Is voice recognition in Apple's future?

satchmo

I haven't heard much on this front lately. Has everyone including Apple abandoned this technology?

The hype these days seem to be tablets (MS' upcoming tablet next month).



I've always believed that this would be a technology would pursue or explore, given their penchant for user interfaces.

Afterall, text input and finding a document would be much faster than using a stylus.

imud

Isn't there voice recognition software that comes with OS X?

rick1138

Yep its embedded in the system,and it works quite well,though limited.For a complete voice recognition system use IBM's ViaVoice.

producer

SJ mentioned at the last developer conference that they were looking for voice technology..not sure if he meant speach to text or text to speech..or both...atnt I believe as the best test to speech...you can go check it out on their site...

hobbes

[quote]Originally posted by Producer:

<strong>SJ mentioned at the last developer conference that they were looking for voice technology..not sure if he meant speach to text or text to speech..or both...atnt I believe as the best test to speech...you can go check it out on their site...</strong><hr></blockquote>



Jobs is looking for something like AT&T's Natural Voices.



<a href="http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/"; target="_blank">http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/</a>;



Pretty neat. Much better than Victoria. Or Pipe Organ.



We'll see this, or something like this, in 10.3 I bet.

ghost_user_name

This has nothing to do with future hardware.



Moving to General Discussion.



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frank777

What I want most is to be able to sit under a tree in a park wearing a microphone connected to an iPod and dictate articles.



Upon arriving at the office, I plug in the iPod, download the files, which are automatically converted to text and thrown nito AppleWorks.



Is that too much to ask? :cool:

defiant

yeah...



but it would be nice, yes.

k_munic

the world has the size and shape of... the U.S?

&lt;just kiddin´&gt;



i´m sorry to imply, but Apple sells Computers also to countries, where american english is NOT the native tongue...-



over here i'm still waiting for the german version of ibm via voice for MacOsX... they said it works terrific (in english), they said the 9.0 version (in german) was very good...- but you can´t use it in classic env.-



spoken word output is nice, but i think just for handicappped persons or for reading out long texts, like books etc.-



spoken INPUT would be a killer iApp for those of us, who like to write long copy without the ability of 10fingers blind...- believe or not: there are MANY people in the 21.cent. who didn't learn this skill.-



but, again: as a typical Apple iApp, Steve J. need it in English, Japanese, French, German, Spanish - just to mention the languages of the big Apple markets.-



i think, until 3rd party vendors don't jump on this train, we will never see it...-



a pitty.

rick1138

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That may be possible with the new version of ViaVoice-it definitely would be if you played the recorded dictations to it.

jpf

Intelligent Voice Recognition is the "Next killer Application".



Apple should be working and it appears they are, in a small degree. I tell you that I could use this everyday. It would change the way I wrote software that's for sure.



I have givin alot of thought about writing a piece of software to demonstrate its power. I don't have the experience in Voice Recognition, but to me its the next greatest thing in computers.

donald

All:



There are other Speech alternatives on the Mac. Check out <a href="http://www.macspeech.com"; target="_blank">http://www.macspeech.com</a>; for iListen.



Other languages such as German, French, Dutch you can get from <a href="http://www.macspeech.co.uk"; target="_blank">http://www.macspeech.co.uk</a>;

blackcat

We need Dragon back onboard. PowerSecretary was brilliant, but never got updated for 9.x. iListen had promise but they seem to have lost their way and ViaVoice, while good, has that odd Speak Pad thing which makes editing tricky.



Only Dragon do this stuff right.

rick1138

The ViaVoice for OSX doesn't require SpeakPad,text can be spoken directly into the app in question-the interface can be manipulated using voice.