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Bing -- free app from Microsoft lets you search via speech recognition

I've been looking at the wide range of speech recognition apps for an article I'm working on for the magazine. Bing (free) is one that I haven't yet mentioned. As you likely know, Bing is Microsoft's powerful search engine. Microsoft calls it a “decision engine” that you can use to find information, restaurants and other businesses, images, show times, travel deals, flight information, weather forecasts, and walking or driving directions. Other features include using your device's camera to scan product codes and to input text by pointing it at text strings that you want to search on.

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Jim Karpen holds a Ph.D. in literature and writing, and has a love of gizmos. His doctoral dissertation focused on the revolutionary consequences of digital technologies and anticipated some of the developments taking place in the industry today. Jim has been writing about the Internet and technology since 1994 and has been using Apple's visionary products for decades.

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Voice apps

Cool!  Hey Jim, I'm gonna post a blog article shortly re VoiceDJ... saw it at CES.  Stay tuned.

Thanks. I look forward to it.

Thanks. I look forward to it. I'll be sure to include it in my article.

Jim

Speech recognition

There is a new sheriff in town. Check out www.redshiftcompany.com
They are coming out with Voice enabled web pages. There technology is not based on current technology but on a whole new technology. Imagine surfing an entire companies web site by just talking a question.