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2006
RoboRealm : robotic vision software

Last update : December 15, 2014 RoboRealm® is a powerful robotic vision software application for use in computer vision, image processing, and robot vision tasks. Using an easy to use point and click interface complex image analysis and robot control becomes easy! RoboRealm™ (vision for machines) costs $49.95 for a…
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2005
Filmer V2.0 – A program for creating fractal animation

last update : august 2010 Filmer is a front-end program for Fractint that generates amazing fractal animation. Fractint is a program for calculating still fractal images (you need Fractint installed to use Filmer). Filmer uses Fractint parameter (.par) files to specify the coordinates and other parameters of a fractal. It…
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Sphinx-4 : a Java speech recognizer

Sphinx-4 is a state-of-the-art speech recognition system written in Java. It was created via a joint collaboration between the Sphinx group at Carnegie Mellon University, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), and Hewlett Packard (HP), with contributions from the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) and the…
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FreeTTS : a Java speech synthesizer

FreeTTS is a speech synthesis system written entirely in Java. It is based upon Flite, a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Flite is derived from the Festival Speech Synthesis System from the University of Edinburgh and the FestVox project from Carnegie Mellon University. Free TTS was…
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2003
WURFL = Wireless Universal Resource File

last update: 22 august 2011 The WURFL is an XML configuration file which contains information about capabilities and features of many mobile devices. The main scope of the file is to collect as much information as we can about all the existing mobile devices that access WAP pages so that…
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InterObject

last update : august 2010 In 2003, InterObject, an israelian company, was focused on the development of multimedia software for Windows and embedded systems. They have been pioneers in the development of software related to MMS Technology. A 3GPP SMIL player, an MMS composer, an MPEG4 decoder and encoder, am…
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PacketVideo and RealOne Mobile

last update : august 2010 In 2003, the pvPlayer developped by packetvideo was one the first video players available for the Nokia mobile phones 3650 and 7650. I  used this player for my first mobile multimedia applications. Another video player available for the Nokia 3650 phone was the RealOne Mobile…
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vvvv : multipurpose real-time video synthesis toolkit

last update : January 30, 2013 vvvv is a multipurpose toolkit focusing on real-time video synthesis, connecting physical devices, and developing interactive media applications and systems. Because vvvv is basically a very modular multipurpose construction toolkit, it can be used to create many kinds of custom-built applications. The development of…
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Helix DNA server

last update : august 2010 The Helix DNA Server is a universal delivery engine supporting the real time packetization and network transmission of any media type to any device. The Helix DNA Server is the industry's core media delivery engine. The Helix DNA Server is available under the RealNetworks Public…
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2002
Nuance : speech technologies

In 2002, I used the trial versions of Nuance 8.0 to set up a speech recognition and voice synthesis system with the following modules : Nuance Vocaliser 2.0 Nuance Voyager Nuance Voice Web Server Nuance Verifier 3.0 The VoiceXML application was hosted on the servers of Voxeo.