I was talking to a customer recently, Greg Duncan, and one of the things that he came up was an idea for a utility to automatically turn the speech recognition engine's state off after a certain amount of idle "speech" time. A couple emails later,...

SpeechTEK is always an interesting convention for those that are interested in speech technologies. I often go to see what the industry at large is up to, and to see if I can meet some customers. This year, in addition to just attending, I'll also be...

I never thought I'd actually post something about Hillary Duff. It's not that I don't like her, or anything. It's just that I never really considered the fact that my professional life and Hillary Duff would cross. But yet ... Apparently, Hillary Duff...

Here's a question from a reader about the Dictation Everywhere feature in Windows Speech Recognition in Windows Vista: This feature is thus very important to me and my future as a PC user. I have found that in many form fields (such as the one...

The Vista Show is a podcast that broadcasts a weekly show in podcast format each week from thevistashow.com . This week Jack discusses Vista's Windows Speech Recognition. You can jump ahead to the 18 minute mark in the MP3 file . Jack says Windows...

I posted about a month ago that I was considering purchasing an electric scooter. I did, in fact, end up buying one. It's the one I blogged about before, the Go-Ped ESR 750 Sport. I've had the Go-Ped for a few weeks now, and it's great. I've been scooting...

Another good reivew of Windows Speech Recognition in Windows Vista: "If you have Windows Vista, even the Home Basic version, you already have one of the more powerful speech recognition systems available. Microsoft has invested many millions of...