Going one step further would be text-to-speech features for the blind, which not all readers have.
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One factor in the slow adoption is that not many phones integrate with text-to-speech features like Ford's.
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Google Now and the speech-enabled search features are only found in Jelly Bean, and the Nexus 7 is the only way to get it for now, though it's weeks away from arriving on Galaxy Nexus phones.
The Smith-Magenis Syndrome Foundation UK said major features of the condition include mild to moderate intellectual disability, delayed speech and language skills, distinctive facial features, sleep disturbances, and behavioural problems.
Sadly, most of the most exciting new features -- offline speech recognition, Google Now -- don't work.
Mountain Lion will contain more than 2, 000 new features, including iMessages, speech-to-text dictation and predictive "smart search" in the Safari browser.
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.
Hughes said the travel industry approached the White House about the ad, which features excerpts from a Sept. 27 speech that Bush made to airline workers at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
Under the settlement agreement, the library will not acquire any additional e-readers for patron use that exclude persons who are blind or others with disabilities who need accessible features such as text-to-speech functions or the ability to access menus through audio or tactile options.
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As Mitt Romney made his speech surrounded by his family I couldn't help notice the different features of two of his sons, behind his left and right shoulders.
McIntosh features a neglected icon, the Oath of Office, in his stump speech.
I'm talking about speech recognition, back in the news because it is one of the most significant features of Apple's latest phone.
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To enable drivers to control its functions without taking their eyes off the road, R-LINK features a large 18cm tactile display, steering wheel-mounted controls and speech recognition.
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