Registered: Oct 2000
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speech recognition via microphone?

I am a proud new owner of a Visor Prism and can't help but think that a killer app would be using the Visor's built in microphone to facilitate voice recognition for text entry. Would this not be awesome? Fire up a simple app, tap a big button and start speaking near the microphone. Text pours into a field which you can then copy and paste into any other app. Something like that, anyway.

Anyone know if Handspring has plans to use the microphone for anything other than the Visor Phone springboard? Is there a speech recognition/text conversion API?

Thanks,
-jdawg

Registered: Jun 2000
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Doubtful.
We are talking serious power requirements.
I always recommend the Olympus DS-150, which uses the IBM ViaVoice recog. engine. to convert speech-to-text after you download the sound file to your PC.
I think the bare minimum req. on the PC side is a 166Mhz chip. (That's why when word went around that PktPC was going to have this feature, I almost believed them.)

Registered: Dec 2000
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IBM Viavoice

http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speec...prise/ms_1.html

IBM has had voice recognition running on a palm. To use the microphone, you would have to build some hardware because it is just wired to two pins in the springboard slot. it couldn't do dictation, but I'm sure you could do some commands. There are chips with very basic voice recognition on them.
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.s...tion6/Q6.5.html
you could also just make your own little module that does it on board.

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