Look at some of these items in various Microsoft support articles:   http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=152697   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q131109   http://support.microsoft.com/?id=172653   (from http://jill...

If you tried a speech recognition system a few years ago and weren't impressed, try again. The technology keeps getting better, slowly but surely, as this chart shows  For many tasks, SR is already quite useful but the trend line shows how in not too...

There's a discussion over at http://msresearch.com about Blogs vs. Email .

You can find a lot of TTS-related articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base. One of the best overviews is: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=287120      Also, see this Powerpoint sample written by our testers.

K1 in our group passed around a pointer to this funny commercial from Kyocera, showing how not to do dictation on a device:   http://www.sliderstyle.com/video/tvspot_01.html   Everybody wants a phone that can do things like email dictation so...

We need some sample apps to include with the next version of SAPI, and today we had another brainstorming session to think up some good ideas.  Here are some of mine:   ESL : something for English as a Second Language students.  Transcribe the person...

Here's an article about all the ways to use VOIP: http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_issues&issue_id=16

I went to a presentation today by Dave Stevens, one of the devs in our group who has been doing a study on microphones.  He presented some results which showed:   Cheap stick microphones work pretty well in quiet environments but degrade rapidly...

People sometimes ask me about how they can get more information about the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI):   Here are some SAPI facts:   The latest released version is SAPI 5.1, freely downloadable from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...

Here's some VBA code you can add to a PowerPoint presentation. Copy/paste this to Notepad and save with the filename "speechmodule.cls" or download the file from here . Option Explicit Public fRunning As Boolean Public WithEvents App As Application Public...