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Various things I have been up to

Those of you who follow my blog have probably noticed I haven't had much up here OCS or Speech Server related lately. The primary reason for this is I just moved to the OCS core team and I am ramping up on the infrastructure and product over there. Lately Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:37 AM by jcalev | 2 Comments

Writing globalized speech applications part III - Strategies for determining the language

When creating a multilingual application, one thing that is often overlooked is how to determine what language the user speaks. Most applications follow one of the following strategies. 1) The application already knows the language. With this strategy, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:13 AM by jcalev | 0 Comments

A sobering thought

It's funny how having kids can change your perspective on things. While perusing cnn.com I came across a story on the situation in Niger . I remember when I was younger the negative reactions I had when a commercial would appear showing starving children Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 23, 2005 8:00 AM by jcalev | 3 Comments
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Calculating balloon coverage

Recently one of our coworkers travelled back to India for a month to get married. Obviously a vacant office for a month was just too much to pass up so we decided to fill his office from floor to ceiling with balloons. The idea of the prank was to fill Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:27 AM by jcalev | 4 Comments
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Pet peeves about directory and file referencing

Since starting at Microsoft I have had to review a lot of code - both in code reviews and when debugging others' tests. Like most other people I have my pet peeves and nitty gritty details. For instance, instead of writing if (somevariable == null ) I Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:01 PM by jcalev | 4 Comments
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A slightly different way to solve systems of equations

I'm sure all of us remember solving systems of equations in high school. Back then I had the dreams of discovering a new branch of mathematics, earning the right to have some obscure function - or if I was lucky - a constant named after myself. Like most Read More...
Posted Monday, January 31, 2005 3:01 PM by jcalev | 0 Comments
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Introduction

This is my first run at blogging in general so please be patient as I get on track. I work on the Microsoft Speech Server team and my main focus here will be covering some of the cool things you can do with this product and possibly help where things Read More...
Posted Friday, September 10, 2004 5:34 PM by jcalev | 0 Comments
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