Dragon is More Effective Speech-to-Text
A main intent behind developing technology has always been to make things faster and easier, and voice recognition is a great step forward in doing just that. Dragon is a product from Nuance, a leading provider of cutting-edge voice and gesture recognition technology, applying voice recognition to aid in many different functions. It gives you quick access to everything you want on the mobile web, and its revolutionary software not only hears but understands what you want more accurately and swiftly than previous versions of the technology. Consumers can download it to a variety of devices including phones, tablets and televisions. Dragon serves four functions in particular: speech-to-text, email, online search, and app access. Read more »
Often when you want to book a block of hotel rooms, the current experience can be difficult. Unlike buying a single room, which you can use an online service to do, you must call hotels directly, usually multiple times. During these calls someone may forget certain details, particularly since there is more to keep track of and there is a lot of negotiating involved. Simply put, it can be a frustrating experience overall. Fortunately, now there is Jetaport, an app designed to help people with these associated pains. It allows consumers to book hotel blocks in a much simpler way, without having to make all those difficult phone calls. Whether for a wedding, family reunion, corporate retreat, or a vacation with a group of friends, Jetaport simplifies the process for booking hotel blocks, ultimately solving one of the primary complications for consumers. 
For those who are looking for the best places to unwind in an unfamiliar place, hit can sometimes be difficult to find the right spots. Sites such as Yelp, Foursquare and OpenTable are useful to a point, but have limitations such as subjective content or a lack of contributors for a particular venue. Happinin is a new app offering users glimpses of bars, clubs and restaurants before they leave their home. It is an online platform where you can easily find the neighborhood you are in, figure out bars, nightclubs and lounges that are more to your personal taste, and have a transparent view to see if you want to be a part of it. 
Internet business is not just for big retailers or even limited to small companies, and many sites have been allowing people to sell and buy items as personal business ventures for years. Sites like Etsy and Fab even allow people to sell their own handcrafted items, and this is where BRIKA fits in. It combines the elements of personal craftsmanship and good design that are unique to each of those sites and others like it to help its vendors reach a larger, more discerning audience. What BRIKA does is provide the background for artisan goods. Like Etsy, it sources its wares from handicrafts makers and independent creators, but it emphasizes the story so that you know who made what you buy and why they want to do so in the first place. You know where the materials came from and how someone made them, meaning you connect more personally to the goods you purchase and their creators. 
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With the seemingly limitless information and media available online for anyone to see, parents know how difficult it can be to find quality content online that is safe for children. Along with all of the good content that is available, it can be quite a chore to wade through all of the mind-numbing games and inappropriate videos. Happly is an app from Daily Interactive, a company that produces digital apps and content as well as interactive products for large tech companies, that seeks to provide a solution. It is an app that focuses on developing more educational content for the iPad to help parents assuage some of their guilt over their kids’ ever-increasing screen time, but with some features that distinguish it from rivals. 
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Anyone who has ever had to raise money for any sort of a nonprofit, be it fundraising for school or any charity, is likely familiar with the feeling of anxiety that comes with having to ask others for money. It can be even more taxing for those who work at fundraising regularly as part of a nonprofit organization, particularly since it typically requires them to contact people with whom they have no personal connection. Wedid.it is a startup that works to utilize technology in order to deal with this very issue. It does so by offering a cloud software solution that allows nonprofits to run their own campaigns on their own websites. Not only that, it uses advanced analytics technology to measure the effectiveness of fundraising campaigns and even enable nonprofits to discover how to make the most money. 
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