Category: Stories
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Kick me again, RIAA!
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Andrew Orlowski
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“ The anti-copyright gaggle has an insatiable need to feel victimized. Injustice burns deep, and is triggered by the merest hint that “The Man” might be tampering with one’s “bits”. Another example of technology utopians trying to bypass politics and claim victimhood – the Net Neutrality” campaign – shows very similar characteristics.” A while ago…
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SpinVox: veni, vedi, descripi
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Andrew Orlowski
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Yesterday’s technology demonstration by SpinVox at its Marlow HQ reminded everyone just how hard it is to do voice to text machine translation, and how far away anyone is from automating the bulk of the voicemail translation in the real world. All of the messages supplied by our small group of visitors tripped through to…
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SpinVox: Enter the Dragon!
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Andrew Orlowski
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To Marlow, where SpinVox today hosted a demonstration for journalists of its technology to convert voice messages to text: two groups of four journalists, to be precise. For a full report on the demo, see this report. Not long after the presentation had got underway, the door opened and in came the chief executive and…
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SpinVox
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Andrew Orlowski
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The Register has built up a picture of the company that makes believing SpinVox’s revised claims extremely difficult. Sources suggest SpinVox, a privately held company, is employing a far larger number of transcribers than it publicly states, even today. These sources also point to extreme difficulties in maintaining its operations as the company scaled, winning…
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SpinVox: Why I Quit
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Andrew Orlowski
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“The worst kept secret in the mobile industry is out: disgruntled Spinvox call centre staff have been telling the BBC that they’re not actually robots, or even highly advanced man-machine cyborg hybrids.” … Read More
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To the Moon – with extreme engineering
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Andrew Orlowski
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Apollo space program as a triumph of power and industrial might. The superpowers’ space programs were, of course, political and chauvinistic, designed to showcase national wealth. But there’s a better way of looking at the program, Dennis Wingo reminded me recently. Masses of money helped put man on the Moon of course, but the Moon…