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October 2007 - Posts

Comparing Speech Recognition in Vista vs Apple OS X

I was reading news the other day on my Windows Mobile phone while I was waiting in line for lunch, and I read a review comparing Microsoft's Vista OS and Apple's latest incarnation of OS X, Leopard. It wasn't focused on any one specific area, just on Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 8:13 AM by robch | 4 Comments

Windows Live Search vs Google Maps Mobile

Since shipping the speech enabled version of Windows Live Search for Windows Mobile a couple weeks ago, it's been fun watching and listening to users, blogs, and the press discuss the new features in Live Search for Windows Mobile. Today, over at PocketNow.com Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:36 AM by robch | 1 Comments

What does Windows have that OS X doesn't? -- Full-featured voice recognition

I just saw a post by Brian Caulfield on Forbes.com asking the question, "What does Windows have that OS X doesn't?" His answer: "Full-featured voice recognition". In short, here's what he had to say : "A true Apple fanatic will tell you that everything Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 28, 2007 10:09 AM by robch | 4 Comments

Bill Gates talks about Speech Recognition -- again!

Bill Gates has always been a big advocate of Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis inside and outside Microsoft. I've also had the great honor and opportunity to talk with Bill many times about Speech Recognition. Ina Fried, from CNET News, just posted Read More...
Posted Friday, October 19, 2007 8:31 AM by robch | 5 Comments

How fast can you type? How fast can you speak?

I was reading Tim Long's recent post on Windows Vista Speech Recognition, and it piqued my curiosity. In his post, he took a typing test once by typing, and once using Windows Speech Recognition (WSR). His results made me wonder just how fast I am these Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:17 AM by robch | 1 Comments
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Live Search for Windows Mobile -- Now with Speech Recognition!!

The press release just went live. The web site is online . And the details are all spelled out . Here's what the press release has to say about Live Search: Live Search for Windows Mobile with voice input. The updated Live Search for Windows Mobile ® Read More...
Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 10:41 PM by robch | 22 Comments

Lifehack.org calls speech recognition in Windows Vista "pretty good"

From the article : "Voice recognition software has been around for a long time, but it’s only in the last few years that it has become accurate enough and simple enough to use with any regularity. It has also been rather expensive, with “basic” Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 1:27 PM by robch | 1 Comments
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Vista's Windows Speech Recognition has the "cool factor so characteristic of Apple products"

It's always fun to hear comments about what we're working so hard on here at Microsoft in the Speech group. Today, another interesting blog post hit my radar. You can read it for yourself here . Here's an excerpt: On a lark I decided to tinker with the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 03, 2007 2:30 PM by robch | 1 Comments
 
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