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"Ipadio technology links up the telephone networks with the internet, enabling the live broadcast of audio directly to the internet… all from a standard phone. There's never been an easier way to record oral assessments, create revision podcasts, or even collect homework. The process involves a simple registration of your phone and the selection of a password. You are then given a toll free number to call, enter the password, and start recording. Your recording is instantly available as a phlog (phone blog) on your own channel at Ipadio. Don't have the cell phone you registered with Ipadio. There is an easy solution, just use any phone and complete the additional step of entering your registered phone number. After the recording you can visit your own channel and listen to the phlog, email it, embed it in a web page, or even download it as an mp3 to be used in your own multimedia application. You even have the opportunity to edit your phlog and make it public. Ipadio even converts the spoken words to text! Imagine the educational uses of that features. There is even an iPhone and Android app."

""Julius" is a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder software for speech-related researchers and developers. Based on word N-gram and context-dependent HMM, it can perform almost real-time decoding on most current PCs in 60k word dictation task. Major search techniques are fully incorporated such as tree lexicon, N-gram factoring, cross-word context dependency handling, enveloped beam search, Gaussian pruning, Gaussian selection, etc. Besides search efficiency, it is also modularized carefully to be independent from model structures, and various HMM types are supported such as shared-state triphones and tied-mixture models, with any number of mixtures, states, or phones. Standard formats are adopted to cope with other free modeling toolkit such as HTK, CMU-Cam SLM toolkit, etc. The main platform is Linux and other Unix workstations, and also works on Windows. Most recent version is developed on Linux and Windows (cygwin / mingw), and also has Microsoft SAPI version. Julius is distributed with open license together with source codes. Note: you should prepare a language model and an acoustic model to run a speech recognition with Julius. "

Denshi Jisho is an easy-to-use and powerful online Japanese dictionary. It lets you find words, kanji and example sentences by searching in many ways. The dictionaries are also interlinked so that you can check what the kanji in a word mean individually or what context a word can be used in. You can also look up kanji by the parts it contain. Denshi Jisho uses Open Search so you can use the word search from your browser's search box. For example, to use this in Firefox, choose "Add Denshi Jisho …" from the menu in the search box. Denshi Jisho Bookmarklet. Drag the link to the favourites/bookmark bar in your browser. Select a Japanese word on a page, then click the bookmarklet to make a quick lookup on that word. Denshi Jisho is also available for mobile phones. Just go to jisho.org with your keitai and it should automatically take you to the mobile version. You can also use k.jisho.org to access it from any device.

Website for creating podcasts. Includes option to record by phone with a toll-free number.

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.\nUsers can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded on web sites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs as archival movies.\nWith VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install.

A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves. They disagree about whether this will lead to more social tolerance, more forgiving human relations, or better home lives.

Jaxtr gives you lots of useful ways to talk on your phone - some are free, some cost just a little. Alternative to Skype

iPhone/iPod app that connects with computer and allows user to draw characters on phone for input on computer.

With K7, you can receive faxes and voice messages without having to be at the office. You can receive both faxes and voice messages the same way you receive your email. Your voice messages and fax messages will be sent as email attachments and can be viewed with the click of a mouse. If you can't access your email remotely, you can receive both faxes and voice messages via the K7 Web site. K7 will also work with free email services such as "Hotmail".

Learnosity's Voice-based products use the telephone to enable language students and teachers to interact on a one to one level. * Makes it practical for students to practice Oral and Aural skills, * Is efficient and effective for teachers, as they can listen to each student individually at a time to suit them, * Can be used for homework assignments or "High Stakes Assessments" Learnosity's OnScreen learning and assessment tools allow secure online testing across all subject areas. * Technology is mature and proven - over 5 million tests delivered, * Designed to work for "Special Provisions" students, * Extensible design allows new question formats to be added

Recording audio has never been easier! Simply call us using a touch-tone telephone or a VoIP client. No microphone or audio editing software required. Each of your channels can be subscribed to by an RSS client like iTunes, IE7, Firefox or any number of web-based portals. Post audio content to your blogs! We integrate with popular blogging software like Blogger, TypePad, WordPress and more! Create audio greetings to welcome users to your website! Or use a greeting as an audio avatar or signature in an email! Connect with colleagues and friends in conference calls! It's easy to use and you can try it for free.