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VIDEO: Gracenote demos Ford SYNC's new voice control features
EXCLUSIVE: iPhone hands-free commands 27 June 2011 17:00 GMT TweetWith the latest version of Ford SYNC, the car manufacturer's in-car voice command system, you can now draw from over 10,000 individual words that it recognises. This means that the company, along with collaborator Nuance, can offer many new ways for...
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Omnifone and Gracenote team up on cloud-based music solutions
Embedded music services due to more devices in 2010 12 January 2010 13:41 GMT TweetA development from CES could see new cloud-based music solutions hitting PCs, phones, TVs, Blu-ray players, games consoles and more in the coming year.
Omnifone has announced it has expanded its relationship with Sony-owned Gracenote, integrating... -
VIDEO: Sony Pictures and Gracenote bring movieIQ to BD-Live
IFA 2009: Movie trivia at your fingertips 4 September 2009 14:26 GMT TweetFresh from IFA 2009 is the announcement that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced the European launch of movieIQ, a new Blu-ray disc feature powered by Gracenote.
The thinking behind the new feature is to allow users to access a... -
Sony to acquire Gracenote
Buying music search company for $260 million 23 April 2008 8:52 GMT TweetSony Corporation of America has announced that it has signed a merger agreement with Gracenote, Inc and will pay around $260 million for the company, that used to be known as CDDB, in a deal expected to go through late May.
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iTunes to get words of its own
Apple may begin offering song lyrics 26 April 2007 12:59 GMT TweetThis is yet to be confirmed but with Apple moving further multimedia it looks like the company may opt in for some old fashioned text-based services. This would be in the form of providing song lyrics to iTunes users.
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Speech recognition heads to portable media players
20 January 2005 12:39 GMT TweetTwo US firms have outlined ambitious plans to enable users to talk to their digital media players instructing them what they want to hear next.
Music library firm Gracenote has teamed up with Scansoft to offer a control system that hopes to...