Apple is apparently adding support for speech-to-text input to iOS 5. While speech recognition wasn’t one of the features Apple mentioned when introducing the next-generation mobile operating system, the folks at 9 to 5 Mac found a special keyboard hidden away in the latest iOS 5 beta with a microphone next to the space bar. When you tap the microphone icon, a new screen opens… Read more »

Google has added a new “Personalized recognition” option to its Voice Search app for Android. in a nutshell, that means that the more often you talk to your phone, the better it will get at recognizing your voice requests. While Voice Search and speech recognition have been available for Android for a while, so far Google has taken a rather broad approach, designing the service… Read more »

There are boatloads of twitter apps for Android which let you see updates from your contacts and tap out updates using your phone’s keyboard. Twitoc isn’t one of them. Instead it’s a simple widget-based app that you can place on your home screen. Tap it once and Twitoc will use Google voice recognition to let you update your Twitter status using your voice. Just pick… Read more »

Google Android has built-in speech recognition, which means you can translate speech to text in many apps. But Edwin is one of the few that will talk back. For instance, you can ask Edwin the time, and it will tell you. Ask it for tomorrow’s forecast and a computerized voice will read it to you. You can even ask it to translate words or sentences… Read more »

Dragon Dictation is a free speech recognition app for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. All you have to do is tap the screen to start a recording and when you’re done talking Dragon will automatically convert your words to text. I found the app was pretty accurate when I tested it with an iPod touch and a headset, but it did make a few… Read more »