John Lawrence (MSFT)

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 9:10 AM

Web sites are failing visually impaired users - can the Speech Application SDK help?

The BBC has news of an interesting report: Websites 'failing' disabled users The key finding was that the group worst affected are those with visual impairments, and the article refers to the recent announcement that the British magazine New Statesman

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Filed under: Speech Application SDK, General Speech Stuff

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 4:42 PM

Lots of news coverage on the Microsoft Speech Server 2004 launch

Sadly I don't have much time right now to comment on these, but hopefully they'll make interesting reading. TechWeb, 2.20.04 "Microsoft Sets Launch Date for Speech Server" http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040220S0004 eWEEK, 02.19.04 "Microsoft Sets

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Filed under: Speech Application SDK, General Speech Stuff

Friday, November 21, 2003 1:22 PM

Jason Nadal is working on a Speech2Blog application

Jason Nadal is working on a Speech2Blog application using the Longhorn speech API to take dictation and post it to a blog. Now if the blog page was navigable with the Speech Application SDK speech controls, that would be really cool.

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Filed under: General Speech Stuff

Monday, November 03, 2003 5:54 PM

Microsoft PocketPC Voice Command

Microsoft Voice Command for Pocket PC is now available for download at Handango. It supports speech control of your Windows Mobile 2003 device to look up contacts, get calendar information and even control Windows Media Player

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Filed under: General Speech Stuff

Friday, September 26, 2003 12:22 PM