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Here's another entry in our "Five Apps For" series, which identifies five iPhone/iPod touch apps that fill a specific niche, appeal to a particular crowd, or cover an area of interest. Enjoy! As an ...

The iPhone 3GS has some cool voice-control features -- you can call contacts and play songs, for example -- but Vlingo adds Jedi-like levels of mind tricks with the latest version of its iPhone app.

While talking computers are old hat today, in 1978, a talking toy like the Speak and Spell was the height of novel tech. [Kevin] found a vintage one, but it didn’t work. It looked like someone had ...

Speak up Having voice functionality available in smartphone apps isn't new. But cloud computing, more powerful devices, and improvements in the technology mean that more and more companies are using ...

We all love the Arduino, but does the Arduino love us back? There used to be a time when the Arduino couldn’t express it’s deepest emotions, but now that [Nick] hooked up a speech synthesis chip from ...

Each week, Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment. Last Saturday it was the the Triadex Muse. This week, he ...

If I’ve written you an email on my phone lately, you might have noticed something slightly off about it. It doesn’t read like email from me used to. I use fewer contractions, fewer adverbs, and I’m ...