Speech and Text Coming To Microsoft Mango [windowsteamblog.com]

On a recent run around town with my wife to grab dinner and pick up one of the kids, a text message came in from my son. Not an unusual event in itself, but what made this message interesting is that my phone read it aloud to me — and I replied back with my voice.

Meet Voice-to-text, a new hands-free messaging feature coming this fall in Mango and one that’s quickly become a personal favorite. And after seeing it in action on my test phone on our drive, my wife looked at me and said, “I want that for my car.”