speech recognition features Archives

A fresh look at voice recognition capabilities

10/19/201110/19/2011 Julie Campbell

Speech recognition has been challenging scientists for decades, but has continued to keep them motivated as its potential is enormous for both use and earnings. Though speech recognition had fallen off the map in terms of popular discussion, is has been hauled back into the spotlight once more along with the release of the latest Apple product, the iPhone 4S, which includes speech recognition among its features. It has left many people wondering whether this feature will remain a fun little gimmick, or whether it will become an essential way…

Zoosh unveils option instead of NFC and Google Wallet

07/03/201107/06/2011 L. Green

Zoosh, a state of the art development produced by a Silicon Valley startup company called Naratte, has turned the heads of a number of developers of mobile payment technologies, as it has come up with a way to replicate the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) chips through the use of a simple microphone and speaker already found in the majority of mobile devices. The Zoosh technology involves the use of sound frequencies that are inaudible to humans, but that are commonly used in the natural world by animals such…