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You don’t need to talk like a robot or an English language professor to control and dictate messages to your phone or computer. Here’s how the speech-to-text software makers suggest you should speak.

Nuance, which makes the Dragon speech-recognition programs, just came out with a new Dragon app for mobile gadgets—iPhones, iPads, and Android. The timing might seem a little odd. After all, iPhones, ...

If you’ve got an Android phone, try this: Hit the microphone icon on the home screen, then ask, “How many angstroms in a mile?” Use your normal speaking voice—don’t speak slowly or strain to ...

Voice-recognition software is nothing new. But put it on a smartphone, and it comes to life. All of the frustrations of trying to control your PC by voice–fiddling for a microphone, repeating yourself ...

Though the world is captivated by Siri and her charming ways, old-skoolers know better that she’s not the first virtual assistant to be offering such service. Siri may have brought some personality to ...

When voice recognition first arrived on phones, I thought it would, like most things that phones learn to do, make the world a notably worse place. And then voice recognition shook out to be, like ...

For some time now, we’ve been searching the Internet and asking Google questions with our voices alone. It’s pretty accurate, and has been since it launched back with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, but the ...

The popular free note-taking and organizing software Evernote has added speech-recognition support to its app for phones running Google’s Android operating system. Android Ice Cream Sandwich However, ...

I read in Steven Levy's In the Plex over the weekend that Google used its free 1-800-GOOG-411 service as a way to build the massive voice recognition database that would eventually become Voice Search ...

When Google built the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, the web giant made some big changes to the way the OS interprets your voice commands. It installed a voice recognition ...