Speech recognition has come a long way in the last years, even though the technology still requires training to reduce the error margin. The requirements for speech recognition technologies are a capable microphone or webcam, and a software or operating system supporting the technology. Up until now, mainly dictation software and software for disabled people [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

You might have heard this story before. Microsoft was holding a press conference in which they wanted to demonstrate the voice recognition capabilities of the upcoming Windows Vista operating system. Unfortunately for Microsoft the voice recognition did not work as intended.

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

Blinx is a new type of search engine that indexes tv, video and podcasts and converts the audio into searchable text. The creators claim that they are tracking over 15.000 video blogs and podcasts for their search engine.

Categories: Search Engines