It looks like Google is on the roll today. Aside from making Google Voice app available for iPad and iPod Touch, Google has also introduced a new feature to its Voice Search app for Android devices running 2.2. This new feature called personalized recognition is aimed at building a more accurate model by listening to more »

The latest update to this handy GPS software, 1.7i, adds new features that have completely changed how I use this navigation software. From speech recognition (on-phone this time) to better graphics to lane assist, TeleNav (the folks behind the software) have outdone themselves. The iPhone app is much handier and safer to use. Upon launching more »

There can’t be many people who have been on the internet, and not also been on YouTube, and the home video craze has really caught on. This is both good and bad: it makes videos more accessible but leaves the door open for happy slapping idiots trying to make a name for themselves. And recently another problem has arisen, it’s starting to get a bit too big.

With a reported 13 hours of video being uploaded every minute it is becoming increasingly difficult to find the video that you want, however specific you are. So new techniques are needed, and there are plans to use voice recognition to automatically convert the words into metadata which in turn is embedded in the video meaning key words can be searched for with increased effectiveness. It also means, if you know what video you are looking for, you can directly quote from the video and thus find it easily.

The voice-to-text conversion service industry is not yet too crowded, so I guess there’s room for one more player in Nuance Communications’ VoiceMail to Text service for converting voicemail into a readable text. Nuance’s Voicemail to Text service is a network dependent mobile service that allows users to read voice messages left on their phone mailboxes.

Although we’ve heard about this kind of service before, Nuance is nonetheless touting its advanced speech recognition technology backed by 3,000 transcriptionists to deliver accurate, scalable, reliable and flexible transcription of voice messages. Nuance also uses what it calls the Dragon Naturally Speaking speech recognition technology for converting voicemail into text that users can read, edit, save, forward, index and archive to read them some other time.