By the end of this article, you’ll have created a simple Speech-to-Text application that records your voice, converts it into text and then displays that text on-screen.

Speech recognition technology has received some major improvements over the last decade. With advances in Artificial Intelligence, speech-to-text conversion is now easily accessible and accurate.

For ENCO Systems, the answer is “yes” with respect to a patent that specifically applies to providing automated captioning by using speech-to-text.

Skype is adding the ability for its users to get voicemail messages converted to text, and sent to a mobile phone via SMS.