Speech Recognition

[aussie]

Hi guys, just wondering whether anyone has heard of, or has a program (installable on a Symbian phone), which supports input of text through speech recognition. aka, instead of typing out a SMS or MMS or Email, you could just talk and the phone would automatically start putting the text in for you..i realise it won't be perfect, but anything's a start! I know it sounds a bit far fetched, but it's probably one of the major deciding factors i'd consider before getting a SX1..
Cheers.

[nk_au]

Hey Aussie!

I hope there is such an app, but at the moment - I think it doesn't exist. But keep your hopes up!

Btw, what phone are you getting? a SX1? Can the SX1 use speech recognition to write SMS?

And btw2, wouldn't you save more characters if you write "ur" instead of "your" ... which the program might do.

Just thoughts and opinions. Let the facts roll in :-)

[gophermaster]

Yeah, this would be a pretty cool application. Unfortunately I haven't heard of any...

[momagic]

would be wicked, a bit like smsrapper but the oppisatie way round! :roll:?

[fnvillafuerte]

Actually, speech recognition apps already exist in all Nokia's symbian60 phones... just look at Voice Tag and Voice Command features of your Symbian phone, they are speech recognition applications, aren't they? :)

[ki-adi-mundi]

Voice Tag and Voice Command are not speech recognition. They use simple sample matching. Basically it digitizes or samples your voice, this gets stored on the phone, next time when you say it, pattern matching routines are used to determine if a match was heard.

Real speech recognition requires large amounts of processing power and memory. Somehow I don't think our 100Mhz odd ARM's processors have enough horsepower.

But you never know. ;)

[Iceman5]

Real speech recognition requires large amounts of processing power and memory. Somehow I don't think our 100Mhz odd ARM's processors have enough horsepower.

But you never know. ;)
I was thinking just the same thing... 100mhz isnt much

[fnvillafuerte]

Voice Tag and Voice Command are not speech recognition. They use simple sample matching. Basically it digitizes or samples your voice, this gets stored on the phone, next time when you say it, pattern matching routines are used to determine if a match was.... ;)

Exactly. When there is a match, the voice will be "recognized", hence the term "voice recognition". So, dont say that "Voice Tag and Voice Command" are not speech recognition!

[aussie]

Had a look at the Siemens SX1, (i work in a telstra shop), and it's really pittyful. it was a huge disappointment for me. The picture and video quality is jst crap. I mean the pic is ok at normal viewing, but i zoomed in once and the picture was so choppy etc. Even my old old old 7650 has better quality. And the basic look and feel of the Symbian interface in it is kinda greyish and dull. I guess you could change it by using Slauncher, (no themes coz it's symbian 6.0), but still, SX1 is a no no for me!
Oh well, guess i can wait for the SendoX....
Cheers

[ki-adi-mundi]

@fnvillafuerte.. I guess it depends on your terminology. Looking at Google [1] I can see that the term does cover what you mentioned. However in the context of aussie's original question concerning the recognition of speech, and then conversion to text for SMS. This implies that the progam would need to actually recognise the phonetics [2] of speech rather than match it too a pre-digitised sample. This is what I understand as speech Recognition, but I guess we are just splitting hairs. :rolleyes:

This one sums it up for me
http://uitonline.com/Training/TelephonyDemo/leftframe/glossary.htm
A speaker independent system that provides the ability of a machine to understand human speech, yours and everyone else’s. Speech recognition does not need training.

[1] http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=define%3A+speech+recognition
[2] http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=define%3A+phonetics