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If I were Apple I'd launch the iPhone with Nuance speech recognition
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If I were Apple I'd launch the iPhone with Nuance speech recognition | If I were Apple I'd launch the iPhone with Nuance speech recognition |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Sunday, 03 December 2006 | |
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Page 1 of 2 A month ago, Nuance, the people who brought you the Dragon Naturally Speaking speech recognition software for PCs, launched the Nuance Mobile Speech Platform, billed as a "groundbreaking architecture of tools and components that provides mobile application developers with the ability to enhance their offerings with a seamless speech experience – from advanced speech recognition to natural text-to-speech – that dramatically enhances usability." That mouthful really does not do it justice. In a nutshell what it promises is to render redundant any need to input commands to a cellphone using buttons or by navigating through screen menus: You simply talk to the phone. Your speech is digitised and sent via GPRS, or other packet data channel back to a central server which does the voice recognition. Whether you want to use 'phone' functions such as dialling or sending SMS, or you want to search for and download content such as ringtones song tracks and movies, Nuance can make the process hands-free. Speech recognition has come a long way of late, on two fronts: the ability to recognise spoken words without prior training (Nuance claims 98 percent out-of-the-box accuracy for the latest version of Dragon Naturally Speaking) and the ability to understand free from speech. |
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