Voice related applications have been pretty bad in terms of their utility. In late 2009, a slew of products are slowly changing the landscape and are finally meeting user expectations.
This is a list of some generic speech recognizers accessible from cell phones. We do not discuss domain specific (health care or automotive or defense) applications.
Microsoft Tellme[]
[1] offers cloud hosted telephony services. [2] also describes generic transcription of speech for Windows Mobile phones.
VoiceOnTheGo[]
[1] provides email access to most commercial free internet services. You can also post Facebook updates by speaking it on your phone.
Dial2Do[]
Dictate reminders orally and get reminders on your phone. Also enables email access to popular free web mail.
Nuance Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search[]
Nuance introduced iPhone apps mirroring their popular Dragon desktop products. You can dictate generic search queries and post them to twitter, google, facebook or text/email them. [2] has details.
Google Voice Search for iPhone and Android[]
Google provides voice enabled search products and voice enabled Google Map additions [3]
Google 411[]
1-800-GOOG-411 is a free directory assistance program. [4] has a good description of its internals.
vLingo[]
[3] has a product powering voice queries.
Infinear.com Yahoo Mail Reader[]
[4] allows users to register their email and web sites or blog preferences. These will be read out on demand handsfree using voice commands.
Ribbit[]
[5] allows users to interact with Oracle CRM applications and salesforce.com products using voice commands.
Loquendo[]
[5] offers voice driven dialers and transcribers for the iPhone.
See also[]
Speech Recognition
References[]
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