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"Type with your voice. Dictation turns your Google Chrome into a speech recognition app. You can use your Google Chrome as a voice recognition app and type long documents, emails and essays without touching the keyboard. The app is integrated with Dropbox and Google Drive so you can easily export you transcribed text to your cloud accounts. Or your can send the text to your email address."

" I tested three different voice-input keyboards: Jelly Bean's default (Google voice typing), Swype, and TouchPal. Each of these keyboards offers voice recognition which you can use to dictate emails, text messages, notes, and anything else you can think of. The feature is very easy to use in all these apps - simply tap the voice icon and start talking."

"To help address this challenge, we've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be perfect (check out the video below for an amusing example), but even when they're off, they can still be helpful-and the technology will continue to improve with time."

"developing a case for tablet computers that can serve as a virtual interpreter for the deaf. Known as UNI, the case uses gesture recognition technology developed by Leap Motion to translate sign language into audible speech. It then merges this with voice recognition technology to convert spoken word to text."

"Meet Dictation v2.0, a web-based speech recognition app that will transcribe your voice into digital text using the Chrome Speech API. You can also install Dictation as a Chrome App. Unlike the regular Chrome web apps that are nothing but fancy bookmarks, the Dictation App for Chrome will run entirely on your computer. "

"WritePad is an advanced notetaker app that lets you to take notes in your own handwriting, which is immediately converted to the digital text using PhatWare's state-of-the-art handwriting recognition software. You can also use simple gestures to select text, cut, copy, paste, and insert special characters. "

"More than another note-taking app, PhatPad turns your iPad into an advanced brainstorming tool. Draw, write, and type your ideas then instantly share them via email, WiFi sync, Dropbox, or presentation mode. PhatPad's digital ink technology and handwriting recognition engine allows you to scribble handwritten notes and drawings and convert them into digital text, or perfect geometrical shapes"

"PDF Connoisseur does it all for you ✔ Save to PDF - converting other doc formats into PDFs ✔ PDF Page Editor - rearrange or truncate pages in PDF and save it as a new file ✔ PDF flatten - preserve all the edits and valuable information within a PDF ✔ Text-to-Speech - listen to your documents ✔ Image to text - turn your images into searchable text files with OCR recognition ✔ PDF form filling & contract signing ✔ Easy file transfer with all manner of cloud storage services, FTP, and WebDAV ✔ Highlight, annotate, and add built-in stamps to PDFs"

"iWordQ US (English) is an easy-to-use writing and reading application to assist struggling writers and readers. In Writing mode, a simple text editor is used for writing with the support of word prediction, abbreviation-expansion and speech feedback features. Spell-check and dictionary access is included. Use speech recognition with an iPad 3. In Reading mode, text is shown in a more visually pleasing manner to improve readability. This is used for proofreading, reading to learn, silent reading, reading aloud, and casual reading/listening. A novel text chunking method (patent-pending) can be selected to enhance comprehension and readability of text to allow you to focus on one text chunk at a time"

"More than another note-taking app, PhatPad turns your iPad into an advanced brainstorming tool. Draw, write, and type your ideas then instantly share them via email, WiFi sync, Dropbox, or presentation mode. PhatPad's digital ink technology and handwriting recognition engine allows you to scribble handwritten notes and drawings and convert them into digital text, or perfect geometrical shapes."

Fee of $1. per 100 pages. Converted to PDF with OCR recognition.

"If you are new to speech recognition technology, you may need a little direction as you get started.  We recommend you view some of the following special resources* intended to jump start your use of this exciting technology: Tips for Improving Accuracy  Dragon Support and Troubleshooting Tutorials Microphone Troubleshooting and Set-up Guide Microphone Selection Guide"

"iWordQ US (English) is an easy-to-use writing and reading application to assist struggling writers and readers. In Writing mode, a simple text editor is used for writing with the support of word prediction, abbreviation-expansion and speech feedback features. Spell-check and dictionary access is included. Use speech recognition with an iPad 3, 4, mini."

"The latest version of Dictanote features QuickType, a faster than ever speech recognition engine using which you can actually write faster than normal typing. DictaNote's built-in speech recogniser using which you can dictate sentences , edit the output and add them together to form paragraphs."

"Speaking of strengths . . .at back-to-school night I listened to curriculum discussions and then wondered where Maya's literacy level (letter recognition, etc) is. I picked up a book and asked her about a few words, and she surprised me. Yesterday I wrote a few sentences, and she actually was able to read them with the talker. I tried again at breakfast this morning (because nothing counts until it's video documented, right?), check it out:"

"Convert your phone into a mobile text scanner What the Text Fairy can do * perform OCR (optical character recognition) * Edit extracted text * copy extracted text into the clipboard for use in other apps * convert the scanned page into PDF * recognizes printed text from more than 50 languages"

"The World's Smallest Wireless Scanner Scan notes, photos, documents, even art! With a hand scanner barely larger than a business card. Dacuda PocketScan *  High-quality scan as PDF, text or image *  Powerful text recognition, ideal for Word & Excel *  Bluetooth interface, compatible with Windows, Mac, iOS, Android"

Stay connected, even when you are "Hands- Busy"\nDragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages on your iPad™, iPhone™ or iPod touch™. In fact, it's up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard. (from Nuance) A FREE Application downloadable from iTunes. You should read the reviews at iTunes for cautions before installing.

"Web Reader 2.2 for iPhone uses text to speech technology along with web page content recognition to read web pages to you. You can configure web pages to be read as soon as they are loaded, read pages manually after they are loaded, or use Cut, Copy, & Paste to read only sections of text"

"Voice Finger is a software tool that enables you to control your mouse and keyboard just using your voice, in the fastest possible way." Voice Finger can also be useful for all speech users, since it gives a fast and direct way of typing, moving and clicking anything. Windows only.