All the stories tagged with: text to speech
Ford vehicles will now read your text messages out to you
10/18/2011, For those following the automobile news, particularly Ford, are probably aware of the car manufacturer’s voice-activated Sync technology. The good news is that one of the updates coming to Sync will be the ability to read out loud incoming text [...]
BMW ConnectedDrive reads aloud your social network updates
09/26/2011, Drinking (alcohol) and driving do not mix, and another element that does not jive with driving includes speaking on your phone or checking up on emails, text messages and social network updates. BMW intends to safeguard the driver and occupants [...]
Apple files patent for text-speech/speech-text features on the iPhone
05/13/2011, According to another Apple patent recently discovered, the Cupertino company seems to have filed for a system that can convert speech to text or text to speech for the iPhone. Uses for this system would allow conversations to go on [...]
Panopreter Plus helps the visually impaired to use computers
02/14/2011, If you’ve used Windows computers for awhile, I’m sure most of you (if not all of you) have heard of Microsoft Sam. The text to speech engine that shipped with Windows was atrociously bad at pronouncing words you could recognize, [...]
Google Acquires Phonetic Arts for Better Voice Input, Text-to-Speech
12/03/2010, It looks like things are beginning to heat up in the realm of natural user interfaces as Google just recently acquired Phonetic Arts to have more natural sounding synthesis of voice. Google has been pursuing voice as part of its [...]
Blio E-Book Launch Attracts Controversy
10/01/2010, The Blio e-book store was meant to launch to increase accessibility of digital books content to the blind, but since the launch, the store founded by Ray Kurzweil and the National Federation for the Blind has attracted controversy rather than [...]
Nuance Vocalizer text-to-speech technology to see action in Blio eReader Software
08/24/2010, Nuance’s Vocalizer text-to-speech technology will spring into action in tandem with the Blio eReader Software when it rolls out next month. As for Blio, it will be the first eReader to preserve the image-rich format of books and magazines, ranging [...]
