The Amazing Race: Mobile Text Messaging
28 October 2006 by axxxr Nuance Mobile Dictation Prevails in Speed Challenge Against World Champion Texter; Speech Solution Enters Messages in a Fraction of the Time Required for Standard Text Entry
Nuance Communications a leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that Nuance Mobile Dictation triumphed over the world champion texter in a challenge to determine the fastest and most accurate way to send text messages and email using mobile devices. “The Amazing Race: Mobile Text Messaging" took place at Conversations Mobile, a premier speech event for the mobile communications industry being held in Orlando this week. In a classic match-up of man vs. machine, Ben Cook, recently crowned the world champion of text messaging, raced against Nuance Mobile Dictation, the speech recognition technology that allows mobile phone users to create text messages using speech. Cook, a teen from Utah, holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest entry of a 160-character standardized message on a mobile device: “The razor toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human." Cook’s previous triple tap record for the standard message stood at 42.22 seconds. Nuance Mobile Dictation crushed the world record time, completing the message in 16.32 seconds. The complete Amazing Race competition featured four participants: Ben Cook using triple tap input; a former Tegic employee using T9 input; a proficient typist using a Blackberry device with a full QWERTY keyboard; and Nuance’s own staff member demonstrating Nuance Mobile Dictation. Contestants were scored based on the time required to complete the entry of the exact text messages, including appropriate spelling, punctuation and capitalization. In addition to the world record message, the contestants raced using messages average texters would send today, such as: “I’m on my way. I’ll be there in 30 minutes." Nuance easily claimed victory completing the message in 7.86 seconds, followed by a strong effort from Cook at 16.25 seconds. The contestants using the Blackberry and T9 devices came in a distant third and fourth at 30 seconds and 58 seconds. Nuance Mobile Dictation is an application built upon the Nuance Mobile Speech Platform announced earlier this week. It features “dictate anywhere" functionality on Windows Mobile and Symbian OSs, allowing users to dictate wherever they see a blinking cursor on their device screen. Nuance Mobile Dictation can also be ported to other OSs and applications. www.nuance.com
Comments On 29 Oct 01:21 neonismo wrote Yeah, I'd like to see you text that fast in a noisy environment! Hehe. On 28 Oct 22:33 prom1 wrote Saying a user took more than 16+ seconds to type that sentence using a BlackBerry, is not enough. WHICH BB did he use, the 8700/7290 like full qwerty or a SureType device like the 7130/Pearl devices?! On 28 Oct 21:18 Sid wrote Yeah! Hats-off to Ben! I use a BlackBerry 8700g and my speed for some-time has been around 60wpm. I am not sure how much time I'll take to type 160 characters. But I know someone who types at 90+ wpm on his BlackBerry. Can he beat Ben? Dunno! On 28 Oct 17:02 Residentevil wrote Kudos to Ben Cook for putting up such a fight. Those machines are just getting really good. |
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