Rob's Rhapsody

Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been demonstrating various features of the new speech platform included in Windows Phone 8.0. So far, we’ve covered the following topic areas: Start Speech Enabling your apps! … where I consolidated a bunch of resources...

In today’s post, we’re going to dig into a very useful feature of the Windows Phone 8.0 speech platform, specifically how to use wildcards with the VoiceCommandService. As those of you following along already know, in our first post , we built a WP8 speech...

Today, I ’m going to show you how to extend the app we built in yesterday’s post , using something we call Phrase Lists. Using a Phrase List, we’ll be able to let users of our “Search On” application “Search on” 15 more sites, not just search on Amazon...

In today's post, I'm going to show you how to use the three different parts of the speech platform on Windows Phone 8.0: Voice Commands, Speech Recognition, and Speech Synthesis. To do that, we're going to build an actual application, that has real value...

It’s time to start speech enabling your Windows Phone applications, developers! In today’s post, I’ll kick things off by consolidating and linking to a bunch of different resources that you can use to get started. I’ll also...

Windows Phone 8 is almost here!! Joe Belfiore introduced Windows Phone 8 to the world in June, 2012. Kevin Gallo summarized what’s new for developers , just a week later. The new Windows Phone Dev Center came online in August. The Windows Phone 8 SDK...

Here at Microsoft we've been busy over the last year adding cool new speech features to a bunch of Microsoft platforms and applications. You've undoubtedly heard about at least one of these recently (unless of course you live under a rock :-])... One...

Happy 2010! I talked about what we’ve all been up to in 2009 in the Speech group on the Speech Team blog the other day… Focusing across the 3 screens and a cloud... I also thought it’d be interesting to see the demo/video I put together on...

Microsoft's Bing for iPhone went live yesterday, and is now available in the iPhone application store. You can read more about it here on PC World.com. I downloaded the app last night on my wife's iPhone and it's working great! The Speech team here at...

Mary-Jo Foley posted an article on her blog on ZDNet yesterday talking about how the RTM buzz for Microsoft Exchange 2010 is growing louder. It's an interesting read . The Speech team has been busy at work supporting the Exchange team for quite a while...

I just read a pretty cool post by Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett from HuddledMasses.org where he shows his readers how to use a PowerShell script he wrote to invoke other PowerShell scripts using Speech Recognition. Great idea, Joel. I like it! Check it out here...

One of the cooler parts of my jobs is interacting with customers and partners. One such opportunity I have is being on the board of AVIOS, The Applied Voice Input and Output Society. As a member of AVIOS, I've also been involved behind the scenes in the...

Last night, as 12:01am, Tellme announced their Spring 09 upgrades to their underlying speech platform. You can read all about it here on Tellme.com . There have been a ton of news articles about it since the announcement, but I liked what Tech Crunch...

I've been reading a lot of blog posts lately about bloggers using Speech Recognition technology themselves to write their blog articles. Because some bloggers get paid per post that they create, and some others even get paid per character that they write...

This morning I read a blog entry on Wired about a new application coming out from a guy named Scott Forman called ShutterVoice . It sounds pretty cool! Basically, ShutterVoice promises to bring hands-free photography to photographers that are using Cannon...

A reader recently wrote to us here at Microsoft, and asked us if there was a way to disable the built in command for "Cap [textInDocument]". Sometimes, for some people, this command can be recognized a little too easily if you're actually trying...

I've got two microphones that I use most of the time. An Andrea SoundMAX SuperBeam 2 element array-microphone from Andrea Electronics An xTag wireless microphone from RevoLabs I really love both of them, and I use them interchangeably throughout the day...

It’s official. Microsoft’s audio indexing solution (born out of Microsoft Research) is now online as a part of a Washington State pilot program aimed at making audio recordings from 1973 to present available to the public, with an easy to use search interface...

Many of you know that we've been working on our Windows Speech Recognition Macros utility for a while now. We released the first technical preview in April, a refresh in August/September, and we're continuing to refine the technology that will ultimately...

If you want to start developing on Speech Server 2007, you should probably start off using the Speech Server 2007 Developer Edition – a free, yet fully functional version of the retail product. You can download it here . Please be sure to follow...

I haven't tried it out personally, but over on the Habitually Good blog, Vaibhav says that Google's new Chrome browser doesn't work with Windows Speech Recognition in Windows Vista. That's too bad... Both IE7, IE8 Beta 2, and Firefox work great with it...

One of the joys of being a parent is helping them learn. I'm very lucky, in that regard, because my kids love learning. In fact, my son Zac really loves Math. He gets that from both his Mom and his Dad. So, when he was a little guy, I made a Word Macro...

Here's an interesting article on JetBlue's choice of using Microsoft's speech technology over that of Nuance. I especially like this tag line: "Redmond shakes up the voice-recognition space by offering more reliable software for less" The author...

Every year in the Fall it's time for me to check out what's new on TV , and decide what, if anything, I'm going to start watching. This year's no different... Ah... Well ... It was actually different. This year, just a couple weeks ago, my Tivo completely...

I've always wanted a good place to upload all my speech macros that I talk about on my Macro of the Day posts. And now ... Finally. I have a home for them. Check it out here . Neat...