One of the impulses that got me into the speech and language processing business was the pure cool of working on artificial intelligence, and the lure of its holy grail the Turing Test. Even simple programs like Eliza (from decades before - I'm not that...

Does shouting at a speech recognition system make it work better? Here's a good example from the front lines - a frustrated human shouting Main menu! at the top of her voice (audio via her sister-in-law ). But I bet the recognizer didn't get it. To...

Busy time lately, what with shipping the Beta , preparing for the partner events (see some partners here and here ), and spec'ing the next round of tuning and reporting features... but let me not leave the blog dark a minute longer. You saw this from...

The long-awaited KB Articles have been published, and I've updated my original post with the links .