I went to SpeechTek in San Francisco t his week, but only for a day. Last year, SpeechTek was a humongous event for Microsoft, featuring Bill Gates as one of the keynote speakers and a big booth as we launched the new Microsoft Speech Server . This...

Normally, a subscription to Encarta costs $5/month (or $30/year), but a new arrangement with MSN Search lets you use it two hours for free when you search on MSN at http://search.msn.com. Try doing a search on Speech Recognition . Okay, nothing special...

Lee is a pretty typical new speech user: In a fit of wanting to type faster, I looked into the latest version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. After 30 mintues of googling, I've decided that speech recognition is still not ready for prime time. :- He...

Watch out! Robert Brown is another of our speech PMs who has a blog . Robert works on the Speech API, both the classic unmanaged one (SAPI) and the unmanaged System.Speech that we're doing for Longhorn. There's a lot to say about both of these, and...

Hussein sent me a link to an interesting article by David Pescovitz at TheFeature.com: " Are You Listening to Me? " Computer scientists at the Palo Alto Research Center, a subsidiary of Xerox Corporation, are developing software systems that analyze...

Scott Weinstein is wondering about speech recognition support in Avalon. We read your blog, Scott, as well as blogs from numerous other speech-interested people. (and I'm always interested in hearing from more people!) Tell us more about what you...

Mystery solved! I'm now convinced that Dictomail is a human and not some great new telephony-based dictation system: Here's the text I just entered (enunciated quickly, but clearly): Guido, It s me, Feliciano. I stuffed the body in the trunk of a maroon...