FREE STUFF

A Twitter parody site and a free speech-to-text app for the iPhone.

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VOICE RECOGNITION IMPROVES, SORT OF

1If you’ve ever called for airline reservations, you’ve dealt with voice recognition software. A robotic voiceasks you if you want “reservations” or “flight status.” If you say “Cheeseburger,” the robot says, “Sorry, I didn’t get that.”

You can have this kind of fun on a regular basis, with your own voice recognition software.

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TALKING TO YOUR COMPUTER

Computers that understand human speech are a staple of science fiction movies and TV shows, but in the real world they can’t understand a word you say.

Dragon Naturally Speaking (www.nuance.com) has been burning a path through this fog for many years now, and each version gets a little better. The latest one is version 9.

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