Tazti
Tazti is a speech recognition software package developed and sold by Voice Tech Group, Inc. for Windows personal computers. The most recent package is version 2.0.2[1], which supports 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Vista and 7.[2] Tazti is one of the few speech recognition software that offers a free dictation feature in some of their versions.
Features
Tazti Speech Recogniotion software has six primary areas of functionality: 1. dictation[3], 2. play video games by voice[4], 3. speech API for mashing up Tazti to robots, robotics, web apps, or desktop or other programs not a part of Tazti[5] [6] [7], 4. command and control input of programs, files, folders and websites by creating custom speech commands and associating them to a program, file, folder, web URL[8], 5. voice search of Google, Yahoo, Bing, Youtube, twitter, Facebook, eBay, Amazon, and other sites[7] , 6. Operate itunes entirely by voice control[8]. Other features are a part of the software. In addition, a user can create and train a custom voice profile allowing the software to better understand the user.
Tazti utilizes a minimal user interface. As an example, dictated words appear in a balloon and on the user interface dashboard as they are spoken (there is an option to set the balloon so it is not displayed), and when the speaker pauses, the program transcribes the dictated words into the active window at the location of the cursor.
History
Voice Tech Group, Inc. was founded in 2005 as an Ohio corporation centered primarily on research of semantic search and voice search. Voice Tech Group, Inc. released Tazti Speech Recognition 1.0 as their first multifeature speech recognition product in 2005. Early features include mashing up bookmarks and favorites to speech commands, website navigation by voice including of social media sites Facbook and Myspace as well as voice control of itunes.
Version 2.0.2 released in Sept 2010 added dictation, keyboard shortcuts that also allow custom setups for PC game play, an advanced speech API, and the ability to turn off/on groupings of speech commands.
Versions
Version | Release date | Operating Systems Supported |
---|---|---|
1.0 | May 2007 | XP / XP Pro, Vista |
1.1.1 | June 2008 | XP / XP Pro, Vista |
2.0.0 | May 2010 | XP / XP Pro, Vista, Windows 7 |
2.0.2 | January 2011 | XP / XP Pro, Vista, Windows 7 |
See also
References
- ^ http://www.tazti.com/
- ^ http://www.tazti.com/downloads.php
- ^ http://www.tazti.com/products.html
- ^ http://thegamefanatics.com/tazti-brings-voice-recognition-to-pc-games/
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sviNw4GUk6E
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyH7eiMJIA
- ^ http://www.robocommunity.com/forum/thread/16820/Possible-voice-recognition-software-for-RS-Media/
- ^ http://www.popsci.com/gear-%2526-gadgets/article/2008-09/hands-free-computing