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Watch for voice-enabled browser for pocket PCs

by Guy Kewney | posted on 23 July 2002


The Jornada 928 Wireless Digital Assistant can surf the web - but can you control it?

Guy Kewney

Users of mobile devices - like the Jornada 928 phone - will be able to access the web, corporate networks and email services using voice commands - the Babel Automatic Speech Recognition system will be embedded in the EZOS browser.

The technology is speaker-independent, says EZOS which will embed Babel's ASR) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) technology into its micro-browsers, which are developed specifically for mobile devices.