Sunday, September 13, 2009

Speech-to-text the new touch for cell phones?

By msnbc.com (CLICK to read more)

"'DWD' — driving while distracted — by text messages, e-mails and phone calls is epidemic. And while no one has yet to come up with a technology that would automatically jolt a phone user from touching the device while behind the wheel, speech recognition software may play a role in reducing — but not solving — the problem.

'The trend on banning texting while driving can only help the cause for speech and voice application providers,' said William Ho, research director of wireless services at Current Analysis.

Some think that speech recognition could be the new touch for mobile devices, which have been dominated by touch-screen phones since Apple released its first iPhone more than two years ago."

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