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Win a BlackBerry with Vlingo voice recognition review
Reviews The third prize in ZDNet UK's Christmas competition is the new, slimmed-down BlackBerry Bold 9700, which comes preloaded with Vlingo Plus voice-recognition technology. Reviews editors over at CNET, ZDNet UK's sister site, rated the Vlingo software...
[December 17, 2009, 15:44]
Microsoft Voice Command review
Reviews Not to be confused with a comprehensive speech-recognition program, such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking, where the computer transcribes speech to text, Voice Command allows you to perform only basic tasks, such as launching programs and your next...
[November 9, 2004, 11:18]
Orange Smart City-Coupé review
Reviews Voice recognition is aided by noise reduction and echo cancellation. Subtle nuances and stresses in your vocal inflexion can affect the recognition process. Road and engine noise can confuse the speech recognition system when you’re driving the...
[November 27, 2003, 8:50]
ViaVoice Pro USB Edition 10 review
Reviews Like most consumer-level voice-recognition applications, ViaVoice 10 offers the usual complement of tools and functions, including voice dictation, a text-to-speech engine and voice-enabled application control.
[January 31, 2003, 10:27]
New chipsets underpin Intel's latest desktop PC platform review
Reviews It also supports array microphones with up to 16 elements, a rather under-utilised technology that's useful for noise-cancelling voice recognition systems. Intel's High Definition Audio supports array microphones with up to 16 elements -- useful...
[June 19, 2004, 8:30]
ViaVoice Pro USB Edition 9.0 review
Reviews Office XP's own speech recognition mode makes you manually switch between dictation and program control by clicking a button on the toolbar. If you need only an occasional built-in typist, Office XP's speech recognition engine may suffice.
[July 18, 2002, 11:56]
PaceBlade PaceBook review
Reviews The PaceBook comes with an excellent noise-cancelling headset as well as a built-in microphone, and although voice and handwriting recognition are surprisingly usable, they're still not good enough to make the keyboard redundant.
[April 2, 2002, 0:00]
Dell Axim X50 review
Reviews The top of the device houses a 3.5mm headphone/headset jack that accepts Walkman-style headphones and supports VoIP and voice-recognition programs. There's a lanyard hook, a lock switch, a wireless on/off button and a voice-record button.
[October 14, 2004, 11:25]
Olympus DM-20 Conference Kit review
Reviews If you were expecting advanced transcription or voice recognition tools to accompany the DM-20 Conference Kit, you may be a little disappointed, as Olympus has only bundled Windows Media Player 9, Acrobat Reader 5 and the main utility, the DSS...
[April 1, 2004, 9:35]
Ericsson T68i review
Reviews We were also impressed with the T68i's voice-recognition features, which allow you to dial contacts by saying the person's name as well as answer your phone and navigate menus using voice commands. The T68i bears an uncanny resemblance to the Nokia...
[August 15, 2002, 8:58]
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (Public Beta) review
Reviews Other core components of OCS provide speech recognition, speech output and management tools for telephony systems. The public beta also contains tools that are used from within Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1 to develop voice response applications.
[June 8, 2007, 10:57]
Logitech Premium Notebook Headset review
Reviews We tested the headset with Sound Recorder on Windows XP and on Windows Vista and practiced giving voice commands and dictating a letter using Vista's built-in speech recognition tools. It's worth noting that the USB port is for voice applications...
[March 8, 2007, 12:45]
Office XP: productivity innovations review
Reviews If you're looking for an alternative to keyboard input, then Office XP has speech and handwriting recognition, although Outlook 2002 does not support it. Handwriting recognition is rather impressive: it gets even the scratchiest text input from a...
[May 30, 2001, 0:00]
Motion LE1600 review
Reviews If you use speech-recognition software, the three-mic array allows you to dictate (under reasonably quiet conditions) without having to use a headset. Although the handwriting recognition in Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 is excellent...
[July 21, 2005, 11:35]
OmniPage Pro 14 Office review
Reviews We tested OmniPage with various documents, and the recognition accuracy and formatting retention were noticeably better than those of its predecessor as well as those of Abbyy’s FineReader 7.0. You can even use speech recognition to launch saved...
[January 27, 2004, 12:45]
Palm Tungsten W review
Reviews Among these is Jot, a character recognition tool. It's also possible to speed-dial a voice call from the Palm Address Book. Apart from its voice and data capability, the Tungsten W is a fair stretch away from the cutting edge.
[May 1, 2003, 10:28]
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Mobile review
Reviews Speech recognition speed is very good. The computer-generated voice is potentially useful for reading out texts you have not dictated -- from a Web site, for example. Listening to your own voice is useful when checking through text you've written...
[April 8, 2005, 9:30]
Speech recognition software review
Reviews If you are unable or unwilling to use the PC's keyboard for text and data entry, you need to consider buying a speech recognition application. You can also surf the Web and control your PC using voice commands.
[July 19, 2002, 9:12]
Windows Longhorn: more details emerge review
Reviews Last week, Microsoft showed off Longhorn's support for ink handwriting recognition (sticky notes) and voice. By all accounts, the next version of Windows will be a long time coming. Code-named Longhorn, the OS isn't due until sometime in 2006.
[November 11, 2003, 7:40]
Inside Windows Vista February CTP review
Reviews Speech recognition Like Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Microsoft allows you to open and close applications by voice. The release of Windows Vista February 2006 CTP build 5308 provides, perhaps, a final private glimpse inside the new Windows operating...
[February 23, 2006, 9:45]
