What do you do when you set out to leverage the power of existing facial recognition technology to launch a new business, only to discover that the existing technology isn't...

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Voice recognition is not new, I have been using it on mobile devices ever since Microsoft first released Voice Command back in 2003. Of course, the quality of recognition and the ability to control devices has improved significantly since 2003, but a new patent filing by Apple reveals the possibility for voice recognition going to a whole other level. The patent application describes a process for identifying your voice and understanding complex commands.


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Image courtesy of PocketNow.When I asked my friend Adam Lein, of Pocket Now, what he feature in Windows Phone "Mango" stood out the most to him, he said that speech recognition was the big winner for him. Microsft apparently concurs with Adam's opinion because they wrote about this in the official Windows Phone blog and featured Adam's video demonstration (see below).Look who’s talking: Speech in MangoMicrosoft calls Mango's speech recognition feature voice-to-text. It focuses primarly on messag [...]

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Back towards the end of June, Facebook rolled out a feature which made tagging your friends in photos even easier. What made some people unhappy and felt that it violated privacy, was that this tag feature or facial recognition feature, was made a default setting. You could disable this feature (if you even knew about ...

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