September 14, 2011
Nuance’s iPhone apps, Dragon and Dragon Search have been available for free download for over a year now. Since then, the company has added a few other similar voice to text apps to its line of desktop and mobile applications. It’s even rumored that Nuance has partnered with Apple to infuse voice commands within the next iPhone.
August 30, 2011
Typing on a tiny touchscreen is not an inherently fun activity. I can’t remember the last time I heard someone say “Gosh, I love how I keep making embarrassing typos with this tiny keyboard!” Thankfully, there are some very smart people who are working to make typing on a portable device a more bearable experience.
June 18, 2011
Recently, Google added a notable feature to their browser: support for the HTML speech input API which enabled developers to allow web applications to transcribe users’ voice to text. This means that site owners can now add voice recognition features to their websites. When a webpage has this feature, users can speak into their microphone and the recorded audio is then typed out.
June 9, 2011
If you’re an Android user, you’ve probably already heard that there’s in-built voice recognition software and text-to-speech capability. But have you used it? Did you know it works pretty darn well? Android’s voice software is easy to customise and is already ready to use RIGHT NOW on your Android phone. There’s no need to scour the Android market for decent speech-to-text software because you already have access to it.
February 23, 2011
When you do a lot of phone interviews that get published in text format on the web, transcribing audio files becomes a big part of one’s life. There are a lot of people that have the need to transcribe voice to text, such as doctor’s that record a log of office visits, journalists that conduct [...]
August 26, 2010
Recently, I was working on a story involving a person that made a phone call, which was recorded. That person later refused to admit that they’d ever made the call at all. With the recorded voice from the phone call and a clip of the person denying the accusation, I set to work trying to [...]
August 10, 2010
Those who do a lot of audio to text transcriptions know only too well that even with the help of a digital player, digital word processor, and the ability to type using ten fingers at an amazing speed, transcribing is still a challenging task. Especially because catching what other people say is not as easy [...]
September 28, 2009
Have you ever found yourself having one of those mind-numbing moments when you’ve fallen in love with a new song that played on the radio a few times, but you can’t remember the title or the lyrics? Here at MakeUseOf, we’ve focused on a number of websites and tools that you can use to find [...]
March 18, 2009
“Computer, how many Romulan battleships are there?” Captain Kirk said. “Ten” a soft female voice answered. “What’s our chance of survival?” “Zero percent.” Kirk smiled and said “Computer, increase the shield to maximum.” He sat on his chair on the bridge “and play me some Mozart.” “Affirmative.” Then the scene from my imaginary episode of [...]
