The real world focus group consistently indicates that desktop dictation works, but it’s not the panacea manufacturers would like us to believe. […]

Remember what it was like before the telephone answering machine? What about the cell phone or the notebook computer? We seemed to get along just fine without these devices, but now that they are so prevalent, life without them seems incomprehensible. […]

In addition to increased revenue for manufacturers, speech recognition in vehicles addresses the issue of driver distraction. […]

Numbers are staggering, with the disparity being attributed to inadequate training in access technology and lack of awareness that technology exists to accommodate people who are blind. […]

According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 2.6 million children ages six to 11 years old in the U.S. had learning disabilities or attention hyperactivity disorders. […]

Speech recognition software has become as easy to find as candy canes at Christmas. […]

Many people think of biometric deployments in the context of a single biometric challenge that is used for identification or verification of an individual’s identity, focusing on the product without giving much thought to the user. […]

Desktop dictation has changed in the 10 years I have been in the field. From available features to distribution channels, let’s take a look at where we were, where we are, how we got here, and where we might expect to go. […]

In this electronic era with wireless PDAs, email and the Internet, where on the urgency scale is your telephone as a must-have? […]

QPointer Suite, a speech recognition product offering dictation as well as mouse-less computer operation, is the creation of a company with a novel business strategy: to create a flawless assistive technology (AT) product for the disability market before branching into the mainstream arena. […]

In Russia, children with disabilities can be denied an education. In America, we have IDEA. In Brazil, it is acceptable to deny employment to a person with a disability, specifically because he or she is disabled. In the United States, we have the Ticket to Work program. In Italy, there are buildings with steps but […]

If an American goes to Paris and cannot speak French, is the American disabled? She is challenged at the very least. Put her on a telephone in the foreign country, needing to communicate without the benefit of hand gestures or facial expressions, and her handicap becomes greater. […]

As technology progresses, devices become smaller in size. Remember first generation ‘mobile’ phones? They were mobile all right, but they were practically the size of a small child, weighing a few pounds, and barely meeting the airline’s size requirements for carry-on luggage. […]

Carol was struck with polio when she was five years old. A quadriplegic, she had to fight to get an education, and actually wrote President Kennedy a letter, telling him he could pay for her schooling now or he could pay for her disability forever. […]

Picture it. You’re sick; home with the flu. You drag yourself out of bed and make your way toward the medicine cabinet. Your eyes are burning. Reading through the blur of fever, you hope you choose the right bottle; the one with the stuff that will get you back on your feet. […]

A novelist, a marketing executive, and an entrepreneur. Can they all use speech recognition successfully? […]