My long-time buddy Paul points me to a recent announcement that Honda is demoing a way to control a robot through brainwaves. At first you might think that's incredible, and really taking speech recognition to the next level. I'm skeptical, so Paul replied...

I spent the afternoon getting my Treo working the way I like it. I had been having a terrible time with ActiveSync over the past month and I finally decided to do something about it: I hard-reset the device and started over. Boy, I don’t know why I didn...

I've been using the 2007 Office pre-release versions for several months, and now that it's been released in Beta2, so can you. Download a free copy from the Office web site and try it out. I have it installed on most of my machines, including the TabletPC...

This is WinHEC week in Seattle, and here's what BillG had to say in his keynote speech: We're taking advantage of the incredible chip improvements that Intel and AMD and others bring up that allows us to be more ambitious in terms of what software...

The Speech & Natural Language PMs had a nice picnic on Friday afternoon. Here's a quick photo taken with my Treo700w. Here are a few of us standing next to the beach on Lake Sammamish.

I almost drove my car into our HR Chief, Lisa Brummel walking past our building yesterday morning. I was in a hurry and she was listening to her MP3 player, so she probably doesn't know how close I was. Anyway, it's a good thing I slowed in time, because...

Take a look at this quote in Bill's executive email today , sent during the CEO Summit [click for webcast]: In my first CEO Summit keynote speech in 1997, I looked ahead 10 years to a time when bandwidth would be vastly improved, the majority of adults...

CNET has a summary of the radiation levels for various cell phones, including PocketPC phones like my Treo 700w. For a phone to pass FCC certification, that phone's maximum SAR level must be less than 1.6W/kg (watts per kilogram). In Europe, the level...

Did you see that funny Saturday Night Live skit last Fall about the automated phone lady ? Well now there's a new one, this time with Antonio Banderas. Hillarious! I just looked through the NBC site to see if there's a legitimate copy someplace. Does...

Well I'm back from the Happiest Place on Earth. I guess that means I should be less happy now. But what's not to be happy about? Lots of cool things happened while I was gone: The Speech Server team finished their Beta . Lots of customers will be in...

Eric Iverson is running a site that finally mixes spoken and written language: http://pollyglotto.com asks you to submit a phrase in one of 11 different languages and it translates it for you. But the cool part is that it also uses TTS to speak the translation...