Working the Spoken Word

(Tap-tap. Is this working? OK. Hh-hmm.) We have shipped the Speech Server 2007 Public Beta! It's available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4F4D3AA4-8223-406C-B74F-DB2DE928D8B2 Since Speech Server is now technically...

Continuing an irreverent dictionary of voicebot vocabulary: yourcallisimportanttous , cl. Obsequious attempt to make the caller feel better about a dud place in the cattle queue. Actually means the opposite. Often followed by pleasestayontheline...

Big time ! This kind of brainpower and expertise, on this kind of scale... the future is here. Welcome, Tellme!

Reading Nicholas Carr's dissection of the blogosphere this morning as "a vast, earth-engirdling digestive track, breaking down the news of the day into ever finer particles of meaning (and ever more concentrated toxins)" I am inspired to do my bit as...