Hunting down and correcting misspellings, for example, can be a time-consuming process with voice-recognition.
Like MyCyberTwin, Siri, originally a spin-off from Stanford University, is a mix of cognitive, self-learning software and advanced voice-recognition.
Voice-recognition software and devices controlled by eye and mouth movements are to be developed for use by special needs pupils.
Technological feats such as self-driving cars and voice-recognition and translation programmes, not long ago a distant hope, are now realities.
While direct dictation garners the most attention for voice-recognition programs, it's the ability to launch and control applications that impresses MacSpeech's Rogers.
That could prove just as disastrous for IBM and Dragon Systems' competing voice-recognition software as the decision to bundle the Explorer Web browser was for Netscape.
The application combines voice-recognition technology with Google's search index and the iPhone's ability to track a user's location to offer results keyed to his or her whereabouts.
Mr Molyneux said that commands such as these were interpreted by Milo using voice-recognition software along with a database that attempted to interpret the players intonation and meaning.
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Earlier this year, Google, which develops the Chrome browser, released software that allows developers to add voice-recognition to their Web pages, so users can browse the Web by speaking.
Firms like Samsung and LG are inventing new types of handheld devices with voice-recognition and big screens to help people defend their virtual castles no matter where they are.
To cut down on those costs, the USPS created a self-service Web site and set up a phone line with voice-recognition software, either one of which lets users reset passwords on their own.
He went on to found several tech companies and to launch groundbreaking products, including the voice-recognition system Interpath Inc. in 1981, McAfee in 1988, and the instant messaging pioneer Tribal Voice in 1996.
The move helps plug a gaping hole in the iPhone's capabilities--voice recognition--while pitting Google against Microsoft, whose Tellme unit has long sought to bridge the gap between phones and the Web with voice recognition-enabled applications.
Leveraging industry-leading voice-recognition software, integrated GPS technology and a customer's Bluetooth-capable mobile phone, SYNC with Traffic, Directions and Information provides simple hands-free access to personalized traffic reports, precise turn-by-turn driving directions and up-to-date information including business listings, news, sports and weather.
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Modeled after the information and e-commerce transactions available on the Web, the latest in information technology starts with a telephone number that you'll be able to dial to reach a computer that hears and guides your requests and answers them using voice-recognition technology.
Microsoft's sprawling business division now competes with Cisco for the business of digitizing office voice communications (bolstered by Raikes' acquisition of voice-recognition software specialist Tellme last March) and Elop will have to take on online threats to Microsoft's productivity software, such as the free online productivity tools offered by Google, as well.
Microsoft's sprawling business division now competes with Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) for the business of digitizing office voice communications (bolstered by Raikes' acquisition of voice-recognition software specialist Tellme last March) and Elop will have to take on online threats to Microsoft's productivity software, such as the free online productivity tools offered by Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), as well.
The company has also included a voice-enabled password to access OS9, which uses voice-print recognition.
The ongoing assessment and treatment by the paramedics could be available to the hospital-based team supporting them, and the documentation might not even require touching the computer because of voice navigation, voice recognition and noise-cancelling microphones developed for an environment as noisy as combat.
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The little creature's also got four additional touch sensors, a temperature sensor, a gravity sensor and an internal clock to tell the time of day, improved motors, and basic voice recognition -- and the Hong Kong packaging suggests the dinos will even come in two different sexes.
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Like Kinect, these solutions will have a pair of 640 x 480 camera sensors to measure user position in 3D space, but don't expect them to have motorized tilt functionality or voice recognition -- PrimeSense said it won't be able to make those available for manufacturers, as they're all Microsoft ideas.
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Nearly everyone offers a high-MP camera, many with both rear and front facing lens, voice recognition, multiple-processors, music, video, and potential payment mechanisms through incorporation of Near Field Communication chips.
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Microsoft was clearly thinking along those lines when it acquired much larger voice recognition start-up TellMe earlier this year.
In fact, it is an almost certainty that within the next few years, three biometric options will become standard features in every new phone: a fingerprint scanner built into the screen, facial recognition powered by high-definition cameras, and voice recognition based off a large collection of your vocal samples.
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Technologies such as electronic ink, 3D controllers, flexible displays, voice recognition and solid-state mass storage are rapidly approaching mass market commercialization price points.
Iwata also demonstrated several of the DS's new software titles featuring the innovative features of the DS: voice recognition, touch-screen control and, of course, WiFi.
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In-car navigation, voice recognition, and MP3 support were still the stuff of science fiction in those dark days (particularly at the four-digit asking price), and the whole thing was doomed to a geeky, spendy niche.
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Call-centres aside, a lot of companies are becoming keen on speech recognition because of its scope for voice-activated dialling.
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