Data comes in many different ways—from audio to visual to tactile. Sometimes, one of the hardest things can be to convert this data from one form to another. Converting data from audio to visual (i.e. sound to sight) isn’t very hard to do for a human, but it can be very time consuming and tedious. MacSpeech’s Scribe aims to aid in that department with a piece of software that will load and then analyze an audio clip into text.

Voice technology is the wave of the future, and behind that Wave is Nuance. They are behind nearly every implementation of voice recognition of which you are aware. They’re everywhere; from the voice systems at AT&T and Vonage, to MacSpeech, GPS units, in-car units, and so much more. At CES 2010, I sat down with a few of the guys at Nuance to have a little chat.

Talking to inanimate objects has become more accepted in the past years, mostly thanks to Bluetooth headsets. But you can take it a step further by talking directly to your computer! MacSpeech Dictate is the premier dictation software to turn your spoken words into typed text without ever needing to touch a keyboard. It’s really quite amazing the accuracy that MacSpeech Dictate has when translating your spoken words into typed text.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking, developed by Nuance software, is one of the world’s best speech recognition applications for Windows – and my favorite, too. If you’ve ever tried Windows Vista’s built-in speech recognition, you would know how bad it is – but this is not the case with Dragon. NaturallySpeaking does what the name says, you speak more »