Nuance, the amazing voice-recognition technology behind Siri and other voice-recognition software on phones, has announced that they’ll be bringing their voice tech to TVs now with Dragon TV. Basically, Nuance wants you to talk to your TVs. And since Apple is supposedly making an HDTV that let’s you talk to the TV, this is getting VERY interesting.
So the story goes that at WWDC, the Nuance team working on Apple’s (still officially unconfirmed) voice control were surprised when their Dictation demo was swapped out at the last minute. Since then we’ve seen a leaked settings screen, even though the tech hasn’t been in any current iOS 5 betas. Until now it seems. New files reportedly uncovered in beta 5 indicate there will be a microphone option on the universal pop up keyboard.
Nuance just added support for Aussie accents and idioms, and expanded its SDK so local devs can add voice features in their iOS and Android apps. That’s pretty cool, but I wonder if this now means that Aussies won’t be left speechless in iOS 5 and the next iPhone. Here’s why.
Apple’s mammoth North Carolina server farm just got a little less mysterious. Fitting a (very big) piece into the Siri buyout puzzle, Apple’s reportedly holding hands with the voice recognition experts at Nuance to give your next iPhone speech superpowers.
A full year since the Dragon Dictation App launched on the US app store, developers Nuance have finally released the voice recognition software for Australians. And it’s free for a limited time!
