Text-to-Speech

January 8, 2009 The wristwatch video phone we’ve been waiting for nearly half a century thanks to the broadly syndicated Dick Tracy cartoon strips, is finally about to arrive. LG Electronicshas unveiled the world’s first Touch Watch Phone and it appears to be the hamburger with the lot – camera, Fl

Nextar’s new SNAP5 and SNAP7 GPS navigation systems feature 5” and 7” touch-screen displays respectively. They measure 0.7” thick with Nextar’s magnetic docking station and come with built-in stereo speakers and text-to-speech (English) technology.

Another clever product that caught our eye at the British Motor Show is the Azentec SmartMirror - a Bluetooth enabled GPS unit complete with touch screen functionality that's been rolled into a the rear-view mirror.

BlueAnt Wireless’ Supertooth 3 Bluetooth Handsfree incorporates advanced ‘Text-to-Speech’ technology, which announces the incoming caller’s name or Caller ID and allows the user to verbally accept or reject the call.

The new Uniden TRAX Series GPS models display key landmarks in 3D from any angle including elevated city maps, contours and rises on the road in major metropolitan areas.

TomTom’s latest car navigation products – the TomTom ONE and TomTom XL - feature a revised audio system with a much larger, enhanced speaker system and a completely redesigned body, including a folding mount.

October 23, 2006 Text-to-speech converters suck, or at least they used to suck – these days the latest converters such as the US$30 Odiogo are remarkably goo

January 24, 2005 Korean personal electronics manufacturer iRiver has released yet another convergent device onto its domestic market. The oddly-named Dicple is

October 5, 2004 Girls not knocking down your door to go out with you? Tired of dealing with those complex issues such as feelings? How about getting a 'virtual

Celebrated Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has selected and is using NeoSpeech's Text-to-Speech engine, VoiceText, as his new voice. VoiceText is integrated into

HP and VisuAide have shown the Maestro, the first mainstream handheld PC for the blind and visually impaired. Built on the HP iPAQ Pocket PC h4150 platform, Mae