It’s time for the iPhone to get more intelligent, to be able to interpret some words spoken out of the mouths of humans. AT&T is making the speech recognition capability to come to iPhone soon, which they’re now working on a speech-recognition web service.
AT&T is working out the new web service called Speech Mashups. The service will send users’ speech to a remote server, which can then interpret what the user has said and translate the speech into commands for operating the iPhone. The service is made available for all AT&T handsets that come equipped with a browser, which iPhone is one of them.
The downside would be this service will need pretty fast Internet connection as it always needs to communicate with the server remotely for sending the voice commands for interpretation. If you’re on an EDGE network, then it definitely slows down the speech recognition process.
Do expect you’d have to shout for a couple of times, and only a few of your words get recognized by the system. I guess the speech recognition app will need a huge database at the backend to support a huge patterns of voices to achieve better precision. Which could be the reason, why this speech recognition app is designed as a web app instead of native app. It shall work pretty comfortably if you’re on a high-speed HSDPA network.
via [uberphones]
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