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It offered a fully cloud-based speech-to-text transcription platform that was used by customers such as Microsoft. [1] The Company was a contestant at the inaugural TechCrunch conference [2] and was subsequently acquired by Amazon in September 2011 [3] to help develop products such as Alexa Voice Service, Echo, [4] and Fire TV.
Amazon Polly is a cloud service by Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, that converts text into spoken audio. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It allows developers to create speech-enabled applications and products. [ 4 ]
Dragon NaturallySpeaking uses a minimal user interface. As an example, dictated words appear in a floating tooltip as they are spoken (though there is an option to suppress this display to increase speed), and when the speaker pauses, the program transcribes the words into the active window at the location of the cursor.
Other notable Amazon services on the phone include X-Ray, used for identifying and finding information about media; Mayday, the 24-hour customer service tool; and Firefly, a tool for automatically recognizing text, sounds, and objects, and offering a way to buy recognized items through Amazon's online store. [8] The phone received mixed reviews.
Speech Recognition is available only in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese and only in the corresponding version of Windows; meaning you cannot use the speech recognition engine in one language if you use a version of Windows in another language.
One intriguing feature of Amazon's new Kindle 2, which was unveiled recently, is text-to-speech. The digital reading device is capable of reading, in a variety of synthetic voices, any text shown ...
Kindle Fire showing components, back cover removed. The Amazon Fire, formerly called the Kindle Fire, is a line of tablet computers developed by Amazon.Built with Quanta Computer, the Kindle Fire was first released in November 2011, featuring a color 7-inch multi-touch display with IPS technology and running on Fire OS, an Android-based operating system.
Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer speech recognition or speech-to-text (STT).