Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

The quality of in-game voice and text chat could soon improve in smaller games. Vivox, the company that provides the communications technology in massive blockbusters like Fortnite, Rainbow Six: Siege ...

Taking a close look at speech analytics, what it is, why it is important, and what we believe are the best speech analytics platforms available today. Speech analytics plays a vital role in ...

In today's economy, businesses need to have a fast-paced, global reach in order to compete. Large corporations can afford to hire employees who speak a variety of languages and put them in strategic ...

Mozilla has released an open source voice recognition tool that it says is “close to human level performance,” and free for developers to plug into their projects. The free-software company also on ...

If you’re looking to take your productivity up a notch (or if you’re just a really slow typist), the best speech-to-text software is a sure way to do it. The idea is pretty simple: You speak, and the ...

Consolidating the rapidly growing market for voice recognition systems and services, Nuance Communications is in the process of acquiring Vlingo, a provider of mobile voice recognition and analysis ...

Text-to-speech technology will be featured in a range of Redmond's server products, beginning with Speech Server 2004. Microsoft announced Wednesday that it plans to use text-to-speech technology from ...

Software maker ScanSoft is set to announce on Tuesday a new version of its OpenSpeech Recognizer software for running voice-activated phone systems. The OSR software typically is used for customer ...

Computers have already beaten us at chess, Jeopardy and Go, the ancient board game from Asia. And now, in the raging war with machines, human beings have lost yet another battle — over typing. Turns ...

A voice software technology developer is suing Amazon.com Inc., saying the e-commerce giant infringed on patents when developing software for the Alexa digital assistant. VB Assets LLC, which owns the ...

Jive Software will add voice over IP (VoIP) calling within a month to its instant messaging software, which has been renamed Openfire. The company on Thursday released a beta of Openfire version 3.2, ...