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Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with Nuance's Vlad Sejnoha (update: video embedded)
We'll be talking about the potential of voice recognition with Nuance, the company behind the popular Dragon NaturallySpeaking and features in hardware like Samsung's Smart TVs. The company's CTO Vlad Sejnoha will be joining us on the stage. January 9, 2013 7:30 PM EST Check out our full CES 2013 stage schedule here! Update: video embedded
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 voice recognition coming in August for $100, cares what you have to say
Sick of talking to yourself? Get ready to ride the wild voice recognition dragon. Nuance announced this morning that the 12th version of its Dragon NaturallySpeaking software will start shipping the week of August 13th. The upgrade to the fire-breathing dictation app brings 100 new features, including faster performance, a 20-percent improvement in accuracy, better adaptation to user preferences, more integration with Gmail and Hotmail and extended support for the Dragon Remote Mic app on Android. Interested parties can pre-order the latest release start today for $100. More info in the press release after the break.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 updates your Facebook, turns your iPhone into a wireless mic
All your sci-fi dreams of being able to talk to your gadgets and have the do your bidding are slowly becoming a reality. Nuance, the company behind Dragon NaturallySpeaking, has been at the forefront of the technology since 1997 and, with the release of 11.5, it has added a few neat tricks to its dictation-taking repertoire. On the desktop side, new widgets allow you to post updates to your Facebook and Twitter accounts simply by saying "post to" you social network of choice before spouting off your status update -- perfect for drunk tweeting when those beer goggles make it hard to hit the keys. Nuance also released the Dragon Remote Mic App for iOS, which turns your Apple device into a wireless mic that beams commands and dictated notes straight to your PC. We're pretty excited for all this voice control stuff -- so long as our computers don't start refusing our requests in a detached monotone. Check out the PR after the break.
