Sensory Blog

CES came and went in a very hectic and busy flash. It was a record CES for Sensory, with 21 different products using our chips and technologies being shown across the floors and in the backrooms of hotel suites. Last year Sensory announced 2 new things for CES, and both have proliferated into lots of successful products: BlueGenie Voice Interface…

Last month Sensory hosted its annual Rep Fair. Once a year, we invite all of our sales and distribution reps from around the world to attend this conference to talk about our new products and technologies. In past, we have had over two dozen attendees at these conferences, and have rented out large hotel meeting rooms for multiple days of…

My first startup was a company called ESS Technologies, which originally stood for Electronics Speech Systems. We started out as a software speech synthesis developer, and found mild success making the early Commodore 64 and Apple II games speak. Our claim to fame was that every one of the 20 or so games that licensed our technology made it to…

Google launched a new "audio search indexing experiment that allows users to find spoken words inside videos." Google Audio Indexing (GAUDI) was developed by Google Labs (is that where Nuance founder and hot jazz guitarist Michael Cohen lives these days?). Gaudi is a fun name. Anyone that's been to Barcelona has seen the unique art nouveau style of design and…

My very first blog was called "Weapons for Christmas:...I had misunderstood my daughter when she said she wanted "Webkins for Christmas". I'm always intrigued by errors in human speech recognition. I figure if we can't do it right with all our sensory and extra sensory powers, then how in the world can a computer ever get it right? Or better…