Speech Recognition

Interviewed on W3W3.com

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Last week Larry Nelson, co-founder of W3W3.com made the trip up to Boulder to catch up and do a podcast interview with me.  If you are in the entrepreneural community in Colorado, you've probably met Larry and his co-founder Pat.  Larry is the guy in the sharp looking suit at every event taking photos of everyone.  His joke is that the photos go up on the website for free, but you have to pay to get them removed.

I'm fascinated by the work that Larry and Pat have done, because he has documented so many companies in Colorado and beyond.  I keep telling him someone needs to interview him so he can tell his story, and while he was here, I created the world's shortest podcast. 

Larry Nelson Short Podcast

To listen to the interview that Larry did with me where we talked about Gold Systems' new Vonetix 7 Voice product, click here.  Be sure and check out http://www.w3w3.com including the Entrepreneurs, Software and Venture Capital Channels.  If you would like to get your company name in front of business leaders from Colorado and beyond, ask Larry about sponsoring on of these channels.

 

Gold Systems is hiring

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With just a couple of days left in 2011, I have to say I think that 2012 is going to be a great year.  At Gold Systems we have a new product, Vonetix 7 Voice, and business is really starting to take off.  We beat our sales goals for Q4 by a wide margin, and we're going into Q1 with a LOT of opportunity.  To say I'm thankful would be an understatement.  2011 was challenging and I'm hugely grateful to everyone who helped us end the year on an upswing.

Now we're looking for some great people to join our engineering group.  We're mainly looking for .NET and IVR people, but check out our job postings at the Gold Systems website and if it looks interesting, shoot us an email.

To all my friends and business associates – have a Happy New Year and I hope to see you in 2012!

Terry

Thoughts about the Xbox Kinect

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I said I would follow up with a post about the Microsoft Kinect, but Dave Michels beat me to it with a very comprehensive article about what this device might lead to for microsoft and software in general.  Check his article out on his blog pindropsoup.com

It's being reported that the device has outsold the iPad for the number of days its been on the market.  It helps that it makes a great gift, but then again the iPad is on a lot of people's wish list too.  What is certain is that the Kinect has exceeded a lot of people's expectations. 

Many people are saying the Kinect will change how we interact with computers, not just game consoles, and there is a hacker community hard at working making the Kinect do things that Microsoft never intended for it to do.  Drivers have been written for the PC, the Mac and Linux, it's been embedded in an R/C helicopter that can fly around obstacles because of it, and all sorts of new applications are being written for all sorts of crazy things beyond games for the Xbox.

Dave mentions in his article that some Microsoft people aren't happy that the device has been taken beyond the Xbox, but I've heard a different story.  I think that Microsoft gets that it is a great thing that people are coming up with new uses for what was supposed to be a high end toy.  I believe Microsoft themselves will take it beyond the living room if the Lync launch was any indication.

If you still aren't convinced, you have to watch this video.  The real magic is in the software, but still – this is amazing!

 

Interview with W3W3 about Conference Server

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Last week Larry Nelson from w3w3 dropped by the office to interview me about Gold Systems' new Conference Server product that's based on the Microsoft Office Communications Server.  We talked about the new product, but I tried to not turn it into a commercial and spent a fair amount of time talking about what we're doing to make it easier for companies to say "yes" to new purchases.  Now more than ever as entrepreneurs we've got to take the risk out of purchases.  In the interview I listed a few specific things to do and talked about how the new product was designed to be "easy to buy."

I can't seem to find a permalink at w3w3.com, but the interview is on the page for August 2009 and shouldn't be too hard to find.  There is a picture of me in front of my bookcase and speech-enabled crank phone.  By the way, has anyone ever seen Larry without a camera?  He likes to joke that one source of revenue for w3w3 is people paying to have their pictures removed, but I'd have to say he's a pretty good photographer.

You can also read the w3w3 blog at http://w3w3.blogs.com/

Thanks Larry, it's always fun to talk to you!