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August 15, 2006
Windows Vista Speech Recognition Demo Gone Awry
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Dutch bank ABN Amro offers banking by voice recognition
A large Dutch bank has begun offering its customers access to their accounts with a telephone system that operates entirely by voice recognition.
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IBM talks up voice-based biometric user identification
IBM is developing software that could enable IT directors to deploy biometric user authenticated systems based on voice recognition technology.
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Wii Rumour: Headsets. Voice Recognition
According to a strengthening rumour gaining momentum right now, the Nintendo Wii will feature wireless headsets for communication as standard across all online play, with a voice-to-text conversion enabling users to censor the content to which they are subjected to by other users.
Stemming from a well-established board in the more right-wing areas of the online gaming world, a user who nailed the Wii-Mote speaker news months before the E3 announcement claims Nintendo will make the voice-to-text technology an absolute standard in all elements of Wii online, reflective of it's security-conscious stance towards gaming and communication over the Internet.
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell...Your Computer
After over 20 years in No Man's Land, it seems like speech recognition is finally finding its groove: telephone-based customer service.
It's certainly true that speech recognition has a devoted user base, especially among differently abled workers. The technology has long helped those who aren't able to see their computer screens well or at all, and so rely on speech recognition to read a Web site for them, or help input a word processing document. It has also proven useful for people with repetitive stress injuries and other people unable to use a keyboard and mouse.
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