Speech Recognition in the News

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Thoughts on Jott
User: kmaclean
Date: 5/16/2008 11:17 am
Views: 3433
Rating: 15

Jott is a service that "converts your voice into emails, text messages, reminders, lists and appointments".  You just call a number with your phone (landline or mobile), speak your message, and it converts it to an email and sends where you want it to go.  They offer this service for free (they are still in beta) - no invite required.

What is amazing from a speech recognition perspective is that they can recognize an unconstrained vocabulary over the phone. Up until a short time ago, most phone-based speech recognition systems could only recognize a predefined combinations of certain key words (described in a grammar file) - think of speech-based IVR systems where you say: "tech support" to route you to a support representative.  Speech recognition using unconstrained grammars were limited to desktop based SR systems because of the size of language model that was required, and the amount of speech audio required to create a viable acoustic model.

Very impressive.

Other similar services include:

Ken
More speech-enabled services
User: kmaclean
Date: 7/29/2008 8:08 am
Views: 447
Rating: 38

"personal assistant" services

  • Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by just calling a number and speaking. Use it to send EMAIL or TEXT messages, record REMINDERS.
  • reQuall - memory tool that works with each technology, from phone, to web browser, to instant messaging and news feeds
Voice search:
  • talkhouse - voice search engine. Use any keyword or phrase just like in routine Internet searches to find a song in your music library, look up an entry in a manual, or confirm availability of an inventory part while your customer is on the other line.
  • vlingo - used to voice-enabled the Yahoo! oneSearch™ application
  • Google's Voice Local Search
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