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Texting while driving is a big no-no.  It is impossible for a driver to keep their eyes on the road while simultaneously reading and typing a text message.  Researchers hope to change that, by introducing voice recognition which converts the text to speech, and speech back to text.  This would allow a driver to hear the text message through their headset or speakers, and then respond by simply speaking.

Having done some work in the voice field, I can attest to the fact that voice recognition is quite challenging.  It is hard to get all aspects of the unique qualities, accents, and cadences of individual voices into a software program that can then transcribe the speech into text.  Still, the research is interesting.

• Ars Technica:  Researches hope to make texting by voice a safe alternative