[Electronics-talk] Cellphone Vocabulary

[cheez]

That's what my co-worker claims.
Vince

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> Vince, so with talks you can verbally dictate a message?
> tom
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> tom:
> He has Talks.  I don't recall which model of phone he has.
> Vince
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>> Vince,
>> What is the name of the product that the co worker has that allows him to
>> dictate a message or email?
>> tom
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>> I understand the difference between voice recognition and text-to-speech.
>> My co-worker says if he wants to send a text message to a person, he just
>> speaks it, which then sends it in text form to the recipient.  That's why
>> I
>> thought the term was speech-to-text, not text-to-speech--which is what 
>> his
>> phone does when he receives a text message.
>> However, I assume since he's using a phone that has Talks on it, that
>> allows
>>
>> his phone to act as a screen-reader.
>> Vince
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>>
>>> Vince,
>>> I believe what your talking about is Voice Recognition and not
>>> Tex-to-Speech. These are two different things. Voice Recognition you
>>> actually need to practice with so it understands what you are saying.
>>> Where Text to Speech actually would would read the screen to you. It 
>>> also
>>> depends on what type of cell phone you purchase as well.
>>> Jessica
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>>>
>>>>I can accomplish this same task on my IPhone with draggon dictate for
>>>> the IPhone.
>>>>
>>>> On 12/12/09, cheez <cheez at cox.net> wrote:
>>>>> Does anyone know what is the correct term used when asking if a
>>>>> cellphone
>>>>> has the feature that allows the user to verbalize a text message?
>>>>> I thought it was called speech-to-text.
>>>>> I know someone that says he can do this with his phone.     He also
>>>>> said
>>
>>>>> he
>>>>> has Talks.  Is this feature only available with software that has to 
>>>>> be
>>>>> loaded onto a phone?  Thanks.
>>>>> Vince
>>>>>
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