Talking Technologies maintains this resource about speech recognition, voice synthesis, microphones, and translation. It includes an on-line shop for software, hardware, accessories, and training, and 24 7 52 free technical support.

If you found this page as part of an internet search about speech input, voice recognition, voice to text, voice activation, voice command and control, dictation, screen readers, headsets, transcription, or training, it's probably what you want.

Talking Technologies has worked with computer-based speech and language systems since they first became practically useful, rather than just technically interesting, in 1991.
Research projects have now become popular retail applications used at home, in school, and for work. They've radically changed computer access for people with injuries or disabilities, leading to better work opportunities.

Here are some of the names, which you may recognise: Dragon, IBM, L+H, Philips, Kurzweil, ScanSoft, NaturallySpeaking Preferred and Professional, ViaVoice, VoiceXpress, FreeSpeech, Talk Mics microphones, SpeechMikes, Talk Back, Olympus, Power Translator, DragonDictate, IBM VoiceType, VoicePlus, and Learning English.

Speech-To-Text, or speech recognition, is the software process that converts speech to text. Although voice recognition, or VR, is often perceived as being the same thing, true voice recognition uses pattern-matching to identify you.

Text-To-Speech, or speech synthesis, is the software process that converts text to speech. Although voice synthesis is often perceived as being the same thing, true voice synthesis uses a mathematical model to generate an artificial voice.
Generally, text-to-speech systems connect digitised fragments of human speech in real time. The final quality depends on the prosody rules applied to the fragments as they are sequenced.