Q: I’m terrible at typing. It’s slow and painful. But I can talk up a storm. Is there any way I can talk or dictate content to my computer rather than struggle with the keyboard? A: Yes! There are ...

After six tries, Dragon NaturallySpeaking may have finally gotten it right. PC speech recognition has been around for awhile. And successive editions were increasingly accurate, but the program always ...

Have you talked to your computer lately? (Shouting curses at a system crash doesn’t count.) Chances are, you haven’t — though spoken commands and dictation are options for both Microsoft Windows XP ...

Beginning in February, Microsoft plans to offer a new feature for young students: Immersive Reader dictation, a new feature within Office 365 apps for Windows and the Mac. As a parent of two ...

Voice AI company Wispr’s dictation app, Wispr Flow, is seeing great traction. The startup said that, after three months of ...

Microsoft offered a dictation add-on for Word, Outlook and PowerPoint a year ago as one of their Garage projects. Now Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and OneNote have a dictation upgrade called Office ...

The Siri effect is spreading. Starting this fall, Nuance, a company that makes advanced speech recognition and transcription software, will bundle its Dragon Assistant, a Siri-like, vocal sidekick, ...

O ne of the most effective use cases to have emerged from modern AI models is their ability to understand the human voice ...

Recognition screensaver on a PC, in which the character responds to questions, e.g. "Where are you?" or statements, e.g. "Hello. "]] In computer science, speech recognition (SR) is the translation of ...

Frederick Jelinek, 77, a brilliant and determined engineer who overcame the challenges of a boyhood in Nazi-occupied Europe to come to the United States and teach computers how to recognize the sounds ...