Omek brings its gesture recognition engine.

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Given the sensitivity, Google decided not to release a face-recognition search engine it had made.

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Common to all such services is a need for some form of speech recognition, as well as an engine that can generate speech from digitised text.

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Computer viruses, once the mischievous work of get-a-life geeks and high school kids looking for a little recognition, suddenly are a profit engine for the criminal underground.

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Not only can S Note be used for play, it also brings serious productivity features such as an equation analyzer, shape recognition and integration with the Wolfram Alpha logistics engine.

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Though it transcribes all of the speech pulled out of videos from its content partners, it only runs other videos through speech-recognition software when there isn't enough metadata with the files for the search engine to figure out what it contains.

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The multimodal and multilingual speech engine runs on a cloud-based server to provide extremely high-quality recognition with low latency.

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They fed the pictures into an off-the-shelf face-recognition programme that compared them with 280, 000 images they had found by using a search engine to identify Facebook profiles from the same city.

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