The voice training involved with the VR stuff normally prohibits it's use, I 
know they have got better over the years but my last attempt at VR was 5 years 
ago and it did not work out very well.

ATB

Alex 
On 13 Sep 2012, at 13:53, Nic Wise <[email protected]> wrote:

> Personally, I've never liked voice as an input mechanism, but that
> might also be to do with seldom driving, so hands free isnt' as much
> use :)
> 
> Doing VR on an 8088 is rather impressive. 4Mhz doesn't get you far -
> and makes the 800mhz+ iPhone look quite powerful by comparison.
> 
> I'm sure there is a library out there you can use. I'd like TTS and
> STT built into the OS and with an API, but sadly, they are not
> available yet.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:55 AM, rnendel11 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Supposedly iSpeech will do it and has a Monotouch wrapper (supposedly again),
>> but it does have a cost associated.
>> 
>> My first software architect job, coincidentally, was writing voice
>> recognition software long ago on 8088 systems (yeah, I'm that old, haha) -
>> of course I've forgotten all of that, and, well, voice recognition is
>> complex enough not to be a "roll your own" when just desired as "additional
>> functionality".
>> 
>> Was hoping there might be a turnkey solution out there, or the apple SDK -
>> apparently there is such functionality for the mac, just not in IOS (not
>> surprising).
>> 
>> 
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