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Re:Idea for killer mobile app? by schtog on Sunday September 21, 2008 @12:31PM (#310444)
Voice recognition would obv be very cool if it was instant and involed machine tralsnation so you could talk in english and on the other end it comes out in chinese(or whatever language you choose).

Also, some phones already have voice recognition, if minimal, right? You can say a name and the appropriate person is called.

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Re:Idea for killer mobile app? by trezor on Sunday September 21, 2008 @04:51PM (#310598)
That is (as far as I know) only voice-matching. It matches the name you said to whatever pre-recorded read in name you have assigned to a contact.

So it's not like it actually understands what you say, more that this input "pretty much" matches this pre-recorded file.

There's a long way to from there to full, usable voice-recognition.

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