i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

"Finally, Professional Dictation Software for the Mac"

According to the article, Andrew Taylor worked on creating speech recognition software for the Mac for 10 years while his competitor, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, made their own version.  In February of 2010 Dragon, now Nuance, bought Andrew's company and gave his team access to all of the company's dictation-software expertise, marketing power and other resources.

New York Times (NYT) published a very interesting article asking the question about the potential future of the social objects. (In case you don’t know what social objects are, here is the article called “Social Objects for Beginners”.) In brief, social objects are essentially the physical objects which embody social stories or social data.