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Dolby Volume: No more inaudible speech and deafening music

Crave One of the problems with flat-panel televisions is the sound. A huge amount of effort seems to go into making the case look nice, and producing an impressive picture, but this all seems to be to the detriment of the sound.

Tags: dolby, volume, problems, speakers

8 January 2008, 5:33

Nuance Mobile: What you say is what you get

Crave A while ago, Crave reported on a speech-to-text mobile application made by Nuance, the same company that produces the Dragon Dictate software for PCs. We weren't entirely convinced at the time that any software was capable of converting speech-to...

Tags: speech, phrase, mobile phone, box

14 February 2007, 9:42

Crave Live: Apple iPhone 3G announcement -- in 5 minutes!

Crave Okay, hands up: who really wanted to sit through the entire keynote speech last night? Check out Jobsy's speech, compressed into a gloriously short five minutes. Anyone. Bueller? For those of you with other things to do besides listen to applause...

9 June 2008, 21:00

Nuance & Mobience: Death of the mobile keypad?

Crave What is less well known is that Cook was already beaten by a speech-to-text application developed by a company called Nuance last month. Indeed, not only was Cook beaten, but the Nuance mobile speech platform managed to spell the Guinness phrase...

Tags: speech, layout, mobile phone, phrase

14 November 2006, 11:50

Top ten Internet memes

Crave These were the infamous words spoken by ageing US Senator Ted Stevens, during a speech arguing against Net neutrality in 2006. When it was converted for release in the West, the English translation was done so poorly that none of the speech made...

9 November 2007, 8:00

Deals of the day: Cheap TVs

Crave Now it's the day after Boxing Day and prices are dropping faster than the nation's eyelids during the Queen's speech -- here are five great deals on high-definition TVs. If you splurged out on a smashing great big TV set before Christmas, only to...

Tags: definition, christmas, shop, inch

27 December 2007, 8:10

Samsung YV-150: Make your own audio book

Crave We weren't expecting Samsung to create a digital audio player that converts text to speech, but you never know what those crazy Korean dudes are up to. It's called the YV-150 and it works with six languages, including English, Japanese and Chinese.

Tags: samsung, voice, chinese, recording

22 May 2007, 12:01

Photos: LG Joy and Samsung i520

Crave The event is held every year and we expected to hear the same old 'smart phones are the future' speech and see some interesting new Symbian applications. Today Crave went along to the Symbian smart phone show.

17 October 2006, 15:58

Motorola Scpl: Who missed English class?

Crave Grammar and spelling would go out the window and we would all be talking in a way that some speech therapists might have trouble with. Imagine if Motorola ruled the world, or should I say the Wrld. Luckily it doesn't, but the latest rumour to hit...

Tags: motorola, press, range, conference

25 May 2006, 11:42

Crave Live: Apple iPhone 3G unveiled at WWDC

Crave CNET.com's Molly Wood reports from the Worldwide Developers' Conference in San Francisco with all the salient iPhone details from Steve Jobs' keynote speech -- including how the new third-party apps can help us become brain surgeons.

10 June 2008, 9:05

reQall: Give your brain a rest, use your phone to remember

Crave If you're terrible at remembering things and averse to writing things down or tapping into your phone's calendar, a service that's just launched in the UK claims it has the answer.reQall is a mobile phone speech-to-text service (similar to SpinVox...

Tags: service, calendar, calling, memo

11 December 2007, 10:50

Crave Podcast 13: Who's bored of blogs?

Crave Are blogs an essential alternative news source and a massive tool for freedom of speech, or merely glorified diaries that make you reach for the snooze button? Everybody's doing it, from government ministers to that guy in class who never utters a...

Tags: crave, podcast, crave podcast, government

25 September 2006, 16:19

Car Tech: Fiat 500 -- the iPod of cars, powered by Windows

Crave The 500, voted European car of the year, uses Microsoft Automotive technology -- a special combination of hardware and software that lets drivers interact with the vehicle using speech. Can you believe it?

30 June 2008, 18:00

Planet CNET Episode 7: Talking plants and cars

Crave Next, we're off to Japan for a toy plant that reacts to speech, and finally Rory Reid takes a look at the talking Fiat 500 -- check back on the site soon as we'll have more on this in a new episode of Car Tech.

25 June 2008, 11:08

Canon DW-100 portable DVD recorder saves the day

Crave A quick bit of in-camera editing while the best man makes his inappropriately revealing speech, and you're ready to start handing out DVDs by the time the toasts come round -- in theory anyway, as there's no word on burn speeds yet.

Tags: canon, definition, camcorder, footage

26 November 2007, 10:54