Here's a hilarious video clip made by the Unified Communications team to give an idea how new UC technologies (including speech) will make work life easier. Video: Unified Communications Fortunately I don't have a boss like the one on The Devil Wears...

I've been playing with Oddcast's Sitepal for the past few months. How do you like me? Click on my mouth and make sure your sound is turned on. It was very easy to set this up. The site has an online editor that lets me pick any of a zillion...

Marc asked me a question based on my recent post on how I use my headset instead of a phone. I just read your article about using your headset both as a telephone and speech recognition device. I agree with you, and I think more things will tend...

Bill Gates showed off lots of our technology at the CEO Summit yesterday. Read a transcript here , or watch the video online . Skip ahead about 20 minutes to watch the demos. That web cam conferencing part really works. I have been using it with our Portugal...

If you call my desk at work, this is the phone that will ring: Just announced today at WinHEC , it's one of a whole line of products from the Unified Communications devices team. It's plugged into my PC's USB jack and that's it. Look closely at the...

Chuck Oppermann isn't just a speech PM; he's also a pilot. Yesterday after work he asked if anybody wanted to go flying, so of course I said yes. Here's a quick video I made of our flight. You can see the Mariners-Yankees baseball game, the Space Needle...

Our in-house telephone switchboard is pretty nice, and Scoble compliments us by comparing it to the much more primitive one at Google. Incidentally, he doesn't point this out, but our switchboard is the same one currently shipping in Exchange 2007. So...

I won't go as far as some of the people Chris Pratley mentions , but I am definitely turning into a OneNote heavy user. I tried OneNote 2003 several years back and could never make a go of it -- it just seemed too clunky, too limited, more pain than it...

Take a look: after the Web 2.0 Expo , Webaware and News.com picked their top 5 Web 2.0 services from the conference: Tellme's downloadable 411 1 app was #1.

Right on schedule , the deal is done and now we have a bunch of new colleagues. If you believe that 80% of companies by 2010 will integrate their phone/comms infrastructure, this is a big win for the teams working on the core speech technology that I...

Speech people are always interesting and Ray Kurzweil is no different. The founder of one of the first commercial speech recognition companies, the guy who thinks the Singularity will happen in 2047, is never at loss for optimistic views of the future...

Here's my prediction: a few years from now, people will still complain about Microsoft software but they won't complain about security problems. Every single man, woman, and child in a Microsoft engineering group is forced to attend SDL (Security Development...