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Free Aesop for Children app brings classic fables to smartphones, tablets

Your tax dollars at work. How better to describe Aesop for Children, a new iOS app (update: it’s also available for Android, though not through Google Play) offered free by the Library of Congress? I’m sure there’s a debate to be had on whether the government should be in the app-development business, especially when there are competing commercial apps like …

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Nuance unveils Nina, a Siri sister that lives in third

Nuance, a company that plays a part in some of the most well-known speech-recognition services on the market, has unveiled its own intra-app service, called Nina. With Nina’s help, iOS and Android developers can bring speech recognition, text-to-speech, and voice biometrics to their individual applications. Nina works much in the same way as Siri, allowing users to provide voice commands …

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