Dictate for MAC's are due Friday..

 

 MacSpeech's Dictate — the new native Mac speech recognition application that is built on Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking, is slated to release February 15, 2008.
The demonstration video is rather impressive…

 But it sure doesn't look like it will stand up yet, to the amazing Vista recognizer..

 

1 Hospital - 100% Speech Recognition

 

 The Hague’s Bronovo hospital in The Netherlands has converted to 100% speech recognition for all departments - it has improved service quality, and profits.

 Says Dr. Pieter Lambregts, who oversaw the speech recognition for the Neurology group in the hospital.."The overall efficiency gain and time saving allowed us to increase our department’s activities by 20% without having to hire additional secretaries.”

 Speech recognition is widely used in the Health Care industries in the Netherlands; SpeechMagic from Philips is the platform for over 80% of the speech recognition systems.

 Wilfred Reinhard, Bronovo’s IT Manager noted “We wanted to realize the country’s first all-speech recognition hospital because we knew how critical the availability of clinical information is for the delivery of care.”.

The entire case study from G2 Speech is available here.

 

Goog411 speech recognition to GE phones

 

 The GE Premiere DECT 6.0 28821FJ3 has a cool new "GOOG-411" button centered on the handset, that get's instant free business information calls!

 The button auto-dials Google’s free, voice-activated, speech recognition-driven business directory assistance service and becomes a feature on more than a dozen GE phones to be available in April 2008.

 Connections are done for free, leaving your dial tone provider out of luck ;-) when it comes to directory assistance call revenues.

 (This deal benefits Google in one particularly semi-interesting area, as it provides a "no brainer" option for even more users to give Google more phoneme samples it might not otherwise have gleaned, of independent spoken audio samples in it's quest for advanced speaker-independent speech recognition, as well)

 

Dynamic advertising via speech recognition in videos

 

 Cheap shots are often fired at Microsoft for being a little behind the "cutting edge" curve.

 Not so, as we well know; And the world's leader in speech recognition technology has ventured into a huge leap forward yet again.. Dynamically served contextual advertising, via automated speech recognition, on the spoken audio in videos, from Microsoft's adCenter Labs' technology.

 This technology enables ads to be rendered based on the contextual spoken audio in a video. For example, if the topic of the video was gardening, ads related to gardening or lawn improvement could be served in an adjacent text-based ad as the video played. For advertisers, this provides new & unique access to consumers.

 The YouTube video below makes a "video worth a thousand words.."

  ..Wow....What else could we say?

 

Out Loud for Outlook - Source Code now available..

 

 "Out Loud for Outlook", developed by Nathan Carlson for Outlook 2007 using Visual Studio 2008 Tools for Microsoft Office, allows you to create a new Outlook rule that reads your designated email out loud when it triggers. You can also use speech recognition command & control, to open and navigate through your emails.

 On the Code Gallery website, the source code is available as of February 1, 2008. Nathan's sample demonstrates:

• Basics of developing an Outlook 2007 Add-in.


• Consuming Outlook events.


• Accessing e-mails.


• Creating a Custom Action for Outlook rules.


• Using Speech Synthesis.


• Using Speech Recognition.

  * If you are seeking full-fledged speech recognition integration with Outlook, we highly recommend Adondo's PAL.