Source: Singularity Weblog — February 6, 2012 | Nikola Danaylov

“I’m Ray Kurzweil. I gave your words a voice.” This was Ray’s punchline during yesterday’s feature Best Buy 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 questions. [...]