This week everyone's at the Web 2.0 Expo at New York City's Javits Center. Abby reported on a technology that makes your computer talk to you; I met a couple of brothers who were at the show to promote their invention, wherein you talk to your computer.
I have been using this little gem for about a year now. It is really a unique product, a VERY light version of speech recognition - oriented towards web browsing. I like that it is small, well thought out, and best of all FREE. The voice recognition seems be quite robust - which itself is no small feat for such a small program. It fills an interesting niche - the idea of linking web browsing with voice recognition. Other products obviously can do this, but it seem that browsing was an afterthought with stuff like Dragon, ViaVoice etc. This product looks like it was designed from the bottom up just for web browsing. In addition, the are a whole host of clever things built in that I would not have thought of, but are quite useful for browsing. In summary, if you want to dictate a 100 page legal document, then this is not the product for you. But if you want to see the future of web browsing (think "...Where Star Trek meets the Internet...") then you should download a copy and play with it. Once you get the recognition engine trained and get used to using it (for me it took a few days to really get used to it), its really addictive and hard to live without.
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