Typing is not something that people enjoy. Even after you have become quite good at it and picked up speed, it is not something that you look forward to, particularly when you need to type up long essays or passages for a project. Thankfully there are various user-friendly speech to text applications available that help [...]
Speech-to-text technology helps us out in various ways. Normally the technology is used by us to have text automatically typed on our computers or to have our smartphones accept voice commands. But how convenient would it be if you could simply use speech-to-text to take down notes, take meeting records, and more all using your [...]
Speech-to-text is a blessing for everybody who hates to type on the computer. Normally however the feature is absent from web browsers thereby forcing you to type text in webpages. But a very useful tool called Oweb Voice Input changes that. Oweb Voice Input is a browser tool that adds speech-to-text to your web browser. [...]
Numerous websites have text boxes in them for you to type text in them. For short text inputs, typing is a convenient option to input text but for longer texts, you might want to consider a speech-to-text option. “Talk to Type” is a browser tool that lets you add text onto webpage via talking into your microphone. [...]
Would you not love an application that increases your productivity, and allows you to multi-task while keeping in touch with the latest news, e-mails, Facebook updates, etc.? Voice Brief is just the application for you. Voice Brief is an application for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with iOS 4.3 or later that allows users to [...]
People often prepare for speeches in the mirror but it is hard to judge yourself while delivering the speech. You need a convenient way to record your speech and then play it to see how well you did. Here to offer that is an app called Video Recording Teleprompter. Video Recording Teleprompter is an iOS [...]
Public speaking is something that makes many of us nervous. This is why people often shy away from delivering speeches. If you are one of these people, you could benefit from reading and listening to speeches delivered by popular leaders. An app called Leaders Talk inspires you in this way. Leaders Talk is a wonderful [...]
When you are in the middle of a task and reminded to add something to your to-do list, you are often discouraged by the thought of using your phone’s keypad to type the entire task. Thus apps that let you create to-do lists should support speech-to-text so you can quickly add tasks to list by [...]
Voice professionals have to always consider the pace of their speech. But normally they only have their judgment to rely on. What they need is an indicative tool that helps them monitor the pace at which they are speaking. PaceRecorder is precisely that tool. PaceRecorder is a free to use phone application for Android devices [...]
People with medical conditions that prevent them from speaking properly usually use electronic solutions, devices through which they can speak by selecting words. Such electronic solutions are referred to as “assisted speech solutions”. A free and user-friendly app that performs this function on the iPad is Verbally. Verbally is the first free Augmentative and Alternative [...]
You might have heard about Dragon Speech Recognition, an advanced speech recognition tool that has versions for various operating systems. The tool is a bit costly but if you already own it and have an iOS device like an iPhone then you might want to use their free Dragon Remote App. It can turn your [...]
You are debating amongst your friends how the phrase “faux paus” is pronounced but don’t have access to any computer to book to confirm. SayIt can help in such situations. Simply send a text message to a local US number with the word and the tool will call you back within a few seconds with [...]
Web based pronunciation dictionary that can help you with the pronunciation. Type in any English word (or saying) and listen to how it should be pronounced. Mouse over the search results to hear them pronounced. Each word is individually pre-recorded and no form of synthetic speech is used. Offers both American and British versions. More [...]
Vozme is a simple online ‘text to speech’ program that lets you type-in any English or Spanish text and then play it as an audio stream. Streams also can be downloaded and saved as standard MP3 files. Feature Overview Instantly convert desired text to MP3 file. Supported languages: English and Spanish. Download and Save converted [...]
Odiogo provides bloggers (publishers) with a text to speech service that converts RSS feeds or articles into audio format. Odiogo empowers you to convert your blog posts into high quality audio files and offer your visitors a way to (1) listen to published articles right from your website, and (2) download audio posts to iPods, [...]