Developers interested in using speech technologies in their applications have been downloading the Windows SDK, but not everyone has been able to find our sample code after installation. If you’ve installed the latest Windows SDK , you’ll find the speech...

Interesting new study on the effectiveness of speech-to-text technologies. Nice to see Microsoft beating Google Voice with the Exchange 2010 Voicemail Preview. Interestingly, I think users will see improvements in their experiences with Voicemail Preview...

Happy 2010, folks! The end of last year brought some very interesting developments in the speech space. Bing - We saw the introduction of Bing for mobile, a killer mobile search application that allows you to use your voice to search for what you want...

Check it out here ! Now you can go to one location on MSDN to get any docs you need for your speech application needs...

Tobin Coziahr, from Tellme, has been kind enough to write a post describing how you can use the Tellme VoiceXML studio environment to build prototype voice applications. Thanks Tobin! --- Tellme, a Microsoft subsidiary, has a fully featured...

It's an exciting time here in Redmond, as we're finally ready to release the CTP (Client Technical Preview) of the Windows Speech Recognition Profile tool (WSRProfile for short). WSRProfile allows you to backup and restore your speech profile. It's fast...

As we have for the past 2 years, Microsoft is once again proud to announce our sponsorship of the 2009-2010 AVIOS Speech Application Programming Contest. Last year, winners of the contest received some pretty cool prizes from Microsoft, like copies of...

Here’s a quick note to let you know that WSR Macros v1.0 is now officially available for download here . Notable new features: Improved UI for creating, editing, and signing WSR Macros New UI for creating/editing WSR Macros directly in XML...

Congratulations to the Response Point team for winning one of the InfoWorld 2009 Technology of the Year Awards! Microsoft overall won 4 out of 40 awards announced earlier this week: Response Point won Best Small Office VoIP System . Small Business Server...

I just posted this over on my blog , but I thought it was cool enough to put directly on the Speech team blog as well. -- It’s official. Microsoft’s audio indexing solution (born out of Microsoft Research) is now online as a part of a Washington State...

If you are a software developer wanting to incorporate speech recognition and voice output into your application, we have sample source code that can get you started. We have samples for the native Speech API (SAPI) and the managed System.Speech namespace...

I'm very pleased to announce that first Technical Preview of Windows Speech Recognition Macros is now available for immediate download on downloads.microsoft.com . The Windows Speech Recognition Macros tool (aka WSRMacros) extends the usefulness of...

We often get requests for lists of availiable speech commands in Vista applications. The challenge for most people is that when given these lists they can only rememeber a few commands for few applications. To address this challenge we employ “Say...

We periodically get asked where someone can download the SAPI 5.3 SDK. For SAPI 5.0 & 5.1, the SDK was a standalone download. It is now part of the platform SDK. So, all you need to do is go to http://msdn.microsoft.com and search for what you...

I get a lot of questions about dictation in Windows Speech Recognition for Vista. One of the most frequent questions is why dictation doesn't work in a particular application. The short answer is that dictation relies on a technology called Text Services...

Do you have a Windows Mobile phone? Do you ever find yourself looking for a phone number, or directions, or gas prices, or movie listings while you are on the go? Do you wish you could just speak your search queries, rather than fumble with...

In my earlier post about how to download and install SR languages for Vista, I somehow neglected to mention what languages are supported. Not surprisingly, we got some questions about this. Q: What languages is Windows Speech Recognition available...

This question came in to our SAPI5@microsoft.com alias today: Q: Can you please tell me where I can get Microsoft Speech API 5.3 appart from those versions packaged with Vista and .Net framework 3? A: This question and others like this could refer...

One common area for customer questions is languages. For example, this one came in to our listen@microsoft.com alias yesterday: Q: I live in Spain and have W. Vista in Spanish, and my voice recognition is in Spanish. How or where can I download...