"The very first species the trust helped was the echo parakeet in Mauritius, " Mrs Hales said.
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In a sense, all Parakeet is doing is allowing the user to see which alternative words or sentences the program would have predicted.
The report was also able to follow the movements of a ring-necked parakeet around London, as the British range of this colourful bird expanded.
In the Big Garden Birdwatch 2006, the ring-neck parakeet was among the 20 most-sighted birds in London, seen in all 33 boroughs and jumping from 19th place in 2005 to 15th.
The collection contains data on about 900 bird species, some of which -- the Guadalupe storm-petrel, Labrador duck, Guadalupe caracara, great auk, Carolina parakeet and passenger pigeon -- have gone extinct.
With the likes of Google, Nuance and Vlingo now offering mobile speech-recognition services for phones, and the development of speech-driven systems for use in vehicles, Parakeet may be flying into a growing market.
Their solution, called Parakeet, is a touch-screen-based interface for phones and other mobile devices, which not only displays the words, phrases or sentences that scored highest in the program's statistical model, but also any close contenders.
With the likes of Google, Nuance and Vlingo now offering mobile speech-recognition services for phones, and the development of entertainment systems and vehicle communication, such as Ford's Sync platform, Parakeet may be flying into a growing market.
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