Speech recognition Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

ShoutOUT TXT brings voice recognition to SMS messaging

by Mel Martin (Dec 24th, 2009)

ShoutOUT TXT is a new app for the iPhone [iTunes link] that lets you dictate text messages to your iPhone and send them just as you would with regular SMS text messaging. You set up an account and text away, using your existing contact list, or entering any phone number that can be texted. After ...

Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone. Wow.

by Mel Martin (Dec 8th, 2009)

Put this into the 'I didn't think they could ever get this to work on an iPhone' category. I'm talking about Dragon Dictation [iTunes link] from Nuance, the developers of the very popular Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC. Nuance also provides the speech recognition engine for MacSpeech ...

Voice on the Go makes your cellphone safer in the car

by Mel Martin (Oct 30th, 2009)

Voice on the Go has been out for quite a long time, and I'm surprised we never reviewed it. Imagine getting your emails and texts read to you while you drive, and creating and sending emails and texts while never touching your cellphone. Recently a friend suggested I give it a try, so I did and ...

iSpeak: Voice dialing for iPhone 3G

by Steven Sande (Jul 9th, 2008)

Sunday night on the TUAW Talkcast, we were discussing how much fun this week was going to be from the iPhone software perspective. This announcement from Fonix Speech is exactly what we were talking about. Fonix iSpeak is a voice activation application for the iPhone 3G. There are a couple of ...