Much of the critical technology is provided by Nuance Communications, a leader in speech recognition.
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Remember Spinvox, the voicemail transcription service which seemed to have cracked seamless machine-based speech recognition?
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Optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition are among the fields he has contributed singificantly to.
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For example, in my report I rate the speech recognition prediction as partially correct.
Yet speech recognition depends on dictionaries of words and sounds that are hugely expensive to compile.
Already advanced speech recognition systems can be found in smartphones and most modern computer operating systems.
Games, graphics, Internet plug-ins, and speech recognition applications can take particularly good advantage of the new instructions.
Those four technical challenges are: the knowledge graph, speech recognition, natural language understanding and (understanding) conversation, he said.
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Speech recognition is translating the human voice into text, which is key to things like searching by voice.
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With the addition of speech recognition, Scout makes it safer, faster and simpler to search for nearby destinations.
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Unlike Apple's Siri and Samsung's S Voice, it can handle speech recognition offline, which makes it very fast.
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Google also used the technology to cut the error rate on speech recognition in its latest Android mobile software.
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Sadly, most of the most exciting new features -- offline speech recognition, Google Now -- don't work.
It has also added the ability to type using speech recognition without needing to be connected to the net.
Call-centres aside, a lot of companies are becoming keen on speech recognition because of its scope for voice-activated dialling.
Researchers are leveraging decades of speech recognition expertise to deliver a connected, voice-enabled virtual assistant for use by automotive manufacturers.
Additionally, the secondary unit is connected to a motorized touchscreen LCD and responds to your voice thanks to the included speech recognition software.
Clayton is the owner of eight patents and is considered one of the leaders in the digital speech recognition movement.
By 2020, technology will have made such rapid progress, that speech recognition by a computer will exceed that of a human.
Scout also now comes with free speech recognition, allowing users to conduct hands-free local business and address searches with voice commands.
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But when it comes to speech recognition, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) is way out front.
But we know which approaches had the biggest commercial success: search engines, speech recognition, machine translation, word sense disambiguation, and other technologies.
But when it comes to speech recognition, Microsoft is way out front.
This makes them a better choice for what are termed parallalisable tasks such as drawing graphics on a screen or speech recognition.
Using big data, Google has vastly accelerated the evolution of speech recognition.
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Mobiles will continue to get steadily better, with higher resolution touch-screens, speech recognition that really works and much greater memory and storage capabilities.
I'm talking about speech recognition, back in the news because it is one of the most significant features of Apple's latest phone.
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Sure, it's hardly perfect: "I have yet to have a really good speech recognition experience, " says Greg DeMichillie, lead analyst, Directions on Microsoft.
Golden-i is a full PC, runs Microsoft OS. offers unique Hands-Free user interface: advanced speech recognition in 26 languages with 6 axis gesture recognition.
Nuance Communications shares are trading sharply higher Monday morning on speculation that the speech recognition technology company could be an acquisition target for Apple.
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