Apple never specified what the "S" stands for in iPhone 4S, and it may as well stand for Siri.
Apple is expected to unveil its much anticipated new version of the iPhone on Tuesday.
According to CNET an Apple employee left a prototype of the new iPhone 5 at a bar in San Francisco.
CNN's Nic Robertson discusses Yemen's future during an exclusive interview with acting president Abdu Rabu Mansoor Hadi.
The Yemeni government has lost control over five provinces, and security in the country is deteriorating, the nation's acting president told CNN in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
Microsoft has pumped out voice recognition software for years, but the company has a curious aversion to publicizing the fact. With Windows 7, Microsoft's speech recognition has become a decent productivity tool and one that the company should be proud to proclaim as an OS feature. For the casual speech recognition user, nothing beats free -- especially when one considers the $100+ price points for third-party software.
On a recent episode of the TV show "Modern Family," a character named Mitchell gets in his car and does something that's frustratingly familiar for early adopters of technology:
Many business owners regularly talk to inanimate objects. Don't believe me? I'm guessing that in the last week alone you've begged your PC not to lose valuable data or implored your notebook to recover lost documents. While we all have one-sided conversations with our tech toys, we generally don't expect them to answer, much less complete tasks simply because we say so. But today's voice-activated software promises to do just that, claiming faster speeds and an impressive 99% accuracy level.
At age 20, Mark Loeffler was a former high school jock who worked as an hourly laborer at a tropical plant farm in Hawaii. Then one afternoon, vacationing with his parents at a lake in Michigan, Loeffler dove off the end of a dock and snapped his neck.
BlueAnt Wireless launched the first headset that recognizes spoken English commands, and responds, also in English
Garmin's latest GPS device, the nuvi 880, says a lot about the state of the market for portable navigation devices. The gadget has it all: directions, MP3 player for listening to songs and books, a photo viewer - even an alarm clock.
Back in 1950, blue-collar industrial and agricultural jobs were prevalent, with a smattering of secretarial work thrown in for the few women who could work outside of the home.
You don't always need a fancy cell phone or pricey add-ons to take advantage of today's most useful wireless technology.
In South Korea, telematics is big business. If it sounds like a buzzword to advertise the latest purveyor of high-tech must-have gadgets, its etymology is no less firmly rooted: "tele" means remote; "matics" means information. Cruising right alongside wireless broadband and DMB (Digital Media Broadcast) cell phones, telematics refers more specifically to automobiles receiving remote information from commercial service providers. These services could include Global Positioning System (GPS), on-demand entertainment, Internet and Web access, or weather and traffic conditions.
Can the world's leading search engine be beaten by a voice-based alternative? Scott Jones thinks it can - and he knows a thing or two about voice and search.
Business 2.0: Now You're Talkingupdated: Thu Mar 15 2007 12:17:00
As man-vs.-machine classics go, it had the crucial elements: The brash young champion. The new-and-improved computing powerhouse. That the champ was 17-year-old Ben Cook, anointed by the Guinness B...
Apple Computer Inc. won a patent for a speech-recognition technology earlier this week, fueling speculation that the iPod-maker is laying the groundwork for a future "iPhone."
Fortune: in boxupdated: Mon May 16 2005 00:01:00
I was talking to a Samsung SGH-P207 VGA camera phone the other day--yes, talking to it, not through it--and in response it wrote me a note that changed the way I think about mobile phones and other...
Having a bad day? Your car could help put you in a better mood.
Telephone conversations are difficult if you are hearing-impaired, but a group of scientists has created technology that makes things easier.
Almost lost amid all the hoopla over the European Union's ruling against Microsoft was some interesting news: On March 24, Redmond unveiled its Speech Server product line, which it expects to begin shipping in the next few weeks.
Your assistant is a lovely person. He's organized and eager to please. Call him from the road at 2 A.M., of course, and he's slightly less helpful. In a pinch there's Pronto (www.askpronto.com), yo...
Some writers would have loved PC-based voice recognition. Marcel Proust, who in later years had to make an effort just to sit up in bed and write, would have loved resting his head on his pillow, s...
No one told Mike McCue that the bloom was off Internet startups, especially the sort that act as if they can change the world. Nor does he seem to have gotten the message that it's time to batten d...
The Internet has taken off like a rocket because it's a great platform for innovation. As long as you conform to the basic rules of the Net's digital language, you can enhance it with all sorts of ...
Are you tired of those automated phone systems that force you to dial your way through a long, slow series of irrelevant options in the hope that you'll stumble across a recorded answer to your que...
Sometimes I even bug myself. Electronically. Like Nixon but with fewer expletives. Or like Tripp but with less incriminating sex. Fortunately for me, my self-surveillance is legal, on the up-and-up...
Biometric devices, designed to keep your PC and its sensitive data secure from prying eyes, are popping up on more and more desktops. These systems--once the stuff of science-fiction movies--replac...
Driving a new Pentium III computer is like slipping behind the wheel of a souped-up Porsche. It's great to see the world whiz by, but it's questionable whether you need all this horsepower just to ...
We all have secrets, and we keep many of them on the hard disks of our computers. Business plans. Employee evaluations. Income tax returns. Stock portfolios. Love letters. Photos from alt.sex.eroti...
Let's start with a quick quiz: When is your mother's birthday? How about Thomas Jefferson's? When was Mickey Mouse born? When was the right triangle born?
Without computers, my dad once engineered a billion-dollar loan to Italy. Without E-mail, he maintained decades-long relationships with bankers, government ministers, and an entire who's who of bus...
Why does Scotch tape stick? I confess, I don't know. It's one of many simple wonders of everyday life that I rarely think about and couldn't explain. How you are able to read this column is another...
"Well, Dad, it looks like you've got your own little amanuensis." I looked up from my PC, where a half-dozen paragraphs that I'd dictated into the tiny Dragon Systems' NaturallySpeaking Mobile pock...
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Hey! Guess what those wild and crazy Microsoft geeks in Redmond,Wash., are working on now? Statistical physics! Pretty cool, huh?
There's an odd thing happening with technology companies today--the strong are getting stronger. As we surveyed the trends investors should watch, we were surprised by the faith industry experts ha...
When my son Ike was 4 years old, I traded a spare disk drive for a gadget that was supposed to let you talk to a computer. I thought he'd get a kick out of it.
YOU ARRIVE at the hotel, pop your smart card in a doorway slot to introduce yourself, then go straight to your room, assigned earlier by computer. To enter, say your name, and the door magically op...
WHEN Jean Kovacs comes into the office each day, she dons a little headset and greets her computer with a brisk ''Good morning!'' In response, her Sun workstation lights up its screen. ''Start mail...
''WHAT DO most people know about speech recognition?'' asks Janet Baker. ''Well, they saw HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey.'' Baker, 38, and her husband, James, 40, own Dragon Systems Inc., a tiny Newt...
ON A CLOUDY November afternoon, a visitor sat before a blank computer screen in an IBM laboratory preparing to dictate a message that the computer would try to transcribe. The IBM scientists demons...
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