The feature means users can, for example, use their Android phone's camera to take a picture of a menu in a foreign language, then have the app translate the text into their own tongue.

The popular free note-taking and organizing software Evernote has added speech-recognition support to its app for phones running Google’s Android operating system.

You don't need to talk like a robot or an English language professor to control and dictate messages to your phone or computer. Here's how the speech-to-text software makers suggest you should speak.