Jen's WebLog

Better late than never, eh? Now that there are more speech bloggers out there, I should probably tell you who I am. My name is Jen, obviously, and I've been working in speech here at Microsoft for about the past three years. My primary focus is everything...

http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EYVCHTVEF1PQKQSNDBCCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=59200094 CEOs pushing healthcare technology- speech, handwriting & Tablet seem like natural extensions to aid the healthcare community.

I was pointed to this article that talks about using AIM for conversations between hearing-imparied and non-hearing imparied individuals. This allows the two parties to communicate without the use of TTY terminal. Still, there is a call center transcribing...

So, I'm a linguist at heart. Give me a sentence and I'll give you a syntactic and/or sematic breakdown for your viewing pleasure. So, Fil sent around this article today and now I'm excited about linguistic search engines and corpora and everything. I...

IBM has announced that they are releasing 500 of their patents to the open development community. Speech related ones are below: US6199043 Conversation management in speech recognition interfaces US5649060 Automatic indexing and aligning of audio and...

I ran across this aricle today: http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160755 about the British Computing Society encouraging UK researchers to investigate implementing more human-like behavior in computers. The article talks some about cognitive processing, invesitgating...

Dear readers, today I have not one, but two articles for you. I don't have much time to comment, but I'll try soon: http://www.physorg.com/news2731.html : Multi-lingual speech based technology http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160633 : : IBM's more natural...

A few weeks ago, I was asked to speak about what blogging means to me at Microsoft. It's part of a women's luncheon for my division and the overall goal is to tell people about different types of community involvement. It reminded me of how long it has...

Interesting article on using common sense information in speech recognition: http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/032305/Common_sense_boosts_speech_software_032305.html Users appear to like their experience better if the result (even if incorrect) is semantically...