Tegic Communications, subsidiary of AOL, is aiming to make text input easier with a new product announcement and a new partnership that will add speech and handwriting recognition to mobile devices. Tegic today rolled out the latest edition of its T9 predictive text input software. Version 7.3 comes with "thousands of words, emoticons, and punctuation," and also has a predictive type function that helps users complete words as they type them. "However, there is certainly a potential application for the mobile AIM and ICQ services, for example speaking instant messages rather than typing them," Gifford told internetnews.com.I'd hope somebody could clue me in here. Is there a need for a technology developing speech recognition on wireless devices? Don't we already have that? It's called a cellphone. Now, we need to be able to talk into a device to interpret what we say into text to send it to another device to translate text back to speech for the other person to hear?
Why not develop something really useful, like a device that ferrets out left-liberals from a crowd and gives 'em a 20 KVA jolt?