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If you are relying on teleconference hardware made by other companies, I suspect that you will have those companies cloning your software for their hardware. I
by jlgreco 13y ago
If you are relying on teleconference hardware made by other companies, I suspect that you will have those companies cloning your software for their hardware.
I mean, I assume Cisco Telepresence stuff doesn't already record/transcribe meetings... If your idea starts to take off, I would bet that it will for sure in the near future. That seems like exactly the sort of functionality you would expect from that sort of hardware.
- shubb 13y agoWell CALO yielded SIRI, as in on the iphone. That project had a number of parts, one was an AI personal assistant, another was meetings, and another was some kind of integrated battle control center. Anyway, it yielded a lot of high grade speech recognition research and AI research, which companies are battling to license. If you recall Yahoo's weirdly overvalued purchase of Sumly, that was part of a deal to acquire a license for this kind of tech. I suspect the most credible opponents to this startup would be MS bundling this kind of functionality into Outlook, or some other big company exploiting this expensive but already licensed tech. But what you get here, is first to market, and attack on specific verticals (i.e. social services, and later related services). You can't be scared off by 'what if we have a competitor'. If you don't have a competitor, your market probably doesn't exist. That is what I'd worry about here.