The Siri effect is spreading. Starting this fall, Nuance, a company that makes advanced speech recognition and transcription software, will bundle its Dragon Assistant, a Siri-like, vocal sidekick, ...

After six tries, Dragon NaturallySpeaking may have finally gotten it right. PC speech recognition has been around for awhile. And successive editions were increasingly accurate, but the program always ...

Have you talked to your computer lately? (Shouting curses at a system crash doesn’t count.) Chances are, you haven’t — though spoken commands and dictation are options for both Microsoft Windows XP ...

Beginning in February, Microsoft plans to offer a new feature for young students: Immersive Reader dictation, a new feature within Office 365 apps for Windows and the Mac. As a parent of two ...

Q. I have used Microsoft Word’s speech recognition tool for years, and I’ve been very pleased with how well it works. However, I’ve recently upgraded to a new ...

Q: Are there any free voice recognition programs for my computer that are worth trying? A: The pursuit to have computers understand human speech started in the early 1950s when Bell Labs designed a ...

Recognition screensaver on a PC, in which the character responds to questions, e.g. "Where are you?" or statements, e.g. "Hello. "]] In computer science, speech recognition (SR) is the translation of ...

How many times have you told your computer to do something and you really wish it would do it? I know I have a few times… :) Well, In Windows Vista you can use voice commands to make your computer do ...

Sometimes a word can be so hard to spell that any attempts are too garbled for autocorrect to offer helpful suggestions. Whenever I find myself struggling to spell a word, I double-tap the Command key ...

Frederick Jelinek, 77, a brilliant and determined engineer who overcame the challenges of a boyhood in Nazi-occupied Europe to come to the United States and teach computers how to recognize the sounds ...