John Lawrence (MSFT)

It's been a long time since I posted. My excuse is that we've been in crunch mode working hard to get everything ready for the launch this week. At one point in the product cycle I had mistakenly thought that things were well under control and that...

Sadly I don't have much time right now to comment on these, but hopefully they'll make interesting reading. TechWeb, 2.20.04 "Microsoft Sets Launch Date for Speech Server" http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040220S0004 eWEEK, 02.19.04...

More coverage of the SpeechTek/VSLive launch event at eWeek .

I've got an open position I'm trying to fill for a reasonably experienced developer - so what better way to let people know than through my blog! Here's a snippet describing what I'm looking for: The Speech SDK team is looking for an experienced...

Oliver Drobnik asked Bill about speech in Longhorn, and received a response covering what we're doing with the Microsoft Speech Server, Longhorn and beyond. This is a few days old now, but I wanted to include a reference to it here because of the relevance...

Until recently Michael was one of the most prolific testers that the Speech group ever had (and consequently the bane of developers' lives...). Unfortunately for us, he recently moved to the Media Center group where he is playing with lots of cool toys...

Someone on the marketing team just drew my attention to this page. http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/vslive/2004/sf/keynotes.asp “Join Bill Gates for the First of 4 Dynamic Keynotes at VSLive! as he presents Microsoft’s overall...

The speech enabled versions of the ASP.NET Starter kits have just been updated for Beta 4 of the SDK. Here are the links: Speech-Enabled ASP.NET Commerce Starter Kit Speech-Enabled Fitch and Mather Stocks Application

My old blog at http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/johnlawr isn't going to be updated any more, so for foreseeable future you'll find my blog entries here at ASP.Net. For new readers - a brief introduction. I'm a Dev Lead on the Microsoft Speech Application...

A key milestone for any Microsoft project is when it reaches “dogfood” status - which means that internally we're starting to use the product for real internal business use (in other words, we're “eating our own dogfood” - it took...

You might have heard that GotDotNet.com blogs are soon to be no more, so many of us are migrating to http://weblogs.asp.net  - at least for the time being. So, for the continuation of this blog please visit: http://weblogs.asp.net/johnlawr...

The speech enabled versions of the ASP.NET Starter kits have just been updated for Beta 4 of the SDK. Here are the links: Speech-Enabled ASP.NET Commerce Starter Kit Speech-Enabled Fitch and Mather Stocks Application  

I should really have checked this before my last blog, but I went to the www.microsoft.com/speech site and couldn't see a link to any download pages, so I foolishly assumed that it wasn't yet available. A further quick search proved me wrong, so...

We just announced that Beta 4 of the Speech Application SDK and beta 2 of the Microsoft Speech Server are ready. I have to apologise that I don't yet know when Beta 4 will be available for public download, although I suspect that members...

Jon Nicponski's session " ASP.NET: Speech-Enabling ASP.NET Applications with the New Microsoft Speech Server " is now online. This includes streaming video of a Speech Application SDK demo. It's a pretty good session - especially when you consider...

Jason Nadal is working on a Speech2Blog application using the Longhorn speech API to take dictation and post it to a blog. Now if the blog page was navigable with the Speech Application SDK speech controls, that would be really cool.

One of the cool things I've just found on the Intervoice developer portal site is a sample application they have recently put up. More details (including the phone number to call) are at http://developer.intervoice.com/salt/locatorapp.html...

A while ago I mentioned  that Intervoice were launching a portal for developers working on applications with the Microsoft Speech Application SDK, and SALT applications in general. The site is now live at http://developer.intervoice.com . ...

Microsoft Voice Command for Pocket PC is now available for download at Handango. It supports speech control of your Windows Mobile 2003 device to look up contacts, get calendar information and even control Windows Media Player...

Speech SDK Chat on MSDN on November 10th...

I just came across this article by Jon Arking which does a pretty good job of describing what's in the Speech Application SDK Beta 3, and there is some good discussion about how Speech might be able to be incorporated into existing solutions (and why...

A very amusing message went on our newsgroup today. One of our Test Leads, Tom Faber, had been trying to help a customer work through some issues with the SpeechControls. Unfortunately Tom didn't follow up on one of the customer's replies, and so this...

Finally I've managed to fill the open position on my team - I'm extremely happy :-) It seems like it has been open for a ridiculously long time, and I had been starting to despair. If positions stay open for too long, there is always a risk that...

Kai-Ful Lee on the future of talking computers...

Speech Server makes internal and external headlines...