The release of Proloquo2Go's boy and girl voices — the company also has two other children's voices with a British accent for that market — is an indicator of new progress in the decades-old text-to-speech industry.
Harvard Business School Working Paper "Dynamic Commercialization Strategies For Disruptive Technologies: Evidence From The Speech Recognition Industry", by Matt Marx, Joshua S. Gans and David H. Hsu.
In a recent speech to industry leaders, transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin struck a conciliatory note: "Perhaps the government was overambitious … we all made mistakes".
Meanwhile in Canada, a minister has been exposed for delivering a rallying speech to industry oil specialists encouraging tar sands oil extraction.
To most, "If you can't beat them, join them" has a more appealing ring than "Innovate or die".Sources Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Disruptive Technologies: Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry", by Matt Marx, Joshua S. Gans and David H. Hsu.
"A culture of irresponsibility took root from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street," he said in a speech to industry executives and senior officials in the East Room of the White House.
"Arms, oil, timber and a variety of other products are generating far greater sums than diamonds ever did, but it is only we that acted decisively," he said in a speech to industry leaders.
Sure the consumer market currently makes up the vast majority (perhaps as high as 80%) of the speech recognition industry's revenues.
He is a coauthor of "Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Disruptive Technologies: Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry," which is forthcoming in Management Science.
Along with Joshua Gans of the University of Toronto and David Hsu of Wharton, I conducted a study on the speech recognition industry over the last 58 years.
