Windows Phone 7 aims to beat Android, iPhone with speech recognition [Video]

Microsoft will use its Tellme cloud-based voice recognition software as part of a ‘natural user interface’ for controlling Windows Phone 7 handsets

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Hoping to leapfrog over Google and Apple’s successes in the smartphone market, Microsoft plans to use cloud-based speech recognition and natural language processing technology to offer user interface capabilities not found on the iPhone or Android devices.

“We believe speech is not a separate application. Rather it is an integral part of the user experience,” said Zig Serafin, Microsoft unified communications general manager, before an audience at the SpeechTEK 2010 conference, being held this week in New York.

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In order to boost Windows Phone 7’s capabilities for understanding a voice command and delivering the requested result, the company plans to tie in Windows Phone 7 handsets with the company’s Tellmecloud-based voice recognition and natural language processing service, said Serafin, in a subsequent interview with IDG News …