New Mobile Takes Dictation

Samsung dictation phone“South Korean electronics giant Samsung unveiled the first of two cell phones that translate speech into text, in the latest attempt to make it easier for cell phones to surf the Web or send text messages. Rather than typing, consumers just speak into the phone, telling it the e-mail address and the content of the message. The phone does the rest.” Of course, once this technology is working reasonably well it won’t be long before it’s incorporated into other mobile content, such as games…for example talking to Vivienne the virtual girlfriend instead of typing messages.

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