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Originally Posted by dov View Post
Have a look at Wikipedia and you will see that Naturally speaking has been around since the early ninetees. The computers in those days were a couple of order of magnitudes weaker than the N900. If those computers could manage voice processing so can the N900. But also remember that to do voice dialing it is not a question of the much more difficult free speech recognition, but only of mapping a short sound stream to one out of e.g. 200 distinct names in your phone book. But I don't even want the phone to do the speech to text mapping. I would settle for making my own recording for each phone entry. The software would then only need to search for the entry with the best correlation of the phone entries to the search entry, which is a much simpler problem. That's the way voice dialing worked in my old Siemens phone, btw.

OK so you are saying the N900 could handle speech to text from a pure power perspective. I haven't seen that for Linux based computers, though. Does it exist?

When I typed what I did about speech to text, I was answering somedude's comment about speech to text "but i would love to see the speech to text, where i can talk and the phone would encode that in text and send it. would love to have that feature," and not the voice dialing per se. We were off topic.

And yes, I agree it is about mapping a short sound stream, and there are even those command "code word" based applications. The question I have though, will Nokia or a third party provide it?