroiled in the “Title VII” voice and data recording regulatory burdens placed by the Dodd-Frank Act, it is easy to forget it is just one piece of the puzzle. An interesting piece in today’s FT (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/08f8d538-5ddb-11e3-8fca-00144feabdc0.htm) takes a look at the wider regulatory impact as it affects US asset managers. It […]
Following our recent post on the dangers of overselling the capabilities of voice recognition software (see here), we commissioned a poll of over 2,000 Americans to see whether they had used Siri in iOS7, what they thought of Siri’s capabilities, and whether they had been “oversold” by Apple. The results were a little shocking. Once […]
There was an interesting paper posted on the LinkedIn Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) group a few days ago. The OUCH project (Outing Unfortunate Characteristics of HMMs) has been commissioned under a US government contract to look at where we are with ASR, and what can be done to make things better, if that is what […]