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January 2007 - Posts

Windows Speech Recognition: Listening to users is the key at Microsoft

Recently the Accessibility team approached me and asked if I'd be interested in providing an essay for their Accessibility Perspectives web site portal. In their own words: "Accessibility Perspectives are a series of essay articles that profile some of Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:49 PM by robch | 1 Comments

David Pogue says (on NPR) his favorite feature in Vista is Windows Speech Recognition

I know David Pogue really likes Windows Speech Recognition, but today he actually called it out as his favorite feature in Windows Vista this morning on NPR. Here's exactly what he had to say : Interviewer: "So, what's your favorite feature?" David Pogue: Read More...
Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 9:06 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Experiencing a "Wow" moment with Windows Speech Recognition

Reading customer comments on Windows Vista's Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) is always fun. I love to hear the positive ... and the negative (after all we have to learn what our customers want). This weekend, I saw a post by a new Vista user named Marc. Read More...
Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 7:26 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Chicago Sun-Times says: Windows Speech Recognition is one of "Vista's true superstar features"

Today, Andy Ihnatko published an article on Vista called " Vista brightens Windows " in the Chicago Sun-Times . In it, he goes over a lot of the features in Vista, and why they all combined make a compelling upgrade for users. He says: "one of Vista's Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:36 PM by robch | 1 Comments

Using Windows Speech Recognition for temporary disabilities

One of the very interesting uses of Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) with Windows Vista will probably be when people start to use it when they have some immediate need. For example, I've blogged before about Larry Magid (who's a reporter) breaking his Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:31 AM by robch | 1 Comments

speak4CAD is preparing a Vista version of their software

I've blogged about speak4CAD before , but apparently they're making a new version that is compatible with Windows Speech Recognition and Windows Vista. Plus, they appear to have expanded what they've done to also include products for other CAD packages, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:23 AM by robch | 0 Comments
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Windows Vista Accessibility Tutorials -- including Windows Speech Recognition

In addition to the demos recently put up on the Accessiblity web site , there are also tutorials that go thru the various accessibility features in Windows Vista. You can get to those tutorials here . For Windows Speech Recognition, there are 6 different Read More...
Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 7:10 AM by robch | 0 Comments
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Windows Speech Recognition Demo now online on Microsoft.com

As part of the overall effort to document all the features of Windows Vista that might be useful to people with disabilities, the Accessibility group here at Microsoft just went live with a number of demos on their Accessibility web site . Windows Speech Read More...
Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 7:03 AM by robch | 1 Comments
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Are you a Mac user? You can still try Windows Speech Recognition

I know there are some people out there that prefer the Mac to the PC. And I know many of them that have tried the Apple built speech recognition features wish they could do more with their Mac. Now they can ... Sort of ... Parallels just came out with Read More...
Posted Friday, January 19, 2007 6:00 AM by robch | 0 Comments
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Rob Sinclair featured in IEEE Spectrum

Rob Sinclair, Director of the Accessibility Technology Group, is a great guy that I get to work with a lot. He has a ton of passion for end users, and really strives to make computers usable by all people, regardless of their abilities or skills. It was Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:40 PM by robch | 0 Comments

100 Best Companies to Work For, 2007 edition: Microsoft's on the list

Fortune Magazine's out again with its annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For , and not surprisingly, Microsoft is on the list again this year. Microsoft came in #50 overall (Google came in #1 ), but Microsoft ranked #14 in the Best Compensation Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 8:18 AM by robch | 2 Comments

Paul Thurrott's SuperSite Windows Vista Review of Windows Speech Recognition

As I'm sure most of you probably already know, Paul Thurrott runs a really cool website, called Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows . It's a great place to go for information on Windows. He's been working on a review of Windows Vista for quite some Read More...
Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 11:00 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Window Clippings 1.2 by Kenny Kerr

Most of the time I blog about Windows Speech related things, but today I found a really neat utility written by Kenny Kerr I just have to share. It's called Window Clippings . It makes capturing screen shots of Windows applications much easier than the Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:37 AM by robch | 1 Comments

WSR's in David Pogue's Top 10 list

David Pogue published his annual Top 10 list again this year in the NY Times . In it, Microsoft got 2 of the 10 nods. The first nod was for the wireless song transfer features of the Zune (something the whole music industry has pointed out was an innovative, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:36 AM by robch | 1 Comments
 
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