Comments on: Amazon’s acquisition of text-to-speech company IVONA could help it battle lawsuits (and Siri) http://gigaom.com/2013/01/24/amazons-acquisition-of-text-to-speech-company-ivona-could-help-it-battle-siri-and-lawsuits/ Tue, 21 May 2013 08:39:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: PattyP http://gigaom.com/2013/01/24/amazons-acquisition-of-text-to-speech-company-ivona-could-help-it-battle-siri-and-lawsuits/#comment-1304663 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:28:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=604043#comment-1304663 Compare this technology to iSpeech and I think iSpeech wins.

]]> By: Jay Gittes http://gigaom.com/2013/01/24/amazons-acquisition-of-text-to-speech-company-ivona-could-help-it-battle-siri-and-lawsuits/#comment-1303487 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:49:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=604043#comment-1303487 Dear Raj,

Do you work for Nuance Communications?

Sincerely,

Shorty

]]> By: Raj Tiwari http://gigaom.com/2013/01/24/amazons-acquisition-of-text-to-speech-company-ivona-could-help-it-battle-siri-and-lawsuits/#comment-1303316 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:26:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=604043#comment-1303316 Siri’s strength is its natural language processing, not speech recognition or speech production. I doubt IVONA will be a protection against that IP.

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