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Speaking Linux Released
News A speaking version of Linux, designed to give the visually impaired an experience of open source computing, has been launched by software firms Slackware and Speakup. The talking distribution called ZipSpeak, is developed from version 7.0 of Zip...
[March 27, 2000, 11:52]
Quality Assessment Of Data Collected From Non-English Speaking Households In The American Community Survey
White Papers Currently, there is little research investigating differences in data quality between English and non-English speaking households. To better understand if differences exist, this paper reports results from a quantitative assessment of data...
[February 5, 2007, 23:00]
Do We Live In A Small World? Measuring The Spanish-Speaking Blogosphere
White Papers The Spanish-speaking blogosphere contains several thousand blogs; despite its small size, compared to the English-speaking (or maybe global) blogosphere, its characteristics are a bit different. This paper shows the experience in developing...
[August 26, 2004, 0:00]
E-Speaking Voice And Speech Recognition
Downloads A comprehensive voice and speech recognition program to use your voice for command & control of your computer and dictation. Reduce or eliminate mouse clicks or keyboard input. Open Web sites, documents, or programs using your voice.
[February 21, 2008, 3:16]
Speaking Of Witch Hunts...
Talkback Speaking of witch hunts, it's amazing how many news outlets picked up this headline and ran with it. >> Thousands of pages beceause it is a better, richer standard that enables many features that ODF does not (backward compatibility with billions...
[February 1, 2008, 8:37]
HP World: HP, Oracle On 'e-speaking' Terms
News Oracle endorsed Hewlett-Packard's "e-speak" technology Tuesday as part of a partnership the two announced at HP World '99 Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Oracle will build support for e-speak into its Oracle 8i database, and the two companies...
[August 18, 1999, 8:36]
Technically Speaking
White Papers This webcast addresses in-depth technical issues and procedures related to NetLink Wireless Telephones and compatible equipment.
[December 10, 2003, 23:00]
Technically Speaking, Digital Radio Is A Step Up
News So digital radio is coming to the masses, but just how improved will our digital listening experience really be, and will it truly justify the price tag of a brand new digital receiver for the house and car?
[August 26, 1999, 17:19]
Visually Speaking: The Role Of Visual Design In Successful E-Learning
White Papers Attract, Map, and Enable. When applied in an e-learning environment, these words describe what successful Visual Design actually does for the learner. When meaningful content and strong Instructional Design are combined with this kind of visual...
[August 1, 2004, 0:00]
Speech Synthesizer
Downloads Speech Synthesizer is a great text-to-speech synthesizer for children to learn English speaking and vocabulary. The TTS software runs on all Windows systems and has adjustable speaking speeds, as well as an aesthetically designed user interface.
[April 28, 2005, 17:35]
Teambuilding: How To Establish Group Think
News Group Think is about speaking the same language Individuals seem to be speaking different languages, and you can't get them to work together. Lynne Wardell calls this confusion the Chaos Period, and she calls its antithesis Group Think.
[August 20, 2002, 15:04]
Sony's Robot Dog Learns To Talk
News Researchers at Sony's Computer Science Laboratory in France have succeeded in creating a version of the company's robot dog AIBO capable of speaking. Kaplan hopes that eventually the robot creature will be able to interact with humans by speaking...
[September 28, 2000, 15:41]
Dragon Releases New Voice Technology
News Dragon Systems has upped the ante for speech recognition systems, claiming a 95 percent accuracy rate after just five minutes' training with version 4 of its Naturally Speaking software. The new version of Naturally Speaking has been localised for...
[September 9, 1999, 15:57]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback The British are the only people who speak propoer English because they invented the language.All other English speaking countries (including USA) use an "accent".Why do you make fun of the Indian accent when your own accent is not perfect?
[August 2, 2006, 19:25]
VoIP Hacks: Skype With Your Home Phone
White Papers However, the author always has a hard time with how it feels to be speaking to a computer. Instead of the secure feeling of an old-school phone receiver, the author is uncomfortable speaking into a USB headset or, worse still, speaking into his...
[October 24, 2007, 0:00]
Mobile User Arrested For 'disturbing The Peace'
News For one woman in the Washington, D.C.area, it came to a head recently when she was arrested, reportedly for speaking too loudly near a bus stop. According to a story in Tuesday's Washington Post, a transit police officer thought that the woman was...
[September 29, 2004, 14:15]
Seductive Virus Has Sobering Consequence
News But unless you live in a German-speaking country, the email is not nearly so exotic. The virus is also programmed to launch itself at the English-speaking world, but under the subject header of "delivery failure" or "oh god" in the hope that a user...
[November 19, 2004, 14:15]
Chris Patten: Politicians Have No Grasp Of Technology
News Patten, a former EU Commissioner, was speaking at the three-day conference in Nice, France, on European business and technology. What often happens is you get somebody speaking technical jargon to someone who doesn't understand the basics," said...
[October 26, 2006, 16:40]
The ZDNet UK News Mail Room
News Still waiting for a Naturally Speaking sample. 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?
[January 11, 1999, 6:36]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback You and I both would be speaking Japanese and/or German if the U.S.had not made the decision to drop those two bombs. And then if that happened and we were speaking Japanese or German, others would hurl insults (in Japanese or German) at the U.S...
[October 17, 2006, 18:36]
