The text can then be passed to a speech synthesizer so it can be read aloud to the wearer. It’s funny to think about how advanced this project really is.

Big Blue is releasing code to the Apache and Eclipse Foundations, but users will need to buy a proprietary speech-recognition system to take advantage of this.

With AI technology expanding rapidly, there are a ton of text-to-speech software options available at various price points. These are our favorites.

IBM will release the code of various runtime and tool components to the open-source community to make it easier for developers to add speech-recognition capability to Web applications. The company ...