Tuesday, January 08, 2008

We are there in voice recognition!

I always used to wonder what is it that is preventing people from giving end-user level services in voice recognition. Technology is certainly mature, a number of enterprise level softwares have been available for long. For long, we have had small voice recognition softwares on our desktops, that can interpret your voice and generate text... but then what! I mean, nobody was really "cashing" this.
And, look, while I wasn't looking, a few very interesting services/startups have cropped up:
SimulScribe
Read your voicemail! You can receive your voicemails as SMSes on your mobile etc.
SpinVox
Provides all sorts of services around voice-recognition. You can store your voice mail/talk to your blog, and a lot more...

Needless to say, all these services is for english (It would be a pleasent surprise if they can detect successfully interpret Indian accent :) ), and available in US/Canada/Europe mostly.

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