Posts
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/50168.wss
http://www.ibm.com/internet-of-things/iot-solutions/watson-iot-platform/
IOT dev platforms: M2X & Flow Designer:
https://www.business.att.com/enterprise/Family/internet-of-things/iot-platforms-development/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_understanding
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AT&T Watson
About AT&T Watson:
http://www.research.att.com/projects/WATSON/index.html
AT&T WATSONSM is AT&T's speech and language engine that integrates a variety of speech technologies, including network-based, speaker-independent automatic speech recognition (ASR), AT&T Labs Natural Voices® text-to-speech conversion, natural language understanding (which includes machine learning), and dialog management tasks.
WATSON has been used within AT&T for IVR customers, including AT&T's VoiceTone® service, for over 20 years during which time the algorithms, tools, and plug-in architecture have been refined to increase accuracy, convenience, and integration. Besides customer care IVR, AT&T WATSONSMhas been used for speech analytics, mobile voice search of multimedia data, video search, voice remote, voice mail to text, web search, and SMS.
Name origin: Alexander Graham Bell's assistant, Thomas A. Watson. VS. IBM's first President, Thomas J. Watson:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3918
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http://www.interactions.com/press-releases/interactions-closes-strategic-deal-acquire-att-watson-speech-recognition-natural-language-understanding-platform/
2014
http://about.att.com/story/att_and_interactions_agree_to_strategic_transaction_in_speech_and_multi_modal_technology_arena.html
Video from 2012
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Company claiming to have natural language understanding:
http://venturebeat.com/2016/08/11/deep-learning-alone-will-never-outperform-natural-language-understanding/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160712005547/en/Pat-Reveals-Radical-Breakthrough-A.I.-Launches-API
http://pat.ai/
