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June 2008 - Posts

Making a Speech macro Application Specific

A common question I get is, "Hey, Rob, How do I make a speech macro application specific?" I've posted a couple examples of that embedded in other more complex macros, but here's the simple version. To make a macro application specific, you'll Read More...
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 6:45 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Macro of the Day: Say what you want and get it! (inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)

Today's macro of the day is a cool trick involving another free tool from Microsoft called Search Commands. Search Commands helps you find commands, options, wizards and other cool stuff in Office 2007 applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). It's Read More...
Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 7:42 AM by robch | 4 Comments

Disney's "Innovention Dream Home": A look inside

I love Disneyland, and I love technology, so it's a no-brainer for me to absolutely love Disney's new " Innovention Dream Home ". Basically, it's a home of the future, as envisioned by Microsoft , HP , Life/ware , and Disneyland situated right Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:44 AM by robch | 3 Comments

Macro of the Day: Send Email to [OutlookContact]

Today's macro let's you say things like "Send email to Rob", or "Send email to Rob Chambers", and as long as I'm a contact in your Outlook Contacts, you can send me mail! It also allows you to say "Send email to Rob Chambers about Read More...
Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 7:32 AM by robch | 1 Comments

Macro of the day: Next Slide

Have you ever found yourself giving a presentation about speech recognition and wished you could simply advance from slide to slide using speech recognition? Well ... I have. I've been using this really cool microphone I got from eMicrophones, called Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:00 AM by robch | 3 Comments

Macro of the Day: Tell me the weather forecast for Redmond

Another good request for a macro came in the other day, this time from Brian (Thanks Brian). Here's what he wanted: A macro that can tell him the weather forecast. Once you install this macro, you'll be able to say things like "What is the weather Read More...
Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 1:26 PM by robch | 6 Comments
 
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