Lip reading could be combined with speech to text to radically improve speech interaction.
Dictation reaches near 100% accuracy with the combination of speech to text and lip reading.
Communications slid after the maker of software that converts speech to text missed earnings and revenue estimates, amid rising costs.
The proposed idea would convert speech to text and back, using the switch to remove any unusual pronunciation or too-quick talking before it reaches the listener's ear.
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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.
Google Glass is the wearable computing device that provides Internet content to the field of vision, along with photos, videos and speech-to-text technology.
Jelly Bean's smarter keyword feature makes text messaging faster by predicting the next word in a sentence, and improved speech-to-text technology and voice technology continues to work even if a data connection is interrupted.
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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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Doctors can also handle medical billing, prescribe drugs, or record a clinical note using speech-to-text on the app.
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So IBM learned that speech-to-text technology was, at the time, not worth developing.
Mountain Lion will contain more than 2, 000 new features, including iMessages, speech-to-text dictation and predictive "smart search" in the Safari browser.
They'll include iMessages, the texting feature already available on mobile devices, speech-to-text dictation and predictive "smart search" in the Safari browser.
TVEyes used BBN's speech-to-text tools as one of its sources of transcripts for tveyes.com, podscope.com and the company's enterprise offerings (it has several companies from which it aggregates transcripts and compares them).
Just a couple weeks after the Authors Guild's overzealous copyright-maximalist stance forced the bookseller to modify the Kindle 2's text to speech feature, the company's lawyers have had a fit of irony and sent out a DMCA takedown request to MobileRead, claiming that the site's links to a Python script that enables Kindle owners to shop at Mobipocket-format ebook sites constitutes circumvention of the Kindle's DRM.
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He learned how to use text-to-speech software through training at the Washington State School for the Blind.
While you're driving, all of those functions shift to a text-to-speech system, which also recognizes commands presented in full sentences.
The pontiff repeatedly misfired in his attempts to apologize for the remarks, eventually appending a lengthy footnote to the text of the controversial speech to help clarify its peaceful intentions.
The ability to generate realistic speech from text stored in a computer will be crucial if voice-enabled services are to take off.
While monitors are seeking out and recording inflammatory statements at rallies, individuals are encouraged to report hate speech to the police via text.
Unfortunately for Mr Dewar, Mr McAllion had already released to the press the text of a speech he intends to give on March 5th at Labour's conference.
The build-it-yourself (and eerily human-proportioned) construction can react to pre-programmed actions, text-to-speech conversion or live control, ranging from basics like the eyes and jaw to the eyelids, eyebrows, lips and neck of an Advanced Fritz.
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Also, text to speech function offers voice guidance for convenient usage of the web browser.
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And with Dragon TV's text-to-speech, television content and options on the screen can be read aloud.
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Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that it has acquired leading text-to-speech technology company IVONA Software.
Going one step further would be text-to-speech features for the blind, which not all readers have.
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Optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition are among the fields he has contributed singificantly to.
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Additionally, IVONA delivers text-to-speech products and services for thousands of developers, businesses and customers around the world.
One factor in the slow adoption is that not many phones integrate with text-to-speech features like Ford's.
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Existing technology like text-to-speech, voice command, Bluetooth hands-free calling and traffic services also helps alleviate driver distraction to avoid potentially dangerous situations.
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