Sondra Ahlen is a Silicon Valley consultant who co-authored an interesting paper in the July/August Speech Technology magazine called " ¿ Bueno? Are You listening to Your Spanish Speakers ".  She notes how different an application can be when translated...

Read this report first-hand from Intel:   When Intel engineers tested the scalability of the Microsoft Speech Server* in a multi-server configuration incorporating Intel® Pentium® processors, Intel telephony boards, and Intel NetMerge® Call Manager...

A company in India is working on a mobile phone translation system according to this article in The Telegraph (Calcutta) :   The speech-to-speech translation technology is being jointly developed by C-DAC in association with a few professors from...

Here's a company that supplies TV and sports games listings to Outlook: http://www.calendar-updates.com/

This message was sent to the SALT forum :   I am sending you this e-mail to inform you about an application (UA-Chess, www.ics.forth.gr/uachess ) utilizing SALT that is freely available trough the web, in case you are interested in providing real...

Did you know that Microsoft publishes a whole bunch of free tools, gadgets, add-ins, etc. for Windows?  They're called PowerToys and you can download them from the Microsoft.com downloads site.   My favorites are the Font Tool (make a TrueType font...

Here's a company that does Google-like web searches and plays back the results using a text to speech system.  One of the cool things is that you don't need a TTS engine in your OS -- it synthesizes and then outputs using a Macromedia Flash control. ...

Microsoft Research Asia (which Technology Review calls " The World's Hottest Computer Lab ") does a lot of cool projects related to speech.  Check out their text to speech demo: https://research.microsoft.com/speech/tts/   (The English site appears...

Many years ago, when I worked in evangelism at Apple Computer, I was visited by an ex-Apple employee who wanted me to help promote his new startup company, which had an idea for a web-based email system he called Hotmail.  I looked at it but quickly dismissed...

MIT team guides airplane remotely using spoken English   "Aeronautics researchers at MIT have developed a manned-to-unmanned aircraft guidance system that allows a pilot in one plane to guide another unmanned airplane by speaking commands in English...

Jon Udell, a columnist I respect, who used to write for Byte among others, and now is at Infoworld, tried Dragon Naturally Speaking and loved it .   "The result was, by far, the best out-of-the-box experience I've ever had with this technology." ...

John Archer is a tester who made a very cool video of last week's lunar eclipse.  He did it all using Windows Movie Maker 2.