Archive for the 'Android' Category

Nuance to team up with Nokia

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Press release from Nuance:
Nuance Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Nokia, Spanning Advanced Input Technologies and Open Development Framework
And related piece in SpeechTech magazine:
Nuance, Nokia Strike a Partnership Deal
MocoNews has an interesting piece about it:
Nokia Picks Nuance For Speech Recognition And More; Will Open Up Technologies To Developers
What will this all mean for Nuance’s speech technology input […]

Nice phone, shame about the speech rec.

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

T-Mobile have just launched the first Android phone, the G1, and Android have announced the “1.0″ release of the Android SDK.
Speech technology is conspicuously absent from the package index, and there’s no sign anywhere that it’ll be included anytime soon, or late.

Nokia Buys Symbian, forms Symbian Foundation

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

News just in yesterday.

Report at Reuters.
Symbian Foundation website.

There’s a pie chart in yesterday’s FT showing smartphone operating system market share. Here it is again via Google’s Chart API.

Nokia intends to open source all of the Symbian code by 2010. This will include S60, UIQ, and MOAP.
Earlier this month the EU approved Nokia’s buying […]

Speech Recognition removed from Android

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Google have quietly removed the speech.recognition package from the Android API. I say quietly: the removal is noted in the API Diff specification for M3-RC37a to M5-RC14, released 15th Feb, but I haven’t been able to find any more public announcements - for example, it wasn’t mentioned in the m5-rc-14 release announcement. Google […]

“It seems like Google called for a party and forgot to order beer”

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

The Android SDK and documentation came up late yesterday and already this morning there were a thousand messages on the Android Developers discussion group. I’ve had a quick look and here are my first impressions:

Android and the Open Handset Alliance

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

This story is all over the net and the papers. Most of the stories just regurgitate the official press releases, which are here. By now everyone will know what it is, so I won’t bore you with that here.
The OHA developers’ page says that they “will make available an early look at the […]