Speech Recognition Resources

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Bill Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge: Bill Gates told a Hong Kong gathering that society will need more explicit rules governing privacy boundaries around software as the mobile/PC line blurs. As software gets more powerful, privacy issues pose "an interesting software challenge", said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Recounting a short history of software...; Tags: Innovation, Mobile, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Speech Recognition, Research & Development, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Marketing, Microsoft, privacy, software, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia; News items 2008-08-14
Google Translate for iPhone has lots of potential: Google recently launched a new translation tool for iPhone that turns your device into a free plus data costs and very good pocket translator. That got me thinking though -- Google has the technology, and ability to make this application far better than any other pocket translator, and a...; Tags: apple iphone, google inc., speech recognition, emerging technologies, garett rogers; Blog posts 2008-08-09
1RobotCompanion for XP (exe): Make your computer fun to use and give it a personality. Talk to our animated characters with a microphone and listen to the computer talkback in your speakers. Speech recognition, dictation and talking software, voice commands allow hands-free operation, voice news topic LOOKUP, customized conversation, voice searchable news and Web...; Tags: microsoft windows xp, voice, computer, abasoft, productivity, speech recognition, telecommunications, emerging technologies; Software downloads 2008-08-08
1RobotCompanion for Vista (exe): Make your computer fun to use and give it a personality. Talk to our animated characters with a microphone and listen to the computer talkback in your speakers. Dictation, speech recognition, voice control allows hands-free operation, voice news topic lookup, customized conversation, voice searchable news, and Web link navigation. Create...; Tags: Voice, Microsoft Windows Vista, Computer, Abasoft, Productivity, Speech Recognition, Telecommunications, Emerging Technologies; Software downloads 2008-07-29
Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain: Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it's still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn't have the best operating system on the planet....; Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Wiki, Document Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Speech Recognition, Channel Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-07-01

Garmin Nuvi 880: Ever since the Garmin Nuvi 880 was announced at CES 2008, we've been excited to get out hands on this portable navigation system. Given the good track record of the other Nuvi series devices, we expected more of the same, solid feature list and good performance. However, we were most...; Tags: Keyboards, Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Nuvi 880, speech recognition, Garmin Ltd.; Product reviews 2008-06-30
VoiceTranslator (exe): The program translates what the user says and speaks the corresponding translation in another language. Uses Microsoft Speech Recognition and Text To Speech technologies,and three popular translation web services (google, babelfish and freetranslation) Includes support for local dictionaries easily extendable by the user (even while using another app, via a...; Tags: Web, Hotkey, VoiceTranslator Software, Speech Recognition, Emerging Technologies; Software downloads 2008-06-19
Weekend Gadget Guidance: Control PowerPoint presentations with your voice: Not too many people have taken advantage of the speech recognition capabilities that Windows has, but this one might just change your work life forever. Blogger and Microsoft employee Rob Chambers offers a handful of free macros you can add to your Speech Macros folder to...; Tags: Voice, Microsoft PowerPoint, PowerPoint Presentation, Macro, Speech Recognition, Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-06-06
tazti Speech Recognition Software for Windows XP (zip): tazti Speech Recognition for XP/XP Tablet operating systems is a Web 2.0 style application that enables you to log in to and navigate FaceBook and MySpace by talking to your PC. Turn on and operate the iTunes music player by talking to your PC. Search the bookmarks in all the...; Tags: Software, Google Inc., PC, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Speech Recognition, Desktops, Emerging Technologies, Hardware; Software downloads 2008-05-13
tazti Speech Recognition Software for Windows Vista (zip): tazti Speech Recognition for Vista operating system is a Web 2.0 style application that enables you to log in to and navigate FaceBook and MySpace by talking to your PC. Turn on and operate the iTunes music player by talking to your PC. Search the bookmarks in all the browsers...; Tags: Software, Google Inc., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Speech Recognition, Desktops, Emerging Technologies, Hardware; Software downloads 2008-05-13
Noisy Emailer (exe): The Noisy Emailer is a wizard style program that allows you to talk to your computer. This program can turn your words into text. You have the option during the running of the program as to whether you want to have the program turn your words into text speech recognition...; Tags: Program, Noisy Emailer, Speech Recognition, Productivity, Telecommunications, Emerging Technologies; Software downloads 2008-04-28
TechNet Webcast: Speech Recognition and Grammar Generation in Unified Messaging for Exchange Server 2007 (Level 300): A good unified messaging experience hinges on speech recognition. The presenter of this webcast talks about the speech recognition feature of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging. The focus is on key features, configuration, and the underlying architecture. Also, the grammar generation process is integral part of speech recognition. The...; Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Unified Messaging, Webcast, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft TechNet, Speech Recognition, Emerging Technologies; Webcasts 2008-04-18
Thinking Home (dmg): Thinking Home is the easiest-to-use, affordable home automation solution for Mac OS X. It is faster than ever and savvy about the most popular controllers, like the PowerLinc V2 and ActiveHome Pro. In many cases, it can store your schedule in a controller so you turn off your Mac. Even...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Thinking Home, Speech Recognition, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; Software downloads 2008-04-18
Security risk management vs. software development: George Ou highlights problems with Vista's speech recognition software and wonders why the issue hasn't been fixed for more than a year. The reason: Risk management. Here's George's description of what he calls a flaw in Vista's speech recognition--some folks debate whether it's a flaw or not....; Tags: Software, Security, Software Development, Voice Recognition, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Risk Management, George Ou, Speech Recognition, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-12
Vista SP1 still vulnerable to speech recognition 'analog' hole: Vista SP1 still vulnerable to speech recognition 'analog' holeWill this wake it if the machine is locked?Because if all it takes to stop this is have your machine drop to the login screen, then it's not much of an exploit.I do realize that many may not have their system go...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), speech recognition, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1; Discussion threads 2008-02-12
Vista SP1 still vulnerable to speech recognition 'analog' hole: A little more than a year ago, Sebastian Krahmer posted a question on the Dailydave security mailing list whether Vista's speech recognition was exploitable or not via malicious sound files that could be hosted on websites. I was the first to answer his call with some initial skepticism...; Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Bottom Line, Speech Recognition, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-02-12
Typle (exe): With Typle, you can open any application, document, folder or Internet page, by your voice commands. You can speak in any language you like and choose how you want to say the commands. You can also use any kind of microphone. Typle is available in Free and Premium versions. In...; Tags: Microphone, Typle, Speech Recognition, Emerging Technologies; Software downloads 2008-01-23
Typle Premium MultiLingual (exe): You can speak in any language you like and choose how you want to say the commands. You can also use any kind of microphone. In the Premium version, you can record different users and different keywords, and Typle recognizes up to 450 voice commands. Typle uses its own unique...; Tags: Microphone, Typle, Speech Recognition, Emerging Technologies; Software downloads 2008-01-22
Dragon speech recognition comes to the Mac: Dragon speech recognition comes to the MacIs it text-to-speech or speech-to-text?The story sounds like it is for dictation software which is speech-to-text. The end of the story sounded like they were demoing it to do text-to-speech. The Mac already has a pretty good text-to-speech capability, but it does need a...; Tags: speech recognition, Apple Macintosh, Dragon; Discussion threads 2008-01-18
Dragon speech recognition comes to the Mac: The big brand in text-to-speech technology will be native on the Macintosh this quarter, according to MacSpeech, the company that landed the licensing deal. It's yet another hurdle overcome for switchers to the Mac. The announcement was made here at the Macworld Expo earlier in the week....; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Speech Recognition, Desktops, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-01-17