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January 26, 2008 11:16 AM PST

The coming wave of gadgets that listen and obey

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Devices that incorporate speech recognition are starting to hit the mass market, giving users the ability to let their mouths do the walking--and the searching.
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SpeechToText and SpeechToSearch are powerful solutions
by Manhattan2 January 27, 2008 6:20 AM PST
I work for some engineers that have been working on these technologies for a decade. Most of their work was driven by a seeingaid device they have designed. For communication to the device speech to search and speech to text solutions will be utilized. I think they just listed SpeechToText.com up for sale to fund more of their work for the vision impaired.
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