Microsoft to Kill Off Short-Lived Recite Project

Posted 10/01/2009 at 5:27am | by Paul Lilly

1

Comment

Print

After a short seven month run, Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on its Microsoft Recite application for Windows Mobile users, the company announced on Wednesday.

"Microsoft will no longer be offering the Microsoft Recite Technology Preview as of December 31, 2009," the Redmond company wrote in a blog post. "After this date you will no longer be able to access Microsoft Recite from your mobile phone. The Microsoft Recite Team thanks you for your valuable feedback on this product. The ability to capture notes and reminders is an area we are still focused on and we will continue to consider your feedback to build out these rich experiences in upcoming products."

Using voice search technology, Microsoft Recite makes it possible for Windows Mobile users to record notes and later look them up by speaking to the application. This might sound like speech recognition, but Microsoft Recite uses voice pattern matching and doesn't convert speech into text.

The app was first introduced in February of this year, but never made it past the development stage, and now never will.