Distinguishing between a wink, a nod, and an iPod

Do you sometimes feel that the convenience of having hundreds of songs and other digital files loaded onto your iPod is offset by the inconvenience of having to manually navigate through the file list? OK, well maybe not. But still, you should know that a researcher at Osaka University has ...

Voice-to-text service offered for BlackBerry

SpinVox, a United Kingdom-based voice-to-text specialist that in October introduced support for "microblogging" networks such as Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce, has launched a plug-in for BlackBerry handsets.

Called SpinVox Voicemail, the service identifies the caller and converts the voice message into text or e-mail or both. (The message remains audible.) ...