speech recognition
Online
Google Adding Automatic Captions To YouTube Videos
3:15AM Adam Frucci | Google is bringing its Google Voice speech recognition tech to YouTube, creating automatic captions for deaf and hearing-impaired users. Get ready for hilariously incorrect captions! More »
Phones
‘Top Secret’ Zumba Voice-Controlled Phone Looks Like Spy Gear, Smells Like Vapour
9:27PM John Herrman | 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. More »
Networks
AT&T Bringing (a Tiny, Frustrating Bit Of) Speech Recognition to the iPhone, Others
6:10AM Gizmodo US Edition | 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. More »
Peripherals
Direct Voxx Muso is Natural-Speech Voice Recognition Dongle for iPod nano
6:48PM Kit Eaton | 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. More »
Software
PhoneTag “Hacked” For GrandCentral, Converts Voicemail to E-Mail
12:00AM Benny Goldman | 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. More »
_
F-35 Lightning II’s Speech Recognition Controls to Open All Kinds of Fucked-Up Possibilities
11:15PM Jesus Diaz | 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 »
_
iPhone Speech Recognition Demo from VoiceSignal
5:40AM Charlie White | We’ve heard of VoiceSignal speech recognition for lots of other phones, but now VoiceSignal sent us a video that allegedly shows it working for the first time on the iPhone. According to the guy in the clip, a couple of VoiceSignal engineers designed this app, but all we see it doing so far is controlling music on the iPhone. Let’s hope it’s for real. Sure would be nice to be able to use speech commands with the iPhone, telling it to call so-and-so on those mic-equipped earbuds while keeping the phone in the pocket. [VoiceSignal] More »
_
