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Let's Fix Things: For over two decades I've been consulting in Communications Design: Everything from business strategy and processes, through to technology, interaction and customer experience. The thoughts here are my own, not necessarily that of my employer.

I have a penchant for spotting patterns and fixing broken user and customer experiences. Even my Bumblebee project hasn't escaped - I've been using Six Sigma techniques to study and predict their behaviour patterns. ☺

November 14, 2007

Sybase and Toyota Receive Patents for Embedded Mobile Search

November 14, 2007/ Nik Sargent

The iAnywhere subsidiary of Sybase has teamed up with a division of automobile giant Toyota to win a couple of patents in the mobile voice search domain. According to a press release issued (November 12, 2007), “Sybase iAnywhere and Toyota InfoTechnology Center Co., LTD. … have been awarded joint U.S. patents (number 7,228,275 and 7,292,978) on techniques to significantly improve open conversational speech-recognition-based interfaces.” The patents arise from development work that the two companies conducted to support speech recognition in cars. [click heading for more]

Nik Sargent

Nik Sargent

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Nik Sargent

Nik Sargent