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Do you find it difficult to hear Voice mails? Do not have a head
phone at office? Do you wish to convert the voice mail to text? So, your wish is going to be granted very soon 
From Techrepublic:
One indication that voice-recognition technology is getting hot is the recent Microsoft/Tellme deal. In March, Microsoft said it would buy privately held speech-recognition maker Tellme Networks in a deal believed to be in the range of $800 million. Tellme recently started testing a cell phone application that allows people to say out loud the information they are looking for and have data sent to their phone.
“Voice is still the killer application for any phone,” said Charles Golvin, an analyst with Forrester Research. “And it is underappreciated as an opportunity and underutilized for development of new services. Carriers can use voice applications to drive data-oriented experiences.”
So, now its all easy – with latest services like SimulScribe and SpinVox the voice message is converted to text message.. So, now if your boss has left u a voice mail regarding a client’s phone number, you no need to take the scribbling pad to note down the number, the latest services will do the job of converting them to text and it will be there in your inbox for ever.. Isnt it an amazing feature 
SimulScribe also allows users to save and listen to messages as a voice mail or a .wav file in an e-mail inbox. The company is already providing its voice to text service to Skype users. And it’s expected to announce a deal to provide the service to Vonage customers later this year.
SpinVox, which offers a similar service in Europe, announced recently that Cincinnati Bell will offer its Voice-to-Screen service that provides transcribed voice mail messages via SMS text messages and e-mail.
Last week, the company also announced a new mobile blogging service it calls Spin-my-Blog, which allows bloggers to instantly post spoken blog entries from anywhere. By simply using any phone to call a designated Spin-my-Blog phone number, bloggers are automatically connected to their blogs and their spoken entries are converted to text and posted on their blog sites live.
A company called CallWave also announced its voice-to-text service last week. Unlike SpinVox and SimulScribe, which provide direct transcriptions of voice-mail messages, CallWave only provides the gist of messages.
While analysts agree that a new wave of voice-recognition services is coming on the scene, some say the technology and business cases are still evolving. For one, accuracy of transcribed messages can still be an issue in some instances, said Roger Entner, a telecommunications analyst at Ovum Research.
Many of you might have also used Koders.. For those who are not aware of what koders are – Koders are a good platform to search codes in various languages and also based on license..
Now, Koders have come up with a new product called Koders Professional edition With the Pro Edition, individuals and small teams can build code search into their very own private developer networks.
Participation in the beta program, which includes a download of the newly-developed code search application, is free with registration at the Koders website:
http://www.koders.com/corp/products/pro/.
Interesting facts about Koders:
Koders.com Wins Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Award
CMP Technology announced the winners of the 17th annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards during the Awards Ceremony at last week’s Software Development West 2007 Conference and Expo. Koders.com took home the Productivity Award in the Websites and Developer Networks category
The Jolt Awards, sponsored by Dr. Dobb’s Journal, honor products that have redefined a genre or solved a problem that has previously eluded a solution. A complete list of the 17th annual Jolt Award winners is available at http://www.joltawards.com/2007.
EMC Developer Networks Adds CodeSearch
The EMC Developer Network (EDN) recently added a code search feature on their site per their March Newsletter. The Editor of the EDN site wrote about it in his regular column.
“Now I’m pleased to announce new functionality that we feel will significantly speed up finding relevant code hosted by EDN… taking a lot of the detective work out of the process”, said Alan Zenreich, Editor of the EMC Developer Network Site.
The code search functionality has indexed over 300,000 lines of code in the EDN already. Read more about what Alan has to say about the new code search feature or, better yet, you can give the new feature a spin for yourself at http://codesearch.developer.emc.com/
