Apple appears to be cooking a new and exciting feature for iPhone, it’s call speech to text. Imaging having to do away with sometimes annoying keyboard and just spell a text message, email or whatever text you want and your iPhone will do the rest. Cool huh?

According to a recent patent, Apple is working on speech to text technology for it iPhone and iPod devices.
The Baltimore Sun included the following diagram of how the text to speech system would work when wording an email.

From the patent filing

The speech recognition module can analyze the speech data to derive text data, the text data comprising sequence information associated with each of a plurality of words associated with the speech data. The text composition module can receive the text data and combine the text data with the non-speech data based upon the sequence information. The text composition module can thereby produce combined text data derived from the text data and the non-speech data. The interface can transmit the combined text data to the mobile device for presentation to a user of the mobile device.

Microsoft is looking to target iPhone users to boost it Bing search engine. The aim is allow developers to access Bing results using Microsoft API.

On Thursday, Microsoft announced an SDK built to allow iPhone app developers to enable their apps to access Bing search engine. Using the SDK developers will be able to retrieve images, videos and news from Bing results.

Currently, Google is the default search engine on iPhone Safari. Users can change this default to Yahoo. Bing can only be accessed using the traditional way by typing the URL and then the query.

Microsoft SDK dubbed Cocoa Touch will allow developers to include Bing search results in Mac systems too.

Apple has realsed a new Beta of of the iPhone 3.1 OS along with software development kit. This released is intended to improve the functionality of iPhone 3GS Video, MMS Messaging and speech recognition.

According to Endgadget Mobile, iPhone 3.1 beta lets iPhone 3GS users save a copy of video clips taken with the device so that portions aren’t lost when editing video. (more…)

Apple appears to have waited for Steve Jobs to come back from his medical leave to announce that the company has sold over 1 million iPhone on the first weekend of it launch. Apple has already expected high demand for the new iPhone 3GS, but the number of sales appears to have broken the records of the first iPhone. In Apple’s press release: (more…)

Apple anticipate that iPhone 3G S will be another very popular hit, since the company has sold out it pre-order units on 19 June, the day of the iPhone 3GS launch.

AT&T is said to have an exclusive amount of iPhone devices set aside by Apple for it customers. The new tariffs has been an area of debate, but that is not seeing to be slowing demand for popular gadget freaks. (more…)

No Steve Jobs this time, but observers agree that Phil Schiller seems to be doing a good job introducing new Apple gear at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2009. Most of interest to us is the announcement of iPhone 3GS. The S stands for Speed. So what does the new iPhone bring to the table? (more…)

Cheaper version of iPhone?

Apple is expected to show a new and cheaper version of iPhone at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 or WWDC, the Financial Times reported. It’s not yet clear if it’s the $99 or $149 version, but there are rumours of 4GB iPhone model with cheaper tariff. These will likely be announced only for AT&T in the US, with plans to follow for Europe and other markets. Monday should be a big day for iPhoners.

iPhone Facing Camera

A new spy picture has been released by the guys at Spaziocellulare.com showing the iPhone with a facing camera. The same design available for many phones offering video calling. If this holds true, it will confirm the rumours circulating the net in the last few months that the next iPhone will have video version of iChat. (more…)