Voice assistant is all the rage. With Siri in the lead, let's look at some classic speech recognition software of yesteryear, such as IBM Shoebox.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Swype’ s software keyboard lets you swipe to type text, instead of hunting and pecking virtual keys. With its latest update, Swype has replaced Google’s built-in voice recognition for Nuance ...

And if that’s not enough, Android lets you dictate your e-mail and text messages, too. If you’ve tried speech-recognition software in the past, you may be skeptical of Android’s capabilities.

The group of DIY robot builders over at Cellbots decided that Android's native voice recognition system was too good to be wasted on drunk-dialling your mother and searching for the latest sports ...

When you talk to Android's voice recognition software, the spectrogram of what you've said is chopped up and sent to eight different computers housed in Google's vast worldwide army of servers.