Voice without a voice

I'm speechless: Audeo will understand what someone WANTS to say, before they actually say it. Will this make speech recognition technology look old fashioned? The applications for this technology are too many to even brainstorm about. One disadvantage may be, though, the sight of people talking silently to themselves in the street.

Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web

According to Techcrunch, Yahoo will start interpreting semantic information added to websites very soon. Yahoo being one of the big search engines, this will ensure that all those responsible for any web site that wants to be included in a meaningful way, will start adding semantic meta tags. Yahoo will be able to use these tags to understand the structure of the web site and will be able to present it in a way that makes more sense to us humans than the gobbledygook we sometimes are confronted with by search engines.

Of course this is not the same as semantic search, but it's a huge step forward towards actually being able to access and use the vast amount of knowledge that is now available on Internet.

Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry

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SemantiNet Raises $1.7 Million

SemantiNet Raises $1.7 Million (TechCrunch)

Language technology and related startups are hot now. Semantinet is just one of the parties, have a look at Q-Go, Artificial Solutions and of course Powerset for more action in this arena.

EU moves to establish gibberish as lingua franca | The Register

EU moves to establish gibberish as lingua franca | The Register

Just wanted to draw attention to this great move by the EU. Only interesting to those who are into natural language technology, this means they finally have a "Corpus" or body to train and test their systems with. This is only comparable to what the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recordings did for automatic speech recognition, which is much. Let's hope the language geeks can turn this raw material into pearls and we can all start enjoying the fruits.