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Siri Driving Engines Put Differences Aside, Join Forces

After battling it out in courts over patent infringement claims, Nuance and Vlingo came to terms this week by deciding to combine their forces for an undisclosed figure. Nuance once tried to convince a court that Vlingo’s vision of speech recognition was too much like their own. The jury, however, found that ...

21 December 2011
08:21 GMT

Nuance Launches Dragon Recorder for iPhone, iPad

Nuance Communications, the company who is licensing some of its IP to Apple, has rolled out a cool new iPhone application called Dragon Recorder.The free application allows Dragon customers to use an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch as a voice recorder to capture their own voice, and then transcribe their recordings into a...

20 October 2011
14:41 GMT

How to Text Using Voice on Windows Phone

Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system can prove a great option when it comes to sending messages to a contact even when you cannot use your hands, such as when you are driving, for example. Sending a test message using the voice is very simple, as one can learn from the video embedded above. All tha...

12 October 2011
10:11 GMT

Apple Building Team of Engineers with Focus on Speech Technology

Apple has posted several job listings for experts in voice technologies such as speech recognition, iOS software development for speech applications, and speech research, according to CNet’s Crave blog. Specifically, Apple wants a Senior Speech Research Scientist, one iOS Speech Application Engineer, and two S...

22 December 2010
08:21 GMT

Nuance Releases New Healthcare Recorder App for iPhone - Free Download

Nuance Communications has announced Dragon Medical Mobile Recorder, a free iOS application available as a free download from iTunes. Present in only some international iTunes App Stores, the app is tasked with expanding Nuance’s healthcare suite of speech solutions for smartphones and building upon the recen...

13 December 2010
10:43 GMT

Windows Phone 7 Tips and Tricks (XIII) – Speech recognition

One of the most attractive feature of the Windows Phone 7 platform is the Speech recognition function. Using the Speech recognition WM7 smartphone owners will be able to accomplish standard commands only by using their voice. To open the Speech function, one must click and hold the Start button of the phone. When the...

25 November 2010
15:01 GMT

Windows 8 NUI Beyond Multi-Touch

The evolution to Windows 8 will undoubtedly be synonymous with advances in terms of Natural User Interfaces (NUI) for the platform. And the fact of the matter is that there already is more to Windows NUI than users can “touch” although, in all fairness, Microsoft’s focus has been placed with predile...

6 August 2010
11:40 GMT

Windows Phone 7's Speech Innovations Detailed

Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is moving closer to the release of its new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system and, as the official release date approaches more and more info on the solution emerges. Among the newly unveiled details, we can count the speech recognition technology the company packed within...

4 August 2010
09:42 GMT

Vlingo for iPhone Adds SMS Paste, Auto-Listen, Bing

Vlingo Corporation has announced the release of its updated voice-focused application, Vlingo. The application provides users with the ability to send email and text messages simply by speaking into their iPhone, while the new version builds on these powerful features, adding new capabilities. Vlingo delivers up to ...

4 March 2010
03:44 GMT

GhostReader - The Application That Reads You Bedtime Stories

Are you a big fan of audiobooks and podcasts? Have you ever thought of producing one all by yourself? Or do you simply enjoy listening to a warm voice reading you stories before going to bed at night, or helping you discover how certain words should be pronounced in a foreign language? Well, I am not talking about y...

28 February 2010
12:31 GMT

YouTube Introduces Automatic Transcriptions for Videos

YouTube has introduced some pretty interesting technologies which enable users to add automatic text captions to the videos. The feature is only available in several channels for now, as the speech recognition technology it uses isn't exactly perfect but Google says it should improve in time. The video site had...

20 November 2009
03:44 GMT

Forget Windows 7 NUI, Speech Is the New Touch

Microsoft has been articulating the vision of a speech platform as the fundament for human computer interaction for the past 10 years. And just as Windows 7 has started acting like the primary vector to bring natural user interfaces to mainstream computing, the Redmond company is already looking ahead to the evolutio...

29 October 2009
11:35 GMT

How Computers Learn Speech

A collaboration between German and British experts, from the Leipzig Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and the Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging, respectively, has recently yielded a new class of algorithms that their creators hope will make computers able to recognize spoken language ...

15 August 2009
04:56 GMT

Windows 7 Speech Recognition Profile Tool

Microsoft made available for download an updated version of its Windows Speech Recognition Profile Tool tailored to the next iteration of the Windows client. The official label of the tool delivers a hint at the actual functionality. The Windows Speech Recognition Profile Tool enables Windows users to perform operati...

28 May 2009
08:48 GMT

NEC Announces Speech Interpretation Software for Handsets

Today NEC Corporation has announced the development of an automatic software app to be used on mobile phones, which provides a fast and accurate interpretation of words and phrases that are usually associated with travel.According to the company, the new software has been designed to work on the CPUs of mobile phones...

6 January 2009
09:46 GMT

reCAPTCHA Recieves Security Improvement and New Audio Twist

The audio implementation of Carnegie Mellon University’s reCAPCTHA service has suffered a modification that improves its security and also helps preserve historical media. The audio version now plays short sentences from old radio shows that speech recognition software failed to transcribe automatically. CAPTCH...

10 December 2008
06:07 GMT

Take Vista SP1's Speech Recognition Capabilities to the Next Level

Microsoft is permitting Windows Vista users to take the speech recognition capabilities of the operating system to the next level via a free download. In this context, the Redmond giant is offering the Windows Speech Recognition Macros designed to allow an advanced interaction with the Windows client via voice comman...

29 September 2008
09:18 GMT

Speech Recognition Gadget from Google

Google seems to understand that none of the key topics of social life should remain uncovered. With a touch of recent technology, social applications have the potential of becoming a hit. Since 2008 is the year of great changes on the political scene, the company has decided to launch yet another tool to come in hand...

15 July 2008
05:42 GMT

Nuance Launches GPS-Based Mobile Voice Search Service for BlackBerry

Nuance Communications announced the launch of Nuance Voice Control, a speech-driven mobile search and messaging service specially designed for BlackBerry smartphones. The service is currently deployed in North America with Sprint and Rogers Wireless and is available on a subscription basis.Nuance Voice Control is int...

10 August 2007
09:58 GMT

Windows Vista Speech Recognition Comes Back with a Vengeance!

Back in 2006, Microsoft delivered a hilarious on-stage performance of the new built-in Windows Vista speech recognition engine. At the annual Microsoft day-long analysts conference on 27 July of the past year, the auditorium got a tad more than it had initially bargained for. However, judging strictly by the volume o...

11 June 2007
03:40 GMT

iCat: User-Interface Robot

Tired of coming home from work to an empty nest? You probably need a robot to make your home more welcoming.Companion robots are not news anymore, but iCat completes their repertoire with something special: an expressive face. Icat is a robot that interacts with the user. It was designed by Philips Research (Eindhove...

9 May 2007
00:58 GMT


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