July 2008 - Posts

Enumerating TTS Engines using System.Speech.Synthesizer
30 July 08 02:48 PM

Here is a quick and dirty C# console application that will list out the installed TTS engines and associated properties.  Make sure you add System.Speech to your project's list of references. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using Read More...

Postedby Charles Oppermann | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Speech - APIs, Text to Speech, System.Speech

The "Mojave Experiment"
30 July 08 10:12 AM

Check out the "Mojave Experiment" , where Microsoft brought in people to show them a un-released version of Windows. Having been part of the Windows 95 team , and then shipped components in Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista, I'm used Read More...

Postedby Charles Oppermann | (Comments Off)    

Filed under: Microsoft, Windows

Where can I get the Microsoft Bob SDK?
28 July 08 01:32 PM

My friend and colleague Karin Meier is the person I work with when putting updated speech content into the Windows SDK. She recently blogged about some odd requests she's gotten for old software.  One of them was " where can I get the Microsoft Read More...

Postedby Charles Oppermann | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Microsoft, History