The Voiceitt speech recognition app allows people with speech and motor impairments to communicate with their own voice.

Voiceitt developed a speech recognition app that allows people with speech and motor impairments to communicate with their own voice.

Founded this year, the startup was also one of 9 companies participating in the Intel accelerator program in Tel Aviv.

Once, talking to machines was considered madness or science fiction. Then, speech recognition came along and made it commonplace. Now, Israeli robot Kip 1 is another step forward – it can understand the tone of the speaker's voice – and react accordingly.