Today Nuance the makers of the widely used Dragon speech recognition software for Windows, Mac systems, iOS and Android devices has announced that they have now added text-to-speech support for Windows Phone 7 within their SDK available through the NDEV Mobile developer program.

"Our renowned Dragon Mobile SDK is easy-to-integrate and accessible to anyone and everyone interested in enhancing their applications with speech-input and text-to-speech solutions.”

The developer program NDEV Mobile is broken into three tiers: Silver, Gold, and Emerald : NDEV Silver is the base level providing devs free access to Nuance’s text-to-speech and voice recognition technology : NDEV Gold service provides access to SSL data encryption and a web services interface through per-user or per-transaction pricing models : NDEV Eme ... Read more »

Nokia has just announced on the Nokia Blog, that the company has finally started shipping the new Nokia N9 smartphone, although it will only be available in certain countries.

We know that the Nokia N9 will only launch in certain countries, although Nokia has yet to confirm exactly which countries will get it, and considering they have just announced that it is headed to stores, you would think they would confirm in which countries it would be available, instead we get the following.

The Nokia N9 is available in three colours – black, cyan and magenta with 16GB and 64GB storage options to accommodate plenty of content and will be on sale in countries around the world.

So there we have it, the Nokia N9 is headed to stores in countries around the world, which countries? we have no idea, maybe Nokia will decide to let us know when it finally goes on sale.

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If you are looking forward to the launch of the new Assassin’s Creed Revelations game Ubisoft has released a new video to whet your appetite a little more it the run up to its launch in November.

Did Ezio perish at the hands of his Templar captors in Masyaf? Find out in this continuation of the Assassin’s Creed Revelations E3 trailer after the jump. Enjoy!

Assassin’s Creed Revelations will feature all three of the series’ major characters so far: Altair ibn La-Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Desmond Miles. It will take Ezio to Ottoman Constantinople in 1511 AD, consisting of four districts: Constantin, Beyazid, Imperial, and Galata; Cappadocia at the peak of the Ottoman Empire.

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations will be released on November 15 for PC, PS3&n ... Read more »

We heard recently that Sprint will soon be announcing the new HTC EVO Design 4G, and now the guys over at Pocket Now have got their hands on a press shot of the EVO Design 4G.

The HTC EVO Design 4G is reported to come with Android Gingerbread 2.3.3. and it will features a single core 1.2GHz processor, and will come with 768MB of RAM.

Other specifications on the HHTC EVO Design 4G include 4 inch qHD display, plus a front facing 1.3 megapixel camera for video chat and a rear facing  five megapixel camera which can record HD video in 1080p.

Source Pocket Now

We have been hearing quite a lot about the HTC Vigor over the last few weeks, and are hoping that HTC will unveil the European version which is rumored to be called the Droid Incredible HD at their press event on the 6th of October.

Now some more photos of the HTC Vigor have been leaked, and these ones show the Verizon branding,

and we are expecting some sort of announcement from Verizon shortly on this new Android smartphone

from HTC.

The photos confirm some of the specifications that we have previously heard, which include a dual core

1.5GHz processor and a 4.3 inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.

Some of our readers will remember the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro that was announced at MWC 2011 back in February, and now it looks like the Xperia Pro will be available in the UK from the 6th of October, for £269 SIM Free.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro features a 3.7 inch multi-touch touchscreen display with a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels, it will come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and features a single core 1GHz Qulacomm Snapdragon processor.

Other specifications on the Xperia Pro include an 8 megapixel camera with Somy’s Exmor R Sensor, 8GB of storage with a bundles microSD card, n FM radio, Bluetooth , WiFi and HDMI.

You can find out more information about the Xperia Pro over at Clove.

T-Mobile’s version of the extremely popular Samsung Galaxy S II is now official, and it comes with a range of impressive specifications which we heard about previously, these include a dual core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S3 processor and Android Gingerbread 2.3.5.

The T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II features a 4.52 inch Super AMOLED Plus display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, there is also 16GB of built in storage, which can be expanded via the microSD card slot which can take up to 32GB microSD cards.

Other specifications on the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II include two cameras, with a 2 megapixel front facing camera for video chat and a rear facing 8 megapixel camera with a built in flash which can record full HD video in 1080p.

There is also 1GB of RAM, 4G, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, a 1850 mAh battery, DLNA and HDMI out, it will be available from T-Mobile from the 1 ... Read more »

Rimac have this week unveiled their new electric supercar in the form of  Concept_One which is equipped with 1088 hp, 3,800 Nm of torque, and can cover 0-62 mph (100 km/h) in 2.8 seconds, with a top speed of 190 mph (305 km/h) and a 370 mile range (600 km).

The Rimac Concept_One has been designed by 23 year old Croatian automotive designer Mate Rimac and the first cars are expected to arrive in showrooms during 2013. But there will be only 88 of the Rimac Concept_One cars made so if your pockets are deep enough don’t delay. Watch the video after the jump explaining the electric technology that is inside this Rimac Concept_One supercar.

Rimac explains the technology behind their new Concept_One supercar:

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We have been hearing quite a bit about the new HTC Ruby over the last few weeks, now its official, it is called the HTC Amaze 4G and it will be available with mobile carrier T-Mobile in the US.

The HTC Amaze 4G features a dual core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and will come with Android Gingerbread 2.3.4 plus HTC’s custom user interface, HTC Sense 3.0.

The Amaze 4G featured a 4.3 inch qHD super LCD display with a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels, there is also an 8 megapixel camera with a built in flash which can record HD video in 1080p, plus a front facing 2 megapixel camera.

The HTC Amaze comes with 16GB of build in storage and a microSD card slot which can take up to 32GB cards, there is also 1GB of RAM and a 1730 mAh battery, plus HDMI out, NFC, GPS, an FM radio, WiFi and Bluetooth 3.0.

The HTC Amaze 4G will be available from T-Mobile from the 10th ... Read more »

While it may have recently laid claim to one of the industry’s most storied studios and revived one of the most cherished RPG series in existence, Bethesda will always be the house that Elder Scrolls built. As well as the house that built Elder Scrolls. And seeing how very few studios can manage a proper single-player RPG these days, much less a sweeping epic with fully explorable vistas that make your knees wobbly, there was no way we were going to miss a chance for some quality time with Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim at Eurogamer Expo.

Visually, it’s not the dramatic step up Oblivion was over Morrowind, but your breath will still catch when looking at that first horizon line. Even disregarding the occasional placeholder textures and errant animation, you can almost feel the crispness of the unfolding titular patch of Tamriel rub ag ... Read more »

Battlefield 3 is not a religious experience. But at times it can be spiritual. During the fifteen minutes we spent with it at Eurogamer Expo, there were perhaps five when we didn’t feel like we were a young, confused young man caught up in madness he hadn’t signed up for, but steeling himself to see it through and get the job done. Slightly unusual for your run of the mill Deathmatch game, that.

If there’s one axiom when it comes to FPS games, is that they use visual effects as either a blunt instrument or a back of the box bullet point generator. Most of the successful ones do both. Battlefield 3 felt, for that brief period, like a shooter that forgot itself and accidentally went subtly wonderful all of a sudden. We’re not sure what map we played, but we’re okay with that. The experience was much too well orchestrated to be limited to one map. We be ... Read more »

It was going to be incredibly hard to improve upon the towering achievement that was Mass Effect 2. Combat mechanics that sang, sharp level design, interesting side-quests that amounted to a lot more than the RPG default fetch or kill, astounding texture work, we were fairly certain not even Bioware could top themselves when we first picked up the controller to put the Mass Effect 3 demo through its paces at this year’s Eurogamer Expo.

Now, we can’t say whether they’ve succeeded, because that’s not the sort of thing fifteen minutes with a demo tells you. What we can tell you is that what we played featured none of the ballyhooed Earth locations seen in earlier trailers. In fact, the environment was so generic it might have been the Citadel Post Office. There wasn’t the slightest generic, however, about the ensuing fight with Cerberus shock troops to p ... Read more »