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"Microsoft will no longer be offering the Microsoft Recite Technology Preview as of December 31, 2009. 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."

If you have any data on Recite that you want to keep, you need to head over to the Recite blog for instructions on how to get your data into a format you can keep, because come New Year's Day, the service will be shut down. Hopefully the technology will come back in another product, but for now it is a shame it is going away.

"Microsoft Recite Technology Preview makes a busy mobile lifestyle easier by providing an easy method for remembering, searching, and retrieving mental notes and reminders from their Windows Mobile® device using the sound of their voice. Without navigating menus or tapping out text just speak your mental note to store it. Later, when you need the information just search and retrieve the remembrance using your voice."

Microsoft has taken voice notes to a new level. The tech preview of Recite is now available for devices running Windows Mobile 6.0 and higher. What sets it apart from the default Notes application is that you can not only store, but also search and retrieve notes using your voice. Check out the Recite blog to see just how this application works, or if you're not the reading type (which would be alarming, considering you made it this far through the post), why not download it and try it yourself?

Thanks to Geek.com for the image.