Two other companies announced plans to put speech-recognition software onto handheld devices this week at Comdex.
These companies got their start in the business by performing speech-recognition searches for the government.
As speech-recognition algorithms improve, the spoken word could become the main interface to the network.
In addition to Blinkx, Autonomy counts the U.S. and U.K. governments as customers of its speech-recognition technology.
The grant was made on the basis that a speech-recognition chip would have applications in homeland security.
Encapsulating the latest speech-recognition in hardware will not be easy, but the Carnegie Mellon researchers have the appropriate experience.
First, Google's speech-recognition technology lets it scan videos for cues such as laughter.
Available in gray and green, the Pentium-powered computers are contoured like a TV and VCR, and feature easy-to-use speech-recognition software.
Though such errors are inevitable, there may be a way to let speech-recognition programs take the pain out of making corrections.
Because most costs are upfront, the more software a speech-recognition firm can sell, the lower the average cost for each copy.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told an audience at Carnegie Mellon Friday that he sees speech-recognition and touch-screens diminishing the role of the keyboard.
The QNX Aviage Acoustic Processing Suite is an efficient, modular solution that offers sophisticated echo cancellation and noise reduction for hands-free and speech-recognition systems.
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Earlier this month--just a day after settlement talks between Justice and Microsoft fell apart--he reiterated his interest in bundling speech-recognition software into a future version of Windows.
What is frustrating about this, says Dr Kristensson, is that more often than not the correct strings of words were recognised, but rejected by the speech-recognition program on statistical grounds.
Wonder uses Nuance's speech-recognition tech to record and convert your words into text, and Yandex's own language software then processes those words (you can also type your queries, if you're so inclined).
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With the likes of Google, Nuance and Vlingo now offering mobile speech-recognition services for phones, and the development of speech-driven systems for use in vehicles, Parakeet may be flying into a growing market.
Initially he is using transcripts of conversations to train his software, but once it is able to handle queries reliably, he plans to add speech-recognition and speech-synthesis systems to handle the input and output.
With the likes of Google, Nuance and Vlingo now offering mobile speech-recognition services for phones, and the development of entertainment systems and vehicle communication, such as Ford's Sync platform, Parakeet may be flying into a growing market.
The prototype uses an open-source speech-recognition program called Pocket Sphinx, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, but Dr Kristensson reckons it would be easy to apply the same approach to commercially available programs like Nuance's Dragon.
One example is speech-recognition and machine-translation technology.
Per Ola Kristensson and Keith Vertanen, at the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, have developed a method of allowing speech-recognition programs to share their thoughts, as it were, with the user, in order to speed up the correction process.
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.
An optical-character-recognition machine for the blind that's capable of reading most types of printed text aloud, the CCD flatbed scanner, speech-recognition software, the first synthesizer that created sounds virtually indistinguishable from those produced by their acoustic counterparts, and a whole bunch of other nifty things we can barely comprehend came from Ray's brain.
Besides doing away with the need to use fiddly controls on handheld computers, mobile phones and music players, a speech-recognition chip would have other uses too: it could form the basis of a powerful, portable interpreting device, for example, or allow car drivers to change radio stations or operate navigation systems by speech alone.
Sadly, most of the most exciting new features -- offline speech recognition, Google Now -- don't work.
Optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition are among the fields he has contributed singificantly to.
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Application companies, in the meantime, can hope to see their programs run on many more handsets--and so spend their time building specialty features like new languages for speech recognition or digital-rights software for mobile music sales, Rubin contends.
Remember Spinvox, the voicemail transcription service which seemed to have cracked seamless machine-based speech recognition?
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Mobiles will continue to get steadily better, with higher resolution touch-screens, speech recognition that really works and much greater memory and storage capabilities.
Nina combines Nuance speech recognition, Text-to-Speech (TTS), voice biometrics, and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology hosted in the cloud to deliver an interactive user experience that not only understands what is said, but also can identify who is saying it.
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