10 month ago
Linkorama : TweetSpeak - Twitter is a popular micro-blogging site that easily demands too much of your attention for the simple reason that you have to read it. Now you can listen instead. TweetSpeak lets you give your friends the continuous partial attention they deserve without
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11 month ago
deusx : betterrec - "I wrote this program because I noticed that my PalmOS device (LifeDrive) contains quite a good hardware for recording sound, but (surprisingly) there was no good software which could fully use its potential."
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16 month ago
Rod Begbie : Polar Rose - Firefox plugin which collaboratively identifies faces in photos all over the web. There's no smart matching yet, but that's promised for the future. Creepy, inevitable, and awesome. #
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18 month ago
nelson : Breaking captchas - Some random guy in Ukraine attacks captchas and publishes results
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20 month ago
jimray : Google Voice Local Search - Oh, this is wicked cool
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Linkorama : “New Presence†- New Presence knows the fundamentals of what we do, where, with whom, and the relationship we have with those individuals, and how we might want to interact with others.
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31 month ago
philgyford : Dejal - Narrator - Handy Mac app for reading out stories or scripts. Can give each script character a different voice, and leave a gap for you to say your lines.
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31 month ago
philgyford : Speech Accent Archive - Hear people from different parts of the world recite the same paragraph. Fascinating.
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31 month ago
philgyford : IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive - Another archive of people from around the world speaking texts with their different accents.
jkottke : The International Dialects of English Archive has a ton of mp3 files of people speaking English from all over the world - The International Dialects of English Archive has a ton of mp3 files of people speaking English from all over the world. "All recordings are in English, are of native speakers, and you will find both English language dialects and English spoken in the acc
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38 month ago
Linkorama : Adam Bosworth's Speaks Up - I finally posted an entry that I've been sitting on for 3 months. I should have posted it 3 months ago.
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Space station gets HAL-like computer - A voice-operated computer assistant is set to be used in space for the first time on Monday
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42 month ago
kayodeok : NASA Develops Trek-Like Speaking Computer - NASA will soon be installing a new voice-activated computer system on the International Space Station that bears a striking resemblance to Star Trek's computer system
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42 month ago
kayodeok : NASA, Xerox to Demonstrate voice-operated 'Virtual Crew Assistant' - "Clarissa is a fully voice-operated 'virtual crew assistant,' enabling astronauts to be more efficient with their hands and eyes and to give full attention to the task while they navigate through the procedure using spoken commands,"
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42 month ago
kayodeok : More technical details on the Clarissa Project (Clarissa is a Trek-Like Speaking Computer) - Clarissa is a fully voice-operated procedure browser, enabling astronauts to be more efficient with their hands and eyes and to give full attention to the task while they navigate through the procedure using spoken commands
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