Welcome to my MSDN Blog. I am a Group Program Manager in the Microsoft Speech and Natural Language group (SNL), so much of what you’ll see here is relevant to anyone interested in speech recognition and Microsoft’s products that recognize speech...

One of these days I'm going to write up a list of all the speech-related sites and newsgroups I know about, but there is one that has been producing interesting traffic and bears some mention because it's focused just on Microsoft speech and it's completely...

Do you enjoy working closely with world-class researchers to ship products at the cutting edge of computer science? My group, the Speech Components Group (in the Speech Products Group) is looking for a highly-technical program manager to drive forward...

Here's an idea for an application of speech technology: voice control in police cruisers. http://www.project54.unh.edu/

One of our developers attended last week's VOIP Developer Conference in San Jose and came back with some observations about consequences to speech: The move to VOIP is driven by functionality, not cost. VOIP is taking off because there are great new things...

There are a number of resources available at http://www.microsoft.com/speech to people who want to learn about speech application development, but if you'd prefer to participate in a webcast, MSDN is sponsoring this one: Quick and Easy Professional...

From an email I got today about Harvard Business School Professor and author of the The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution Clayton Christensen and his "competing against non-consumption" thesis. One example Clayton gives is Sony and...

We've been hearing reports of people who find Voice Command to be very slow after using it for a while on their PocketPCs. PDAPhoneHome posted a workaround, but I'm told that is unnecessary now that v1.01 has been released. Anyone who purchased V1.0 can...

I just got back from a wonderful two-week vacation visiting relatives in Maine and what do I see? A wonderful how-to article on how to use multimodal speech with Speech Server and Pocket IE. Casey Chesnut is one of our most visible power users.