While I was vacationing last week in Canada, I apparently missed one of the best Seattle events: IgniteSeattle . Fortunately, Lesley from our team was there and wrote up a nice summary of what I missed. There were presentations about http://www.theworldisnotflat...

ISLE (Interative Spoken Language Education) has a demo of software that uses speech recognition to help non-native speakers see how good their pronunciation is. I haven't tried it (it looks to be targeted toward Italian and German learners of English...

I mentioned the free NYTimes Reader and how it uses the text-to-speech features. Well if you prefer a non-American slant to the news, now you can try the Daily Mail version. (via Mark Johnston)

Looks like I'll have to run this set of instructions to get my PocketPC to work with the new daylight savings time rules. ( M3's blog is a good source of info about all the DST implications on Microsoft products.)

Next week I'm taking my family on a short vacation to Big White , a ski place near Kelowna, about 6 hours drive from Seattle. (look at the exact location in 3D glory on local.live.com ). Besides the skis, of course, I'm packing my speech-powered Vista...

My team delivers bits to all the major groups at Microsoft, so in some ways it doesn't matter too much where we are in the organization. When I first joined a couple years ago, we were part of the Server/Tools business, last year we were in Office, and...

My previous message didn't link to the official security response: here it is . Meanwhile Rob posted some more details s about Vista SR and a "security feature".

Here's a new one to add to my podcast list: Kevin Lenzo, founder of Cepstral, speaks about Text to Speech . I follow IT Conversations podcasts, which I find to be a good source of quality discussions, so I'm looking forward to listening to this one on...

Much as I would love to tell you what I think about the obvious events in the news lately , there are a few things you'll never hear me bring up in this blog. Just like my mom taught me never to talk in public about politics, sex, or religion, I don't...