Lip reading could be combined with speech to text to radically improve speech interaction.
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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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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Also, text to speech function offers voice guidance for convenient usage of the web browser.
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Dictation reaches near 100% accuracy with the combination of speech to text and lip reading.
Understanding is crucial not only to accurate translation, but also for dictation and rendering text as speech.
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The ability to generate realistic speech from text stored in a computer will be crucial if voice-enabled services are to take off.
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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The official didn't remember an instance in which an entire text of a speech was provided.
The UMCF's main speaker was Khalifa Hussein Adams and the text of his speech is online.
Another project in the works turns speech into searchable text as video is edited in Adobe's Premiere software.
Adams claims that UMCF's goal isn't to convert Christians to Islam, but the text of his speech tells a different story.
So I think the remarks that were put out were put out as the text of the speech was to be delivered.
He generally sets up after sunset for better visibility and passes out leaflets explaining how to send text into the speech bubbles.
This was dropped from the final text of his speech, but Downing Street insisted it was still among ideas to be discussed.
Though no text of the speech was immediately available, Bush campaign spokeswoman Karen Hughes said Cheney was simply speaking as "an advocate" for his company.
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.
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.
"Whether intended or not, one consequence could be the increased politicisation of the exchange rate, " he said, according to a text of his speech provided by the Bundesbank.
But he was drowned out by the noise in the chamber and he passed on the text of the speech he would have made for the Speaker to circulate.
To see where Mr Blair believes the blame for Britain's failures really lies, it is necessary to forget the orator on the telly and read the text of the speech.
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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