The swing was probably helped by Mr. Gaitskell's strong anti-Market speech at the Labour Party Conference, at Brighton, also held last month.
I don't know about you, but such marketing speech makes my skin crawl.
I write all day long, in addition to doing a lot of what you might more broadly call communications work (strategic messaging, institutional marketing, speech writing, etc).
A tankard is painted with an improbable scene of Chinese quack dentists giving marketing speeches on a stage and pulling teeth from a hapless audience member.
The market for speech recognition is dominated by server-based systems used in call centres, directory-assistance services and voice portals (speech-driven data services that supply news, weather forecasts, share prices, travel information and so on).
Pending a bankruptcy court's approval of the contract, the Learning Company will take exclusive retail responsibility for Dragon and for L&H Voice Xpress, which between them account for the majority of the $35 million retail market for speech recognition software.
And it will claim more than 70% of the market for speech products like dictation software.
Alibaba and Tencent are two other key players in the Chinese market developing speech recognition technology.
Last year, according to research firm PC Data, Dragon led the market for speech recognition software in both products shipped (45%) and revenue (57%).
