All posts tagged as "Multimodal"

I just found an educational animation project in which four interaction design students animated the first two chapters of my book, Designing the Mobile User Experience (buy now). Their goal was to help students new to user experience, and I think they did a great job.

See the video; it’s fun. Comment there, or on Joel’s or Niek’s blog entries.

Credits: Joel Laumans, Niek Dekker, Lemmy-Boy Hoogendoorn, and Gemma Vernooij.

I’ve asserted for a while that Nuance is a sleeping mobile industry giant. Now we have two more announcements.

Last week Nuance announced a deal with T-Mobile USA to provide a multichannel customer support system. Now Nokia and Nuance are announcing a multi-year agreement for both speech and predictive text joint development. That’s both its speech and Tegic lines of business. I imagine the T9 Discovery Tool will be part of it.

In theory, they will be developing a framework for community developer involvement. This could be a good thing, but I am worried that Nuance’s competitive position will be completely dominant. We’ll all be using Nuance speech tools.

(Side note: one of my earliest jobs was with IBM, working on their ViaVoice dictation product. As a result, I now have a variety of speech UI patents. We had two competitors, Kurzweil and Dragon Naturally Speaking. Kurzweil is now out of business, and ViaVoice and Dragon are owned by Nuance.)