Amazon has, apparently, ponied up for a speech recognition company called Yap, The Atlantic reports. More »
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Today, YouTube is rolling out automatic captioning for all videos uploaded to the service, using Google’s speech recognition service. You can see a demo in the video above. More »
newVideoPlayer("/zumbaphone.flv", 506, 282,""); In this video, the BBC takes us inside the top secret headquarters of IA Technology, where the former ejector seat company is working on the “world’s first fully accurate voice recognition phone,” the Zumba.
newVideoPlayer("/speechmashup.flv", 506, 282,""); AT&T’s Speech Mashups is a web-based service that will bring voice-activated search to the iPhone, as well as other Edge and 3G handsets. Instead of managing speech recognition on the actual handset, Speech Mashups sends the audio sample to the server, processes it and sends back a text transcription or command to your phone. Unfortunately for iPhone owners, this does not mean voice dialing or speech-to-text app support. Not at all.
There are plenty of iPod cradles that let you remote control the device, some built-in to cars, but Direct Voxx has come up with the Muso that lets you do it by voice. It’s an interesting bit of kit that doesn’t require training to understand you, and lets you demand particular tracks, scan through playlists, pause and resume playing music just by speaking in natural language like “play California Dreaming by the Mamas and the Papas.” Check out the video to see it in action.
PhoneTag, the gang who turns voicemail into text, has “hacked” Google’s GrandCentral. The service that consolidates all of your phone numbers into one is useful for people on the go, but its voicemail system is clunky, especially for those needing fast access to messages. That’s what makes this hack so clever.
The Air Force has announced that in addition to their helmet designed in insects hell, their upcoming F-35 Lightning II will be the first plane with speech recognition, designed to manage “various aircraft subsystems.” I don’t know how good the speech recognition system is, but I hope the list of subsystems doesn’t include “Weapons,” “Emergency Eject” or “Egg Freckles.” Really, did these people ever watch Firefox? [Air Force Link] More »
