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Google’s attempts of having a Voice application in the App Store have been denied by Apple. However, the search giant is not letting a small thing like Apple’s rejection stand in the way of its having the service used by iPhone owners, reports are now saying.According to a piece over at The New York Times... |
10 August 2009
05:18 GMT |
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The ability to identify a musical note all in itself, without any other reference point, is one of the most rare traits of a musician. Over the course of history, only a handful of people have demonstrated this ability, including classic music composers Mozart and Tchaikovsky, and famous guitar player Jimi Hendrix. F... |
20 May 2009
08:51 GMT |
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MacSpeech, Inc. has announced MacSpeech Dictate 1.5, the first upgrade to its premier speech-recognition solution for the Mac. The update, immediately available for download, now introduces a Vocabulary Editor, new English profile options, and an enhanced accuracy, to highlight a few new features. Using the new Voca... |
15 May 2009
08:42 GMT |
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SpinVox and Lincoln, RI-based nFinity have released the first SpinVox-enabled application for iPhone and iPod touch. Immediately available from the iTunes App Store, the app uses the SpinVox API (Application Programming Interface) thanks to which nFinity has been able to rapidly develop a new feature for QuickVoice P... |
8 May 2009
08:44 GMT |
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Truphone launched today Truphone 3.0. The release is said to be a major upgrade to the mobile VoIP application for the iPhone, enhancing users’ instant-messaging and account-management experience, delivering a new standard for call quality. Read on for a few noteworthy additions, as well as for an inspiring sta... |
28 April 2009
09:35 GMT |
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MacSpeech and Acoustic Magic have confirmed that the Voice Tracker USB array microphone is now certified for use with MacSpeech Dictate, a powerful speech-recognition solution for Mac OS X. The mic can now be used with MacSpeech Dictate for voice input and control of the Macintosh without wearing a headset or requiri... |
22 April 2009
09:06 GMT |
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As a PC user, you may not be acquainted with the VoiceOver function in Mac OS X. Implemented into Apple's OS since version 10.4, VoiceOver reads aloud the contents of files including web pages, Mail messages and word processing files, and provides a comprehensive audible description of your workspace, using a ri... |
11 March 2009
10:13 GMT |
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Very soon, metal detectors in airports could become only an addition, if at all, to the high-tech threat identifying systems currently being developed, enhanced or already in use. We've already talked today about the mood detecting software, while, just recently, we also discussed the matter of those scanners t... |
3 December 2008
11:29 GMT |
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It has been confirmed that Microsoft's Tellme voice-activated search service is heading to the iPhone. It will be a couple of months before the application arrives on the App Store, according to Senior Director of the development team, Dariusz Paczuski.But the potential is truly valuable. For example, with Tellm... |
29 September 2008
06:04 GMT |
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It has been confirmed that iPod touch boasts the necessary hardware to support VoIP calls. With the newly announced headphones from Apple, which ship with a built-in mic, iPod touch is good to go as a voice communications device.“With 5 wires connected to the Touch headphone jack (instead of 4 on the previous m... |
12 September 2008
04:10 GMT |
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If you are having trouble concentrating while reading, suffering from poor eyesight, or simply want to do more with your time, the guys at Shiny Development have this great application for you called Speakapedia. It creates podcasts from Wikipedia articles, imports them to your iTunes library and lets you play them. ... |
17 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Do you want a kid? The first thing that you should do is to listen to your woman's voice because it signals her ovulation, as showed by a new research carried out by a team made of Nathan Pipitone and Gordon Gallup, of the State University of New York at Albany, and published in the Evolution and Human Behavior ... |
5 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Ever since the Sunnyvale-based company announced the availability of Yahoo Messenger for Vista, users out there downloaded and tested the application even if it was only a preview of the upcoming IM client. Unfortunately, this very early version of the program provided a limited number of functions so users couldn�... |
2 May 2008
08:58 GMT |
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The last Neanderthals may have gone extinct in their last stronghold in Gibraltar 24,000 years ago, but we still can hear their voice. At least, a computer made a variant of it, in an attempt of a team led by Robert McCarthy, an anthropologist at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, as signaled by New Scientist... |
17 April 2008
05:19 GMT |
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Yahoo Messenger, that popular instant messaging application designed by the Sunnyvale super giant, is again brought in the spotlights thanks to a Mac OS X update rolled out a few hours ago. In case you're one of those Apple fans out there and you're using Yahoo Messenger, you surely know that the instant me... |
26 March 2008
03:48 GMT |
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The human brain can be fooled, but not this phone. Our mind orientates too much based on the voice, but what a lier may not know is that there are non-perceivable patterns in the sound of a voice that can betray him/her. A new high-tech mobile phone device can secretly decode, based on the pitch and sound analysis of... |
23 February 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Phishing is one of the most certain means of acquiring some personal information period. Either the victim doesn't know he/she is visiting a fake secure site or is providing the information via email to somebody asking for it while posing as an official doesn't really matter to the phishers. All that matter... |
21 February 2008
16:36 GMT |
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Just a voice cue can hook a man in love with a woman. But what is the secret? The honeyed pitch is not enough: the man must receive a clear message to be convinced. A British research published in Biology Letters found this during its investigation made on 30 male subjects. The volunteers had to listen to recordings ... |
6 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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For those who are not familiar with the name of Alltel, even if you should, the company is America's largest network, with a coverage that goes for the whole nation. Their goal is to provide the most reliable network and "it's a nationwide network that somebody can count on", as they say.During the years, A... |
18 December 2007
04:33 GMT |
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Victoria Beckham insists she can sing. Thank God she didn't say (again) that her breasts are also the real thing! Yes, well, we all have our little obsessions in this life, you know, those little narcissistic secrets we like to keep to ourselves. Like, for example, I have a friend who thinks she can dance better... |
6 December 2007
10:04 GMT |
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It was just yesterday when rumors of Google readying itself to bid for Ebay's Skype hit the market. Realizing what this could mean for Android, Yahoo decided to step up its game a notch.Ok, that is a little exaggerated. Or a little more than that, anyway. Because it's just a rumor, because Yahoo has had the... |
21 November 2007
05:10 GMT |
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Yahoo Voice is one of the most important features of Yahoo Messenger because it enables consumers to communicate over the web using a microphone and a headset. Because you're able to call a phone from all over the world, the function is pretty important for numerous users so the parent company created a live cha... |
11 October 2007
03:40 GMT |
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1. A croak is produced by frogs by pushing air through the larynx in the throat. Most frogs have vocal sacs that amplify the sound. These are elastic skin membranes that work by distention. Tree frogs, toads and most South American and Australian frogs have just one vocal sack located under the throat (it can be larg... |
29 September 2007
06:14 GMT |
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Now we know why Barry White was nicknamed "The Walrus of Love". A new research found that men with lower-pitched voices father more children than those with high-pitched voices. Women found in the fertile period seem to select men with low-pitched voices.Previously, the team led by David Feinberg, assistant professo... |
26 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Besides the face, which is the first thing you notice on a newly met person? It's his/her voice. Apart from the face or facial expression, the voice is the most important signal whether the person is friend or foe, bland or tough, hot or disgusting. And the physical appearance may offer clues to his/her sexualit... |
6 September 2007
16:51 GMT |
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Vlingo Corporation just launched a limited beta version of vlingo, a breakthrough voice-powered interface for mobile devices based on a revolutionary speech recognition technology. With vlingo you can forget about annoying tapping on the tiny keypads of your handheld, as it enables you to control, by voice, your pho... |
23 August 2007
09:45 GMT |
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The Google Maps web-based mapping tool rolled out in November a special function that allows you to call a certain business straight from the interface of the service. The function was only a test according to some sources from Google and was shut down some time ago although the search giant didn't officially a... |
23 July 2007
04:48 GMT |
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Parrots remain the most popular pet birds. This is due to their fascinating colors, their intelligence, attachment to their owners and their ability to imitate the human voice, but also to their adaptability to the captive life. This is exactly what led many species to the brink of extinction, and some species are al... |
19 June 2007
15:21 GMT |
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An echo is a reflection of sound, arriving to the listener sometime after the direct sound. Typical examples are the echo produced by the bottom of a well, by a building, or in a room, by the walls. A true echo is a single reflection of the sound source. The time delay is the extra distance divided by the speed of so... |
13 June 2007
15:41 GMT |
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The curtains raise showing off the actor and his puppet. While they tell each other jokes, the puppet seems alive, possessing its own voice and personality. Of course, the actor, a ventriloquist, is the one that produces the "voice" of the puppet, being continuously attentive not to move his lips while doing this. Th... |
12 April 2007
10:55 GMT |
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Google released an interesting service that allows users to search the Internet using their phone. Basically, any US or UK resident is able to search on Google from their handheld device by dialing 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) and pronouncing their keyword. The service is currently in beta stages and part of the G... |
11 April 2007
06:27 GMT |
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fring officially launched its free, mobile VoIP service for S60 devices. Developed by Nokia, S60 is one of the world's leading smartphone software. fring is a light downloadable mobile phone application enabling anyone with a compatible handset to make free calls and text messages or "chat" to other fring users ... |
12 March 2007
11:33 GMT |
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