Yesterday I visited the CEBIT exhibition in Hannover. My first impression was a bit disappointing. It was not the same CEBIT as I knew it 5 years ago during my last visit. No real break-throughs as I expected. Every piece of hardware gets more memory, more powerful CPU, better and faster connectivity, display size grows, HD-everywhere and so on. But these are not the things a consumer can be suprised with. Expectations grow and more is needed nowadays to produce excitement.
But I still managed to find the answers for the question I've taken to CEBIT this year. The goal was clear to find a solution of building custom applications on mobile devices which can be controlled via voice commands. We have found 4 potential products that could be useful in this case. The most promising candidate is the italian company Loquendo that offers an SDK that allows to enrich an existing application so that it understands speaker independent voice commands.
Microsoft were not really helpful in this issue, but they gave me a contact person that might possess required information. There exists an SDK for mostly all MS products. Why should not it be available for the "Microsoft Voice Command"?
So the next steps are to evaluate the Loquendo product and get informed about the "Speech SDK for Windows Mobile". I'll write here more when I get some interesting results.
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