Voice dictation on Pebble Time now open to third parties

The Pebble Time and its later successors garnered some decent fame over the last few weeks. Surely Pebble isn’t necessarily building the best looking round smartwatch, but we’ve got to hand it to the company for adding new features while sticking to most of its roots in this new line of smartwatches. Voice Dictation was one of those innovations, and today it gets an extra kick.As of today Pebble has announced that it is allowing third-party developers to add voice dictation to apps for the Pebble Time, Pebble Time ...

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Samsung wants to buy Nuance, the company that powers Siri

Many of you may not remember the old days of voice command, or even services like Dragon Dictation, which were quite famous years ago. All of these services came from a company called Nuance, which was merely a start-up back then, and which found its biggest break in 2011 by powering Siri. Surely Siri was already a service on its own, but it didn’t respond to you like it does today, and Nuance’s technology was the missing link to make Apple’s Siri what it is today, though things might get a tad difficult for Cupertino very soon.Reports have it that Nuance has been on sale ...

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