The first time and also the last time I was using a voice recognition software is around 10 years ago when I was working on my university thesis. It’s IBM ViaVoice. I was just tired of typing, but I had to give up after several days’ trying as I realized that it’s even more time consuming if you had to do the correction from time to time. iOS now comes with a simple voice recognition function too, but I have not seen anyone using it to play song, make call etc, and it does not work well with Chinese too.
I was totally amazed by Kouxun, the voice-to-text mobile application developed by iFlyteq (app store download). It’s deadly simple to use. Basically you just speak (Chinese mandarin only) with normal speed, the text will be auto typed in which can be sent as short message or email by one-click. Even the punctuations are auto inserted into the sentence. I’ve tried a couple of times, and the results are just perfect.
Kouxun requires the internet access as it’s actually a typical cloud-computing service. You voice is captured and its information is somehow sent to the cloud where it’s processed and return the text back to the phone.
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