OK, I had my fun with Siri last week testing the limits of its Australian accent recognition. Time to get down to more serious work — what can you actually use Siri for?
It’s official. The human arm is now a vestigial limb. It no longer serves a purpose now that you can search Google with naught more than the melodious sound of your voice.
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.
If you a hear a word in regular conversation that you don’t know, it can be hard to look it up if you don’t know how to spell it. Instead, just throw it at Google Voice Search to get an accurate definition.
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!
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Similar to OnStar’s September launch of voice-activated Facebook and texting, Windows Embedded Automotive 7 has evolved to enable voice commands that let you keep in touch without touching your phone.
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Using the iPhone and Android phones as touch remotes is effectively old school at this point. Next up, telling your TV what to watch – which is what’s next for AT&T and likely, U-Verse customers.
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Passwords can be forgotten, but you’ll never misplace your face. And this handy bit of tech, that uses voice and facial recognition on your phone to access protected apps, shows off why we really need front-facing phone cameras.
