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Digital Dilemmas: Should your business be on Twitter?
Comment Think of it as an audible stream-of-consciousness broken into bite-size chunks. As the hype around microblogging builds, should your business join the tweet-fest or keep schtum? silicon.com's Natasha Lomas deconstructs... [16 Nov 2009]
Computing a Multimedia Representation for Documents Given Time and Display Constraints
White Paper Multimedia Thumbnails are automatically generated by taking a document image as input and first performing visual and audible information analysis on the document to determine salient document elements. [11 Nov 2009]
Amazon goes online shopping with Zappos buy
News Last year, the company bought audiobook retailer Audible for $30m, rare book site AbeBooks for an undisclosed amount, and book-centric networking site Shelfari, also for an undisclosed amount. Amazon has agreed to a... [23 Jul 2009]
Perceptually-Based Data-Driven Join Costs: Comparing Join Types
White Paper Results from a psychoacoustic experiment, acoustic parameters and phonetic factors are analyzed and used in statistical training of join costs so that audible discontinuities at concatenation boundaries can be minimized. [29 May 2009]
"We don't need custom services, we don't need anything fancy"
Comment The day job is very important at the moment," Harley tells silicon.com, sitting in his Whitehall offices where the chimes of Big Ben are faint but audible. People and services are always on the mind of Joe Harley, the... [06 Apr 2009]
Wireless Network Considerations for Mobile Collaboration
White Paper Voice and video represent a continuous data stream and can exhibit noticeable visual or audible artifacts when losses or delays in data delivery are as short as a few hundred milliseconds. When implementing a wireless... [01 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.01.09
Round-Up But even fewer adults have worked out that you can turn off the keypad tones as well, which means anyone over 30 composing a message tends to produce a very audible Morse Code-esque "beeb-beeb-beeb" accompaniment that... [30 Jan 2009]
Audiovisual Speech Recognition With Articulator Positions as Hidden Variables
White Paper It has often been noticed, however, that the audible and visible correlates of a phoneme may be asynchronous; perhaps for this reason, automatic speech recognition structures that allow asynchrony between the... [13 Dec 2008]
Improving Workflow Execution Through SLA-Based Advance Reservation
White Paper In order to establish a business relation they must inter alia create a trust relationship, and set up mechanisms to create reliable, verifiable, and, at least in a commercial environment, also audible agreements with... [11 Sep 2008]
Microsoft gives Zune a retune
News Zune will also come with two games - Hexic and Texas Hold 'em - and adds support for audio books in the Audible format. Microsoft yesterday confirmed the details of its autumn Zune line up. On the hardware side,... [09 Sep 2008]
Pump-and-dump MP3 email spam warning
News The MP3 attachments, which range from around 85KB to 147KB in size, feature a poor sound quality audio blast with a barely audible synthetic female voice promoting a specific stock. An outbreak of pump-and-dump email... [19 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... wi-fi CCTV, BBC iPlayer, skills shortage, robots...
Comment Open source advocates tend to be more audible than anyone else, so the BBC need to be careful not to be overly attentive to open source at the expense of various flavours of Windows and AppleOS. What's got silicon.com... [13 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.03.06
Round-Up Lord Phillips of Sudbury strikes the ball, letting out a shout of "compulsion by stealth" but Clarke volleys back with an "unacceptable" which is audible even all the way back in the cheap seats. The UK is famous for... [24 Mar 2006]
Office star hopes to kick-start 'podcosts'
News The Ricky Gervais Show, one of the most popular podcasts on Apple's iTunes Music Store, is moving to a paid-only format to be sold by audio book specialist Audible. Audible plans to announce on Tuesday... [21 Feb 2006]
Kazaa ordered to block 3,000 keywords
News However the Sharman parties' legal team claimed audio fingerprinting technology from US company Audible Magic, would provide more effective filtering. A QC acting for Sharman - John Ireland - said:... [25 Nov 2005]
