I apologize for not keeping up my blogging as expected. I will continue my follow-up from the PDC demos shortly, but first I will answer some of the questions that were left in recent comments: Jay asked: " ... has Microsoft developed an application...

[I apologize for the delay in following up my promise to start blogging about my PDC demo.] At the PDC I demoed an speech-enabled RSS reader, built on top of the WPF SDK Viewer sample application. The first functionality I showed was a button that...

Thank you all for coming to our Friday lunch session at the PDC! The large attendance was a pleasant surprise given the timing of our session. Rob was first up. He demonstrated the new Speech User Experience in Windows Vista. Several times during his...

After a somewhat lengthy tech check last night (telephony demos always take a bit more time to setup with the A/V folks) we finally made it to the BAR (Big A.. Room) for the 'Ask the Experts' session. There were quite a few folks already waiting for us...

Rob and I are both in the speaker's work room at the PDC working on our demos. I can hear Rob talking to his computer - it's going to be a cool demo! My demo is pretty much set now (snippets and all). In the remaining time I'll work on my talking point...

I just turned on annonymous comments for my blog. Sorry for any inconvenience. - Philipp

I am very excited to have the opportunity to present our work over the last 2 years at the PDC with my co-worker Robert Brown . Unfortunately, our session is at noon on Friday, at a time when a lot of attendees will likely be on their way back to their...

Hi, my name is Philipp Schmid and I am the development lead for the speech APIs at Microsoft. My team delivers both the COM-based sapi.dll (which ships as part of the OS since Windows XP) and the new managed API, System.Speech (part of WinFX). I was one...