This is a wireless neckband called an "Audeo". It's in the very beginning stages of development. It's likened to the very first S/R programs.

David Pogue reports on the Mac OS Extender Parallels 3.0:

It looks like Microsoft's new IE7, which I thought was supposed to help protect against phishing scams, has a large gap in protection!

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Microsoft is investigating a possible vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7 that could help cybercrooks launch phishing scams, the company said Wednesday.

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As Microsoft is out touting the "wow" of Windows Vista, two federal agencies are among those saying "whoa."

The Department of Transportation (DOT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cite fear of compatibility problems as one of the reasons not to allow their tens of thousands of employees to upgrade to Microsoft's latest operating system.

Found this today.
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Microsoft Corp. shares were up 1.7 percent at $27.16. It said it will buy privately held Tellme Networks, a voice-recognition technology company.

Preamble: Having just released a new version of KnowBrainer 2006 and UniVoice that will work with NaturallySpeaking Preferred 9, this seemed like a good time to introduce a new KnowBrainer/UniVoice Speech Recognition Forum.  I'd like to thank Skip Taylor for making this forum possible.

I've been wondering why there wasn't something like this a long time ago.

For the longest time I've wanted to have ONE headset to use with the land line phone, my cell phone and speech recognition. I also thought it would be ideal if it was wireless. I think I've found the answer, at least at first look! Now to figure out how to budget to be able to buy it!

Full story: http://www.macnn.com/blogs/?p=134

On October 24, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple’s newly granted patent for ‘Assigning meanings to utterances in a speech recognition system,’ which was originally filed on February 18, 2004. Apple’s granted patent relates to speech recognition systems. More specifically, the patent relates to the generation of language model(s) and the interpretation of speech based upon specified sets of these language model(s).

Hello to everybody,

I have not really been interested in voice recognition for over a year and even before that I was somewhat of a new be. My current configuration to run Dragon eight preferred in both English and French is microprocessor Intel Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz, as far as RAM is concerned one gigaoctect of that 160 giggeroctets of ROM, soundcard Sound Blaster live 24, and from eMicrophones the best wired headset which they have tried from Sennheiser.