Geoff Zweig, Patrick Nguyen, and a bunch of other guys from the MSR speech team just published a paper called " The Voice-Rate Dialog System for Consumer Ratings ", which unless you're a speech scientist you would probably never see, but look at the very...

Three years ago , when I moved to Redmond from Silicon Valley, I had no idea I would stay working on Speech Recognition technology for so long. My previous life had been spent on TV, at Microsoft and earlier at WebTV Networks, where I helped develop and...

Albert asked me this question: Hi Richard, nice blog. I liked the 'Devil' video. I have to give a pretty technical explanation taking speech recognition from linguistics through the technical side of how it works and point to a working demo. Any ideas...

Todd Bishop dug up an old copy of Omni magazine from 1987 that included an essay by Bill Gates predicting how the world would look in 20 years. For the most part his predictions were pretty good: flat panel screens everywhere, universal access to a huge...