An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 19, 2024
- April 18, 2024
- April 17, 2024
- April 16, 2024
- April 15, 2024
- April 14, 2024
- April 13, 2024
Some of Our Sources
- BoingBoing
- Smashing Apps
- Six Revisions
- My Ink Blog
- Wal You
- CSS Tricks
- Freelance Switch
- Web Resource Source
- Android Dissected
- Willems Lab
Help Webnuz
Referal links:
January 28, 2013 02:30 pm GMT
There's no shortage of apps on Android that offer to read news feeds out loud -- Google's mobile OS includes built-in text-to-speech (TTS) functionality, making it a snip for devs to add speech-related features. But the problem is that a lot of these TTS-powered apps do a poor job of deciphering the main content on a web page versus all of the othersuperfluous text.That's whereWeb2go, an Android app from Israeli startup Volacent, claims to have got the experience right with technology it's calling ARI (Artificial Reading Intelligence) that uses pattern matching to work out what text on a web page is and isn't relevant.
Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/I4SfjtwDAZg/
Volacents Web2go Is An Android App That Reads The News To You
There's no shortage of apps on Android that offer to read news feeds out loud -- Google's mobile OS includes built-in text-to-speech (TTS) functionality, making it a snip for devs to add speech-related features. But the problem is that a lot of these TTS-powered apps do a poor job of deciphering the main content on a web page versus all of the othersuperfluous text.That's whereWeb2go, an Android app from Israeli startup Volacent, claims to have got the experience right with technology it's calling ARI (Artificial Reading Intelligence) that uses pattern matching to work out what text on a web page is and isn't relevant.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/I4SfjtwDAZg/
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
Techcrunch
TechCrunch is a leading technology blog, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.More About this Source Visit Techcrunch