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Biometrics - conserns and answers
Blog I mean both behavioral (keystroke dynamics, handwriting) and physical (voice, face and palm) recognition systems. First, I would like to distinguish biometric technologies that do not work or must not work.
[December 14, 2008, 9:03]
A Year Ago: Bluetooth car stereo? Watch Clarion...
News It uses voice recognition technology to enable hands-free communication for the driver and enables mobile devices such as phones, PDAs, notebooks, pagers and so on to be docked. In car entertainment manufacturer Clarion has hinted it will include...
[May 11, 2000, 7:01]
Time to talk-up speech recognition
Blog You'll probably know the company's products more than the company itself - the brand is not exactly out there but then again - neither is voice recognition. Well, that's the message from the head of Europe for speech recognition specialists Nuance.
[October 2, 2007, 18:30]
The ZDNet UK News Mail Room
News Point 1: Dragon System's Naturally Speaking (Preferred Edition) is an outstanding voice recognition program. Got an opinion? Want to add some news of your own? Want to ask a question? Send your comments to The Mailroom
[January 11, 1999, 6:36]
Google's Nexus One shows banality of marketing
Leader With the exception of the server-side voice recognition, it's hard to point to a single significant innovation in the device, and even that feature could — and almost certainly will — appear on other devices soon.
[January 6, 2010, 16:08]
'Meow are you?'
News This announcement comes a year after the firm introduced a similar device -- Bowlingual -- which translates a dog's woofs into words through voice-pattern recognition. Japanese toymaker Takara looks set to herald a new age of communication between...
[July 17, 2003, 8:44]
Comdex '99: Ericsson unveils first Bluetooth product
News Users will be able to answer a ringing phone by pressing a key on the headset, or make a call by pressing a key and using voice recognition to initiate the call. Ericsson has announced its first consumer Bluetooth product.
[November 15, 1999, 10:07]
Medical fears may hamper acceptance of biometrics
Talkback The same can be said for voice recognition, dna scanning, finger print. A lot of these biometric systems give al false sence of security and can easily be hacked. Especialy with home computers. You can plug an iris scanner into your computer get...
[November 3, 2003, 7:19]
E-Books: Getting there, slowly
Talkback PS, can go for a Voice Recognition Dragon NaturallySpeaking This will be a good idea, because I myself find it difficult reading, because my memory is not great, plus I have a physical disability and wheelchair user.
[April 7, 2006, 18:53]
CeBIT 2000: Yopy is first Linux PDA
News Samsung is also planning Bluetooth and voice recognition integration in future iterations. Long after the rumours broke out, Korean electronics giant Samsung has launched its Yopy PDA, which the company says is the first Linux PDA.
[February 25, 2000, 14:41]
Win top prizes in our Christmas giveaway
News Third prize: BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone preloaded with Vlingo voice recognition It's Christmas time, so we're unwrapping a host of prizes in our annual bumper giveaway. This year, we've got one competition running with four great of tech gear...
[December 17, 2009, 17:07]
IBM's new chips slash power consumption
News The chip, which will come out next year, also contains integrated functions for performing data encryption and voice recognition. IBM is coming out with a new line of PowerPC chips that will consume less power by shutting down parts of the chip...
[October 12, 2001, 9:25]
Microsoft tries to stave off Word sale ban
Blog Allvoice apparently thinks Microsoft uses patent-infringing voice recognition technology in Windows XP and Vista, while EMG is targeting Microsoft over Web-viewing software included in Redmond's mobile platforms.
[August 18, 2009, 17:30]
Comdex: KDE backers to form a league of their own
News IBM is expected to contribute to the KDE League an open source, Linux-compatible version of its ViaVoice, its voice-recognition software. On Wednesday at Comdex Fall 2000, the backers of the KDE Linux desktop environment are expected to band...
[November 15, 2000, 14:33]
Biometric devices. Do you need one?
Blog Comment Similarly, I think it's possible to create a reliable biometric identifier by combining voice, gait, iris, face and fingerprint recognition, but not in a useful way. There are two questions here - how much do you trust biometrics, and if they work...
[July 7, 2008, 9:31]
Microsoft hones look of Windows
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has talked up both voice recognition and text-to-speech as two of Microsoft's favoured person-machine interfaces. Microsoft may still be more than a month away from releasing the first beta build of its Windows 2000...
[August 29, 2000, 9:06]
Start-up hops into mini-keyboard market
News Microsoft and others have tried to popularise handwriting or voice recognition as an alternative to typing. FrogPad is out to make the keyboard the size of your palm. The five-employee start-up is actively marketing a fully functional, 20-key...
[November 17, 2003, 14:40]
IBM eyes video-surveillance business
News The company's technology -- from research into image and voice recognition to mining information from large databases -- can augment the capabilities of equipment that many companies already have in place, he said.
[March 12, 2003, 11:15]
Beta of MS Office 10 on the way
News In addition to incorporating voice recognition of common Office application commands, Office 10 also is expected to include text-to-speech and speech-to-text functions, like dictation and email reading capabilities.
[May 16, 2000, 9:52]
Siemens 'confident' on restructuring...
News In addition to seeking out partners in Silicon Valley, the group is focusing heavily in Israel's 'Silicon Wadi' and is involved in over 50 broadband communications, Internet and voice recognition start-ups.
[December 3, 1998, 17:41]
