What sort of applications in mobile handsets will propel speech into mainstream adoption?
“Those supporting sophisticated information search and retrieval, designed for entertainment, or targeted toward learning and training. The latter represents a vast, unexploited area where the mobile handset can facilitate learning languages, augmenting elementary or secondary education courses, or even the taking of tests.” – BILL SCHOLZ, PRESIDENT, AVIOS “As more municipalities and governments forbid the use of mobile voice (and data) while driving, presence- and location-based services will drive voice recognition technology into heavy use.” – STEVE HILTON, VICE PRESIDENT OF ENTERPRISE and SMB RESEARCH, YANKEE GROUP “Voice search that offers a simple, unifying paradigm: just say what you want and get it, using a single search box.” – BILL MEISEL, PRESIDENT, TMA ASSOCIATES “Mobile devices will enable the wide adoption of applications involving speech from wherever the user is, not just from the user’s workstation. These include productivity, communications, informational, educational
