Additionally, the secondary unit is connected to a motorized touchscreen LCD and responds to your voice thanks to the included speech recognition software.
Two other companies announced plans to put speech-recognition software onto handheld devices this week at Comdex.
Available in gray and green, the Pentium-powered computers are contoured like a TV and VCR, and feature easy-to-use speech-recognition software.
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.
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.
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.
Google also used the technology to cut the error rate on speech recognition in its latest Android mobile software.
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Because most costs are upfront, the more software a speech-recognition firm can sell, the lower the average cost for each copy.
But someday soon, I think, thanks to the increasing miniaturization of semiconductor devices, wireless and better software interfaces like speech recognition, our technology is going to start disappearing, embedding into walls and dashboards and sheets of paper.
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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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.
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