Comments on: SpinVox: Demo Day

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:28:21 +0000

It depends what you mean by 'data privacy' and which jurisdiction you live in (for legal meaning), but in my opinion human transcription is not a breach of privacy… Poorly managed human transcription may be, but it's not given. Other people handle my personal data every day (the bank, the HR people at work, my boss, friends and family)… the key is how they treat it.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:28:00 +0000

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:28:00 +0000

It depends what you mean by ‘data privacy’ and which jurisdiction you live in (for legal meaning), but in my opinion human transcription is not a breach of privacy… Poorly managed human transcription may be, but it’s not given. Other people handle my personal data every day (the bank, the HR people at work, my boss, friends and family)… the key is how they treat it.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:41:25 +0000

Nuance which powers the visual voicemail for Vonage and AT&T has its voicemails 100% manually transcribed from a call center in India. Now if that is not infringement of data privacy then what is? I am posting the link of the call center ID where this transcription is done http://www.focusvmt.com/

By: John Smith

John Smith — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:41:00 +0000

By: John Smith

John Smith — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:41:00 +0000

By: To spin or not to spin … « I look so I can hear….

To spin or not to spin … « I look so I can hear…. — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:44:53 +0000

[...] I’m not going to go into all the ins and outs of this issue as I’ve had one of those rare weeks. Meh. I’m just bringing it to your attention. For an interesting commentary on all this spin, check out this post after the jump and this post on Spinvox’s demo day. [...]

By: Out with the Old… « Speech Recognition

Out with the Old… « Speech Recognition — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:16:22 +0000

[...] It seems that SpinVox’s demo day had its share of, um, “problems” as well. Possibly related posts: (automatically [...]

By: The Really Mobile Project » Blog Archive » SpinVox goes free in the UK

The Really Mobile Project » Blog Archive » SpinVox goes free in the UK — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:12:28 +0000

[...] you may have read in the coverage of our recent SpinVox visit we noticed that the build date for SpinVox’s Tenzing software was mere days before our [...]

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:34:14 +0000

An entirely fair point, so the debate moves to: “did they have all the info”
and “if, so why did they invest in it?”
All the info the BBC published has been common knowledge for a long time…
for me the only difference was that because it was the BBC repeating these
claims now (albeit with a direct source too) SpinVox was forced to respond
and *thats* when I and others was disappointed how poorly the technology
worked… Previously we'd had to guess or take the firm's / critics' word
for how it did.