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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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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Now included when the keyboard pops up is an option to use the company's speech-to-text engine, which will (attempt) to translate your words into onscreen text.

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The microphones previously used in the helmets of racecar drivers picked up too much engine roar and not enough of the driver's speech.

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The results are then handed from the cloud to the car, where the in-vehicle intent engine from QNX Software Systems performs the remainder of the speech analysis to determine how to act.

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Some U.S. courts have agreed with Google's assertion that its search-engine results are a kind of opinion that is protected by free-speech rights.

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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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Delivering a keynote speech U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured the audience that the United States "will remain an engine of economic growth".

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