Now as exciting as that sounds, don't get too excited yet. This is not speech recognition in the normal sense of the term. No, you can't say "Mom" and the iPhone will automatically dial your mother's number. Not going to happen. And the reason why is AT&T is developing the feature to run as a web feature. So when you speak, the data is sent to a remote server, then comes back to perform an action on your handset.

The service, called Speech Mashups, is web-based, so iPhone first gen users will probably be out of luck if stuck with using the EDGE network.

And even though voice dialing won't work with this brand of speech recognition, it will work for a few other nifty things. There's a video online showing a man dictating a city and type of business in YellowPages and how Speech Mashups does all of the footwork for you. Pretty cool, but voice dialing would be even nicer!

[via Gadget Lab from Wired.com]

	1. Written by Anonymous on 25-07-2008 22:08 - Guest - IP: 220.245.178.141
	There is an app for voice dialing in the appstore.

	2. Written by Sean on 25-07-2008 13:29 - Guest - IP: 58.165.74.145
	Why does it seem that all things for the iPhone come half-done?

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