August 13th, 2009 by Emerging Technologies
If you are searching for the right accessories to compliment you voice recognition software, be aware that not all computer microphones are created equal. Although it may cost a little more, the right kind of mike can determine whether the program works as intended.
What to Look For
When you start shopping around for the best in computer microphones, you may have to pay a little more for what you need, but it will be worth it. For example, a good microphone will help filter out the background noise, while you are trying to dictate with voice recognition software.
If you settle for the cheaper computer microphones, you may have trouble with it typing a deep breath into the document as some sort of word. If someone walks into the room and starts talking, it will not differentiate between your voice and theirs.
If you can afford to spend a little extra, you may want to get an array microphone that will allow you to move about the room during dictation. It works great if you are dictating a document while holding a meeting. If you work at home, the right kind of computer microphones can allow you to move about doing chores, while you work at the same time.
Do not Settle
If you want to make the most of your voice recognition software, do not settle for the cheaper computer microphones. From personal experience, you will end up frustrated, correcting needless mistakes from background noises, and repeating dictation, if the computer microphone does not pick it up correctly. Remember, not all computer microphones are created equal.
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May 17th, 2009 by Emerging Technologies
Are you ready for voice recognition software and head-mounted computers? If so you will be thrilled to learn about all the great things Motorola has in store for us! Get ready to get in line like everyone else who is interested in enjoying him or herself.
Kopin has shown off a Motorola-branded computer built into a Bluetooth headset that provides a virtual 15-inch display by means of a swing-down eyepiece. According to the company, The “Golden-i” incorporates speech recognition and weighs three ounces. You can run it on Linux or Windows CE for more than ei
ght hours per charge.
BlueRadios announced last week that the WiPC portable media player (right) is similar to the Golden-i incorporates Kopin’s CyberDisplay, a “third-generation” micro-display. It provides 800 x 600 - pixel resolution and measures in at 0.6 inches diagonally. It claims to appear much like a15-inch monitor while being positioned near the eye. However, the WiPC features the design of content snacking since you must manually hold it up to the eye. The Golden-i is incorporated into a Bluetooth headset.
The Golden-i uses its Bluetooth 2.0 radio to make a wide area connection through a cellular phone or other host device with a design that provides the user with remote access to their online office desktop computer, according to Kopin. Kopin also claims the headset that runs Windows CE 6.0 R2, offers “full hands-free access to all PC applications, data files, and services,” by the use of Nuance VoCon 3200 speech recognition software. Users can zoom in and out on their remote desktops by operating a cursor with “nearly pixel-for-pixel accuracy” thanks to an integral, six-axis position tracker from Hillcrest Labs. That is pretty impressive!
Kopin, released renderings of the Golden-i that carry Motorola branding. It also provides documentation to the press suggesting that Motorola may bring this device into market. Despite the financial losses of the parent company and the falling market share of the Motorola handset division, Moto’s Enterprise Mobile Solutions group continues to be successful in generating profits.
Kopin does not say if any type of software comes with the Golden-i other than to emphasize a possibility of accessing enterprise computers by means of Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol or RDP. However, according to the company, the headset offers “hands-free spontaneous access to all digital information, broadcast programming and Internet services.” It is compatible with 480p (720 x 480 pixel) video at up to 30 frames per second. Apparently, WiFi is not included in the initial prototypes. However, the company does say that it will later be added for autonomous web browsing.
According to Kopin, the Golden-i’s speech recognition offers “over 90 percent proficiency straight out of the box.” It does not require push to talk buttons and it is always on standby to react to user requests. Additionally, the device can incorporate text-to-speech capabilities, which enables it to read back text documents such as webpages and e-mails as well as other types of displayable screen text.
As mentioned earlier, the Golden-i like the WiPC uses a Cortex-A8-based Texas Instruments OMAP3530 system-on-chip (SoC) clocked at 600MHz. There is no mention as to the amount of memory included on the device. However, the headset includes both a microSD expansion slot and a mini-USB port, according to Kopin. The headset operates for more than 8 hours using a single 1200 mAh battery, according to the company.
WiPC features and specifications include:
- TI OMAP3530 clocked at 600MHz Processor
- Kopin SVGA (800 x 600) liquid crystal micro display LCD Display
- Other I/O –1 x USB
- User Interface that incorporates motion sensing and speech recognition
- microSD slot Expansion
- A Power source of 1200 mAh battery provides more than eight hours of operation.
- Networking: with Bluetooth 2.0 and soon WiFi will be offered
It is compatible with Windows CE and Linux operating systems and weights in at 85 grams or 3 ounces.
More than 30 million micro displays such as those commonly useful devices as camcorders, digital cameras, thermal weapon sights and night vision systems as well as personal video eyewear, has already been shipped according to Kopin. More than 200 global patents and patents pending protect the company’s proprietary displays and heterojunction bipolar transistors or HBTs.
Availability
Golden-i prototypes will soon be placed with “several industrial organizations” for several months of field-testing and evaluation says Kopin. The company also adds that, mass production is expected to begin in 2010.
In conclusion, it sounds as though we are swiftly moving into the next century and will be able to enjoy all the wonders of today’s technology tomorrow!
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May 13th, 2009 by Emerging Technologies
Voice recognition software provides programming to electronics that enables them to respond to voice commands. Voice recognition features controlling numerous types of electronic devices virtually hands-free. Voice recognition software allows you to dictate text into your computer rather than actually typing the text out, letter for letter. Today it is possible to execute commands by speaking a few short phrases into a microphone to accomplish your tasks.
Whether you have a large corporation, a small business, you are a business professional, a college student, a freelance writer, write legal or medical transcriptions or anyone else. You can increase your productivity, while maintaining your quality and accuracy, as you accomplish all your text documentations.
Software Advances Everyday
One of the best things about the revolution of technology is that every new edition of voice recognition software is much better to work with than those that came before. When you make use of this type of programming and software, you can accurately input any voice to text. This works exceptionally well for those who have extended working sessions.
Being able to voice to text can be very convenient for any type of business or professional, since it allows you the freedom to multitask, whether you are at home, in the office, traveling or while on foot to another destination. You can do many other things while using this type of technology to further your working experience. Consider how much easier your life will be when you can do what you need to do with the benefit of being completely hands-free, while simply using the commands of your voice.
Voice to text using voice recognition software today has the design of recognizing various types of accents, voice volume, voice pitch and inflections as well as various dialects, which means that anyone will benefit from its use.
Two Different Types of Speech Programming
Discrete speech programming requires that you pause between each spoken word, while continuous speech programming allows you to dictate the text in a more natural manner.
Whether you are in need of discrete speech programming or continuous speech programming, applying voice to text is easy to use and makes a viable alternative to the traditional mouse-keyboard combination of entering text.
Voice Recognition Software Increasing in Functionality and Effectiveness
Technology is always expanding; voice recognition software is now being embedded in various other types of electronic communication devices such as desktop and laptop computers, cell phones, Bluetooth headsets, MP3 players, online blogs, personal data assistants or PDAs, handheld PCs and many others.
Training with Voice to Text
It does take a little time and training to become experienced with this type of software. One of the most impressive situations is that while you are learning the program the program is learning you. Take your time during the training sessions in order for your new software to become accustom to recognizing your voice as well as becoming more familiar with the manner in which you speak. Remember, it may get a little frustrating at the beginning; however, with time and practice you will be able to use your voice recognition software in any capacity you require to accomplish a task.
With the increased popularity of voice recognition software, in development daily there is no telling just where user voice control and voice to text programming will take us into the future.
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April 7th, 2009 by Emerging Technologies
In business, it is always necessary to try to stay ahead, use new technology and be innovative. Looking for ways to improve service and provide a better experience for your customers comes down to improvements in customer service and more efficiency in operations. You have the ability to make use of new speech to text and voice recognition technology to help you provide top notch service to your clients.
Using Technology
Every industry can benefit from improvements in customer service. New developments in speech to text and voice recognition technology has allowed for businesses to improve their customer service drastically.
Everyone from writers to medical services to call centers can use voice recognition software to provide service that is more fluent. Voice recognition software can also help to reduce costs, increase productivity and reduce stress for both customers and employees.
Benefits to Expect
Voice recognition software allows a business to put employees to better use. Software can handle answering incoming calls and routing calls. It can enable a company to reduce staff and cut training costs. Many tedious job duties related to phone operations can be streamlined and simplified.
Instead of having an employee who answers and routes phone calls, the software can handle the task. This allows that employee to be put to better use elsewhere or the position to be eliminated all together.
For call centers, voice recognition software can free up agents to handle calls that are more complex. Simple calls can be handled through the system where customers can guide themselves to the answers they need.
Speech to text software is perfect for anyone who wants to multitask. It makes it simple to dictate notes or documents verbally to the program that then turns those spoken words into written text. This is perfect for administrators, writers and ideal for those who spend much of the day moving around without time to spend in front of a computer. There are some programs that can be used via a mobile phone, which sends the information back to the computer.
Advances to Appreciate
The advances in voice recognition and text to speech technology have been great. If you have ever used an automated phone system then you can probably agree that these programs are advancing.
In the beginning, voice recognition and text to speech technology had many draw backs. The different accents and ways of saying words could confuse the system. This would lead to frustration on the part of the person using the system. Today’s systems, though, are much more advanced. They are better made to recognize hard to understand accents and alterations in the way people speech. This has reduced frustrations with voice recognition programs and allows them to be more readily used by businesses.
There is no need to be concerned about implementing a voice recognition program in your company. Thee are a range of options and different programs that allow you to find the system that will best suit your needs and allow you to best serve your customers and employees.
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December 30th, 2008 by Emerging Technologies
Search engines are always hungry for high quality and unique content on the web. Having original, relevant and optimized content is crucial to attract quality traffic to your blog. It is also your best chance to convert traffic into paying customers and generate inbound links from authority websites.
However, the process of regularly writing and posting new content to your blog can be somewhat cumbersome. You may not have the time, energy or ideas to create good content that people want to read and more importantly share.
Why not try to simply speak out your blog using voice recognition?
You may find that ideas flow alot quicker when you’re speaking your content instead of writing it. Afterall, speaking is usually spontaneous and that’s what you need to quickly come up with original content. If you think too much or too long about it, you’ll get stuck. You can always go back to correct it, so don’t worry.
Simply speak out your thoughts and let the voice recognition software (your virtual secretary) write it down for you. How about that!
All you need is a good microphone headset (very important) and a voice recognition software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking from Nuance. Of course, you need to familiarise yourself with the software by learning the main commands. You will also need to run the wizard to teach the software your talking style. It will then automatically adjust to your speech patterns. The more you use it the more accurate it gets.
Now, just sit back, relax and start dictating and posting to your blog. It’s that simple!
Click to watch a voice recognition demo.
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