1- Does speech recognition or speech to text software work with Japanese, how successful is it.

2- Are there other audio books than novels, like books about science, history etc.

3- Where can I find informal Japanese text, are there any articles written in spoken real Japanese online?

4- Anybody tried the feedmejapanese website, does it have any advantages.

Thanks.

There may or may not (was in closed alpha, now the company's site's down?) be some video-to-text (speech-to-text) stuff with Youtube/Nicovideo for Japanese in the future: http://asiajin.com/blog/2009/10/17/enabl...potential/

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=4115