Consequently, carriers are offering lessons on how to text, introducing phones with larger sized buttons to make it easier to text and increasing media budgets to target older users.
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Instead of converting written missives to voice messages like other text-to-landline services, the setup sends the actual text to the application.
Banks are playing catch-up in many emerging markets where telecommunications companies and networks of agents have been using SMS and text messaging to transfer funds to phones, with the phone owner then able to turn text to cash at a merchant or agent.
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End-to-End Hands-Free Text Messaging: Dragon already lets you dictate text messages to contacts completely hands free, and with these latest updates, it now reads incoming text messages aloud with the ability to respond, no hands required.
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With many doctors now using text messages to remind patients of appointments and patients being able to text back if they can't attend, it's tempting to think that missed appointments will become a thing of the past.
He was part of the network that helped develop hypertext -- online text that links to other text, like this.
Zipwhip pioneered the concept of "cloud texting"-freeing text messaging from the mobile device to allow mobile subscribers to text from virtually any connected device with a fully synchronized experience to their main mobile number.
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Imagine a room with several dozen players all talking and acting at the same time and where everything had to be described in text you would have to read several 80-line pages of text in rapid succession to understand what was happening.
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Try translating some text from say English to Spanish, and then turn the translated text back to English.
Simply not replying to the text to deactivate the cram could lead to a plethora of unauthorized monthly charges.
The researchers also found that people used text messaging to switch between "identities", such as men who were out with their friends preferring to send their partners text messages rather than talking to them.
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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.
With the myTouch 4G Slide's Hands Free mode, customers can stay connected while on the road with the option for all notifications to be read out loud - simply tell the phone to text or dial to continue the conversation.
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Or using Skype to send text messages to mobile devices anywhere in the world?
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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.
There are artificial tornadoes in glass tubes, a creepy video art installation, a cooperative Pac-Man game, and a place to send text messages to fish.
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The idea is to allow gamers to chat with anyone using Microsoft's instant messaging products--in addition to allowing them to blast text messages to other gamers.
Sites like mint.com can be set up to send text messages to your phone if you start spending more than your target in a particular area.
Obama reached a compromise with his security detail, Gibbs said, that will allow him to send text messages to his senior staff and a small group of close friends.
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For publishers there are editorial tools that editors can use, such as one to add text labels to a particular item in a photo, which will pop up when consumers roll over it.
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By knowing the size and shape of their fields, farmers can then use correct amounts of fertilizer and plan for future soil improvements. eDairy in Sri Lanka also allows farmers to send text messages to a network of veterinarians and extension workers requesting services.
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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They don't intend to text, but they sleep-text because they wake up confused, they grab (their phone) and they're off mumbling in the text message.
It will take Apple's fight with Research in Motion, which has successfully moved from pushing corporate messaging gadgets to selling their products to text-happy teens, to the BlackBerry's home turf.
These typically do not charge for app-to-app calls, but do require the user to buy credit if they want to call or send a text to a standard mobile or landline number.
The company has created a proprietary text-to-video platform that analyzes and understands text-based web content and automatically generates a video clip with a computer generated voice-over and visual effects.
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Four Steps to the Epiphany was the first text to show how startups are different from large companies.
Of course, Gates used the keynote to announce plans of a new technological breakthrough - a font enhancement called ClearType that makes text on an LCD look like text on paper to improve e-books.
In return, users agree to allow small text ads to be placed in their e-mails.
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