Chris, at SpeechUp, posts about the recent award we won from Frost & Sullivan, who chose Microsoft Speech Server as their 2005 Enterprise Infrastructure Product of the Year. I didn't get a chance last week to write anything special about this, but...

Jon Udell, a columnist for Infowold is an all-around tech guy I respect, and he has this podcast of a discussion he had recently with Ron Owens of Intervoice, talking about Microsoft Speech Server, SALT, Scansoft, etc. Eleanor Kruszewski has a transcript...

I just tried out a very cool system from http://www.dictomail.com/ , using an interactive demo hosted by a company called Admiral Online. Their web site has an interactive demo that tells you to call a phone number, leave any message, and...

People are passing around the office an article in the latest edition of The Economist, called "Corpus Colossal", about issues linguists are having in using the Internet as a source for training and research data.  Obviously it's a big concern to us too...

Jen Anderson's new blog summarizes a list of the speech-related patents that IBM released recently. (Jen is in the MS Speech group with me, and it's great to see her blogging)

Scott Weinstein's .net blog has a post on how to do programming by voice. He gives a pointer to IdentifierCache , an experimental add-in for VS.Net.

Scoble links to Tom Mertens' blog, in which he discovers Voice Command. Frankly, I'm a little surprised Scoble hasn't already heard about VC. Everyone who uses it loves it, all the press has been positive, and it really works! We even have versions...

I just heard that the PBS show 'Do You Speak American? will air tonight at 8:00pm (PST). I don't know much about it, but apparently several MS people doing speech reco work were included in the filming, which happened in 2003.

Here's an interesting new search engine from MSR that uses clustering to help find related items: http://wsm.directtaps.net/