Tag: SPEECH

Google released a Google Translate Web app for iPhone users back in 2008, but now the Apple crowd has a native Google Translate iPhone app. Available in the App Store now, the free Google Translate app includes speak-to-translate for 15 languages, a full screen mode, and the ability to listen to translations in 23 languages. The iPhone app doesn't have Android's on-the-fly "conversation mode," ...

Google has announced that it's acquired Phonetic Arts, a UK-based company that synthesizes voices for games. Phonetic Arts has software that can convert recordings of a human voice into a pretty accurate automated voice, which has plenty of applications outside the gaming world. Sounds like a good match for Google, which does a lot of voice recognition -- in Google Voice voicemail and YouTube ...

Google had originally pegged December 2010 for the first release of Chrome OS, but it's been looking like a fall release is now a safe bet. It's certainly netbook-ready at this point, though some missing features (like an on-screen keyboard) may mean that tablet devices arrive slightly later. Developers keep plugging ahead, however, and continue to work on tablet-friendly features. Two code ...

Typing on an iPhone can be a pain, even with auto-correct -- sometimes especially with auto-correct, actually -- but there hasn't been a truly great speech-to-text app for the device yet. Well, get ready to give your fingers a rest. If the demo of Dragon's new iPhone dictation app that I just saw over at Gear Diary is any indication, practically perfect speech-to-text is now available on the ...

In this day and age, who has time for reading? You don't -- obviously. There's this site out there called PimpMyNews and it reads blogs aloud for you using text-to-speech software. You can even listen to the stories on an iPhone or iPod Touch through the site, and the service will even let you transfer stories onto your regular ol' iPod. Despite being perfect for those too busy (lazy?) to read ...

Any child of the 80's will recall Max Headroom, the stuttering talking head that made fun of movie stars and politicians, as a pop-culture hallmark of the decade. Of course, Max Headroom is an entirely forgettable character, so most children of the 90's and later just say "huh?" when you mention his name. But for all you Headroom fans, and for those of us who just like our computers to behave ...

My Talker 1.2 is easily the simplest type and talk application available for download. When you first get started you are presented with a large text box and a talk button. That's pretty much it. No formating tools, no option menus, nothing. The one thing you can do is select from three animated characters who will, in a very fun manner, speak what you type. The three choices are: a genie, a ...

As part of the app-a-day experiment, the Software Jedi has released a program called RSS Text to Speech. At first I though this program would be incredibly annoying, and in fact it very well can be, but there are certainly some use cases that make sense. The idea here is that you put in a few RSS feeds for things that you want to stay on top of. RSS Text to Speech then polls the feeds you've ...