Say2GO first limited beta has just been revealed. Say2GO is a new Internet messenger implementing several powerful patented innovations:
Firstly, it implements so-called near-real-time voice messaging: you record your voice message just like in push-to-talk, and then choose whether to send it over, or cancel it, or edit or schedule it for later sending (coming soon). Additional nice-to-have feature is: voice messages are now preserved in your messenger history!
Secondly, Say2GO smartly uses speech-to-text recognition capabilities of your Windows PC to seamlessly recognize your voice message into text. The recognized text is delivered and preserved in the history along with the original voice message. If you properly train your Windows STT engine, the accuracy can vary between 90% and 100% which allows, for the first time, textual search over past voice conversations!
Last but not least - Say2GO has a fairly unique, graphics-rich interface which differentiates it from any other messenger out there.
Give it a try - it's all free! And please leave us your feedback. Help build a new exiting messaging technology which can change how people communicate on the Internet - to better!
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I just downoaded the app and gave it a quick try. Cute interface, definitely differs from any other messenger intalled on my PC. I run XP so I was prompted to downoad speech SDK from MIcrosoft which I did but haven't yet installed (suppose I wouldn't have to do that on Vista). if it really can exchange and keep voice messages and also turn them into text - this might be really cool. Will post more fedback when I play with it a bit
Annoying interface like this one scarŅ people. "Near-real-time" feature doesn't make any sense to me either. Think before you say before you actually say it. Don't expect miracles from speech recognition - Microsoft SAPI doesn't do a good job in recognition and it won't help if you speak language other than English.
I use Vista and I keep my speech recognition profile well trained as I often use this feature to dictate into Word. so for me Say2go worked right away.. I only talked to own avatar, it recognized my voice into text almost instantly and without showing any extra Vista interface. i was also surprised how fast it actually transfers voice via Internet. Couldn't find Searh through the History function :(, also Message Scheduling funtion seems missing - something I could possibly use for personal reminders.
the interface actually looked quite nice even though it obviously needs a lot of polishing to make anyone (but teenagers) prefer it over the traditional text rosterso
I just discovered Say2GO does not allow copy-pasting a received voice message to other persons on my contact list. Will this be supported in the future?
It has yet to recognize a single word I say. All my messages simply are recorded. I have gone through one training session. I am just using the microphone built in to my laptop, but you would think that it should recognize something.
To anonymous: Absolutely, copy-pasting a voice message to other contacts on the list will probably appear already in the next beta release. Thanks for suggesting a feature! The entire point of publishing this early beta is to gather people's feedback on what they would like to see in Say2GO technology to make it really useful.
To Jim Babka: Alas, speech-to-text recognition technology, including its Microsoft implementation, has yet to mature a bit to match the accuracy seen in StarTrak)) For the time being, to get a really high speech recognition accuracy you'll need a good microphone kept about an inch from the corner of your mouth (ideally a headset keeping your mike in the right place at all times). You'll also need to re-train the recognizer once you get a good microphone.
The good news is that Microsoft keeps improving their Speech SDK, and Say2GO recognition accuracy will just keep getting better.
thats anice messenger really but the we need soft interface . and please disapear the emails from search more people dont like people look for their personal emails.
and i think if you make rooms like paltalk it make chat very famous.
OMG! I didn't use the speech part but just tried to type! Since the space bar is overloaded, and if you type at all quickly, every letter after touching the space bar is transposed with a space!
I never seen the sheets with my contacts on it. Don't know how to get tehm to appear, which is does magically every once in awhile. And most of the contacts have not selected an avatar, so i see a bunch of blank sheets waving around.
How do you i know that a message has been sent or even delivered, but not yet responded to?
It's way too easy to send a message to yourself! Seems like you'd want us to confirm that first, and, anyway, what would be the purpose?
After training the Microsoft speech recognition i still get the Say2Go message asking me if i want to.
Needs LOTS of work. Way too difficult to use at this point.
Hmmm, I use voice every day online, via my laptop builtin mic. 100s of buddies have no problem with it, but this gizmo does! . . . .
Ironic shame that one has to TYPE feedback for a VOICE application like this! If I could use VOICE here I'd give plenty more feedback.. but.. typing is for the birds!
2 anonymous: Stange, you shouldn't have encountered problems like that with typing. In fact, voice recording is activated by pressing and holding the space button ONLY if you hven't yet typed anything. As soon as you type the first character the push-to-talk function of space bar is disabled until you send the text message or cancel it.
Also, the messenger doesnt' really allow anyone create an account without selecting an avatar. There's some period of time during which you see an empty avatar for someone you \ve just added - that lasts until your party accepts your invitation. Upon acceptance, the person's avatar is transferred into your roster. Done this way to support uploading custom avatars such as own photos (coming very soon).
2 Eagle_Kiwi: Right, just for exchanging voice messages in Say2GO in push-to-talk manner, with added benefit of preserving them in your messenger's history, the built-in mic will do just fine. Speech recognition though is too sensitive to noise at present, therefore its accuracy critically degrades when using a built-in mic instead of a good headset. Hopefully, both hardware and MS Speech sdk will keep improving at present rapid pace so that in the near future Say2GO will be able to work with built-in microphones with sufficient recognition accuracy.
I'm wondering why such a strange and funny looking messenger has no smileys :-\ It looks like a big misunderstanding.
Interesting concept. The app obviously needs more than a couple things fixed. but you say it's a limited beta.. Still, it seems to deliver on its promise and does send voice messages quickly and even keeps them inthe history, even after i shut this gizmo down and then start it again - nice to have! i have yet to try speech recognition. does Microsoft support recognition of Spanish language?
I haven't tried say2go yet, but I can assure anyone reading this that if Say2go is using the Vista
7.x recognizer, (2) training sessions with a good headset, that has decent noise-canceling will render incredible acuracy.
If say2go is using the previous 6.1
Windows recognizer (that shipped w/ Office 2003) then prolly (3) training sessions will do the trick.
Using a "built-in" or "desktop" microphone will be a waste of time. In fact, any mic. other than a very, very good array, or a quality headset won't be much better.. it's all about the acoustic quality of the voice signal the recognizer gets.
Many of us are old enough to remember "GIGO"..
;-0
2 The Team: Thank you for your excellent insights and recommendations! In fact, Say2GO is specifically designed to use any version of speech recognizer installed on a given PC. You are absolutely right, if run on Vista with a couple of training sessions and a good microphone, Say2GO delivers VERY high accuracy.
Thats a pretty spiffy user interface. What did you guys use to create it?
No post for a year yet. Any updates?
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