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September 2005 - Posts

Dictation deletion commands

Continuing on my theme of diving deeper into dictation commands, today I’ll tell you all about the commands you can use to delete text from your documents: Here’s a recap of the dictation commands used to delete text: “Delete [ word or phrase in the document Read More...
Posted Friday, September 30, 2005 12:46 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Dictation Selection commands

In my previous post about Dictation commands, I listed a bunch of commands with little to no details on what they actually did. I'm going to go thru them, section by section, and describe them in more details. Today, I'm going to talk about the selection Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 4:38 PM by robch | 0 Comments
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Palm, Microsoft forge peace with handheld

A Palm Treo — running Windows Mobile 5.0. Yeah, baby!! I heard about this development a few months ago from some of my friends inside the Windows Mobile & Embedded Devices Group. I can hardly wait to get my hands on one to play with … Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 27, 2005 5:50 PM by robch | 0 Comments

Dictation commands in Windows Vista Speech Recognition

Finally, things are settling down a little bit here at work, and I can get back to blogging about features in Windows Vista Speech Recognition. Several readers asked about dictation, and about what commands would be available to facilitate dictating…If Read More...
Posted Monday, September 26, 2005 11:16 PM by robch | 1 Comments
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Car PC Hacks

If any of you are interested in getting a PC in your car, you should definitely check out a new book from O’Reilly: Car PC Hacks . I had to figure all this stuff out myself since I put my PC in before the book came out, but you don’t have Read More...
Posted Monday, September 26, 2005 10:13 PM by robch | 0 Comments

Running Windows Vista Speech Recognition in my car

I’ve had a Windows XP machine in my car for a little over a year now. Some people think putting a PC in a car is absolutely crazy. Well … Sometimes I think that too. But … It’s been up and running pretty reliably now for over Read More...
Posted Monday, September 26, 2005 10:12 PM by robch | 1 Comments

Company Meeting

Microsoft's Company Meeting was today -- and it was a special one at that. This year, Microsoft celebrated it's 30 year anniversary. Pretty amazing that Bill's dream of a computer on every desk and in every home is so close to be achieved... In addition Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 24, 2005 4:35 AM by robch | 1 Comments

Customized speech vocabularies in Windows Vista

Some of my blog readers have been wondering if they can use customized vocabularies in Windows Vista. Before I answer that, I should probably describe a little bit about how a speech recognizer works, so you can appreciate why someone might want to know Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 7:27 PM by robch | 0 Comments
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Speech at the PDC last week

It looks like Rob and Philipp’s session at the PDC was a success. Here are a couple blogs I found that discussed what attendees were able to see: Speech recognition and synthesis in Windows Vista posted on The OSNN PDC '05 Blog : In Robert's first Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 6:48 PM by robch | 0 Comments

Microsoft's not as bad as this article says

I just read this article today on businessweek.com. They try to make Microsoft out to be this really terrible place to work. I’ve been working at Microsoft for over 10 years, in many different groups. I’ve seen a lot of things in that time. Read More...
Posted Friday, September 16, 2005 10:39 PM by robch | 0 Comments

Philipp and Robert's talk at the PDC

Philipp and Robert from the speech group gave a talk today at the PDC on speech recognition. I can't wait to hear how it went! I'll be checking both of their blogs today to see ... You should too if you couldn't make it to the PDC this year... Read More...
Posted Friday, September 16, 2005 10:04 PM by robch | 0 Comments

Bill says speech is for commercial companies ... not the free software types

Here's another interview with Bill Gates. He's been busy lately. :-) In this one, Bill is discussing the benefits of commercial software and how that compares with free software. Bill is basically sayhing that the free software can't do some of the same Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:23 PM by robch | 0 Comments

Bill Gates on Speech Recognition

There's an interesting interview on zdnet from yesterday where Bill Gates talks about many things. Speech is one of them. Here's what he had to say: This morning, you were speaking about some of the tough problems that software hasn't solved--speech recognition, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:15 PM by robch | 0 Comments
 
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