Metaglossia: The Translation World

If computers are rendered capable of recognising speech it will one day be the norm to give commands by voice rather than via a keyboard. “Speaking” with a mobile phone is already commonplace for many people.

C'est la machine qui vous parle
La reconnaissance vocale, c'est quand la machine comprend ce que vous lui dites. Du genre, « voulez-vous contacter votre conseiller bancaire ? », vous répondez « oui », et c'est parti... La synthèse vocale, c'est l'inverse : la machine vous parle d'une voix aussi vraie que nature, comme sur les serveurs vocaux de la SNCF ou les bornes RER. À France Télécom Lannion, un groupe travaille sur cette technique depuis une vingtaine d'années autour de Thierry Moudenc, pointure mondiale dans le domaine.

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AT&T has been involved in the speech recognition space for years. And now, the company wants to share with others what it's achieved.
The company announced today that it will make several AT&T Watson Speech application programming interfaces (APIs) available to developers in June. With the help of those APIs, developers will be able to create new apps and services that rely upon AT&T's Watson speech recognition technology.
The first set of APIs that AT&T plans to release will focus on Web search, question-and-answer, SMS, and dictation, among other areas, the company said. In addition, it will offer up a software development kit (SDK) for those developers who want to "capture a user's spoken words and send them into the network for transcription." AT&T says that the SDK should make it easy to integrate Watson into existing apps.

AT&T's research arm has spent over two decades developing its Watson speech and language engine, which translates spoken words into text. Now, AT&T is planning to release a number of Watson APIs for developers in June, in an effort to accelerate development and innovation in the voice recognition space. Instead of having to develop their own speech recognition software, developers will now be able to plug AT&T's Watson APIs into their apps to more easily include voice recognition features.