Who doesn’t know that? No matter whom you want to call, online shops, mobile phone providers, banks, insurance companies – you end up at a call centre. Before you are put through to a human employee, there are annoying queries…
In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Mary Fiers, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer, Tessie Hartjes, and Auke Hoekstra, Innovation Origins tries to find out what the future will look like. All six contributors – sometimes accompanied by…
A product must touch emotionally and attract attention in order to be successful. How to achieve this is a central point in market research and here too intelligent speech recognition can make a decisive contribution. Part four of our series…
People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, Innovation Origins has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Beatriz Ramos Vaquero Country of origin: Spain…
Dr. Johannes Wandt has just received the German Study Prize for his doctoral thesis and research on lithium-ion batteries. He talked to Innovation Origins about what drove him and how he got into chemistry. You have just been awarded the…
The municipality of Eindhoven is setting up a sensor register of all sensors in the city. The first part of the pilot is in full swing and will be extended this autumn. The main goal of the municipality is to…
How many children do not dream of it? Playing with their Lego set, building fantasy after fantasy into a reality, how beautiful would it be to ever be able to work for that great brand? Or, no, better still, to…
The answer to this question could come as a surprise. In the third part of our series on intelligent speech recognition, we deal with an area of voice analysis that is particularly important in interpersonal communication and interaction – and…
People talk with all kinds of things. Your computer, television, telephone or even with your car, but only very few of the things that are addressed, can reply specifically. At least not yet. This could soon change for cars. A…
Vertoro is Spanish for “Green Gold“. The founders clearly had their end product in mind when they started thinking of a brand name. Vertoro, a spin-off from The Chemelot Institute for Science & Technology (InSciTe), valorises the technology of turning…