Rob's Rhapsody

Yesterday I had the day off. I went to the Woodland park Zoo with my son, Nicholas, with his summer camp. It was a blast. There was a bit of downtime around lunchtime, so I thought I'd check out the news. I was shocked when I read this headline on my...

As I posted yesterday, I got a chance to check out the machine that Shanen used for the Financial Analysts Meeting demo. I confirmed that it was just what I suspected: An audio gain issue. If you watch the video clip on MSN Video you can see in the...

Bill was in South Africa earlier this week. You might have heard about his "80%" comment already. :-) In that same speech , he also talked about Speech Recognition: "We are taking on very tough projects, like computer vision, computer speech recognition...

Karl Barksdale is an advocate for bettering our educational system in many ways here in the US. One such way is to improve Business Education in high schools. He just posted an interesting entry in his blog this week that talks about what the implications...

Its been quite a while since my last post. I'm sorry about that. My wife, Kris, and I just had our fourth little person, an 8 pound little boy we named Beckett. He's seven weeks old now. Crazy how time flies. :-)

Here's an interesting blog about wireless speech recognition. I know a couple of the guys at at Chameleon , and they're smart. They're embarking on something that could be revolutionary with wireless speech using Microsoft's speech technology. This is...

The folks at Nuance have been working on Dragon Naturally Speaking for a long time (well ... actually, they used to be at Scansoft, and before that it was L&H, and before that it was Dragon Systems, I think ... ). But, at any rate, this week they...

Larry, a long time Microsoft blogger, and key member of the audio team, speaks out about the root cause of the audio bug that impacted last week's Windows Vista Speech Recognition demo at the Financial Analysts Meeting... You can read about it here .