“I’m Ray Kurzweil. I gave your words a voice.” This was Ray’s punchline during yesterday’s feature BestBuy Super Bowl ad also acknowledging a number of other mobile innovators. The commercial focused the spotlight on ten technology innovators who have changed the way we use our phones: Philippe Kahn: created the camera phone and MotionX Neil Papworth: sent the first SMS message Paul & David Bettner: created Words With Friends Kevin Systrom: creator of the Instagram free photo sharing application Jim McKelvey: created Square Mobile Pay Chris Barton and Avery Wang: helped create Shazam Daniel Henderson: video sharing Kurzweil’s text-to-speech invention is utilized on mobile devices by enabling the reading of information for a visually challenged person, or it may be used to augment the reading of a text message or email. It is often used with voice recognition to answer [...]
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