What you see here could very well be Microsoft’s upcoming Project Natal, where it comes complete with directions as spotted by somebody who was specially hired to analysis the system’s speech recognition capability. It does seem as though the Natal unit is called for to be plugged into the wall, as it does not look as though it will draw juice from the Xbox 360 itself. Apart from that, there is a tilt mechanism of sorts that gives a warning so that you won’t mess with the device itself. Looking forward to the Natal’s launch?

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It looks like Google has just made YouTube a lot more accessible to dead and hearing-impaired folks. With robotic captions (auto-caps) in YouTube, captions can be processed through Google’s robotic speech recognition (ASR) technology to offer motorized captions to the videos. It uses the same voice recognition algorithms used in Google Voice. Of course, the captions certainly won’t be perfect, but we’re certain they’ll be a big help. It’s currently only able to insert captions on English language speech, but Google has been cool ample to offer users the choice to use its robotic translation system to read the captions in 51 languages, now how cool is that? Check out the official details here.

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