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 »

Microsoft has unveiled new details about the next big update for Windows Phone 7. When Windows Phone 7.5 (code-named Mango) is released later this year, it will include new Live Tiles features, better multitasking and an improved web browsing experience. But we already knew that. Now thanks to a podcast interview with Microsoft’s Brandon Watson, we also know that Windows Phone 7.5 will bring: Turn… Read more »

Ever wish you could hit the snooze button on an alarm without putting on your glasses, looking for your clock or phone and pressing a button? WakeVoice is a new Android app that makes it almost too easy to hit stop or snooze, since you’ll be able to stop your alarm by talking to it. The app uses speech to text and text to speech…. 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 »