Comparisons to Apple’s natural language voice recognition app and search tool Siri aren’t unexpected, especially given Google’s acquisitions of speech synthesis company PhoneticArts and Clever Sense, makers of the virtual personal assistant Alfred.
Google Acquire PhoneticArts by Thom Craver Google announced the acquisition of England's PhoneticArts, a company specializing in speech algorithms, founded four years ago. Search Engine Optimization in an Increasingly Social World by Eric Enge
The Official Google Blog just announced Google's acquisition of England's PhoneticArts, a company specializing in speech algorithms, founded four years ago. No, it's not a Shakespearian app. It's Google's latest business development.