SRS Labs introduces SRS TruVoice, a comprehensive suite of voice technologies designed for mobile phones, portable media devices, Bluetooth headphones and gaming consoles. SRS TruVoice dynamically adapts to the adverse conditions and provides significantly improved voice intelligibility. Some of the features of SRS TruVoice include improved voice intelligibility on the near-end of voice communications, active ambient noise management system, and enhanced overall volume gain of other parties’ voice in real-time. Read full story »
Skype’s new video-calling software offers HD-quality video calling at 1280 x 720 pixel resolution and up to 30 frames per second (fps) on PCs and internet-connected widescreen HDTVs. Consumers will require a high-speed broadband connection, a new HD webcam, a PC with at least a 1.8GHz processor and Skype 4.2 Beta for Windows. Skype will be embedded into the Panasonic’s VieraCast HDTVs and LG’s web-enabled LCD and plasma HDTVs. Read full story »
A patent application called “Ringback Advertising” is assigned to Google, which seems to be Google’s plans to monetize Google Voice service by play ads while a call is dialing or placed on hold. It describes a system for delivering ads to any sort of phone system, including IP, cellular, or landline phones. The idea is to place software somewhere within the flow of telephony data that can identify when a given call is not active, then request audio ads for delivery during that time. Read full story »
Google India launched free voice-based internet search facility on mobiles, built entirely by the Google’s India engineering team. Th is feature is currently available for 400,000 Blackberry cellphone users only. This search service is currently available only in English. To use the voice-based mobile search, a user log on to the internet on the handset, open Google search page, and “ask” for a particular location, like pizza joint, taxi stand or florist while driving a vehicle. Read full story »
Google Voice is a unified voice communications service for consumers and solves the problem of having multiple contact points. Google Voice lets you switch wireless carriers without sacrificing your phone numbers and keep the same Google Phone Number as your mobile identity. Google Voice has a ‘follow-me’ service that unifies both wireless and wireline communications. Google Voice provides one number for voice calls. Google Voice also serves as a hub for SMS as it lets users send text messages from any of their devices or even from their computer. Read full story »
