Bitterness at the VC industry
Two and a half years of unsuccessfully trying to raise funds to develop this. Two and a half years of spending hours every day jumping through hoops. Why do I do this when I could work for the DWP verifying “sicknotes”? And thanks to Connecting for Health who managed to destroy any chance of the NHS supporting homegrown developments in the next few years with their farce of an IT procurement scheme.
CRESCENDO ANNOUNCES SERVER-BASED SPEECH RECOGNITION
Dictation software supplier Crescendo Systems has announced a new version of its product suite that will run in a Citrix environment, allowing voice recognition to take place on the server in real time. Crescendo, which uses the Philips SpeechMagic system, says that this means that dictation can be processed remotely or though a web browser, making it ideal for anybody travelling. Costa Mandilaras, president of Crescendo, said that the company “now provides the first dictation and speech recognistion workflow application that brings state-of-the-art speech recognition to Citrix users in the medical and legal field.”