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Cool Developers STILL use Speech APIs
10 August 09 03:12 PM
My apologies that there have been no new posts on this blog for nearly a year.  Because my personal and professional lives have taken a new direction, my Microsoft blog will be closing. I highly recommend the Speech @ Microsoft blog for more up-to-date Read More...
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Our Users Are Leading Authorities
26 August 08 01:26 AM
Throughout my career at Microsoft, I've eagerly participated in mailing lists, newsgroups, and web forums to engage customers and learn more about their needs and foster direct communication. One of the better forums for speech recognition is run by Professor Read More...
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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...
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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...
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Display Context Menus Where The Cursor Is, Not Where the Mouse Is
06 September 07 01:39 PM
This is a little user interface rant of mine since I'm speech and keyboard-oriented. While editing text, when I say "Press Shift F Ten" or press the Application Key (to the right of the spacebar on Windows keyboards), I expect the context menu to appear Read More...
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The Desktop Is Not For Programs
04 September 07 01:11 AM
I'm constantly amazed that people think that putting shortcuts to programs on the desktop makes accessing that program "easier". For the second time in about a week, I've encountered people asking how to put shortcuts to programs on the desktop.  Read More...
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How NASA Can Help Microsoft
13 December 06 10:46 AM
On an internal blog at Microsoft, I came across a posting by a Corporate VP on some books he was going read while on vacation. One of the books was a autobiography of one of my hero's, Gene Kranz , who was Flight Director for several flights in Project Read More...
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Windows Speech Recognition Getting Some Respect
12 December 06 07:46 AM
When our new speech recognition for Windows Vista was demonstrated at the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting this past August, it went disastrously ( read about it at my personal blog , along with links to the video). As I said in that posting, I was Read More...
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Microsoft Speech API SDK
24 November 06 09:58 AM
The Speech API Software Developers Kit (SAPI SDK) contains the documentation, samples, and header and library files to create applications and utilities that use speech recognition and voice synthesis. In addition, the SAPI SDK can be used to create speech Read More...
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Internet Explorer, Screen Readers and Keyboard Access
07 November 06 02:53 PM
When I get around to posting a bio, you'll find out that I have a background in making technology accessibility to people with disabilities. I worked in this area for Windows 95 through Windows 2000 and Internet Explorer 2.0 through 4.01. With the recent Read More...
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Steve Wozniak at Microsoft
06 October 06 02:35 PM
One of the things I love about Microsoft is that you often get talk with, or listen to interesting people. Over the years, I got to shake hands with Steven Spielberg (wearing a Microsoft Bob baseball cap), Jay Leno ( Windows 95 launch ), Stevie Wonder Read More...
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InterSpeech 2006
22 September 06 01:45 AM
[This posting originally appeared on my personal blog . I'm copying all my speech related blogging to this new MSDN hosted blog. I'll be doing an introduction post soon.] I'm in Pittsburgh this week, attending the InterSpeech 2006 conference. Actually, Read More...
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