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Windows Speech Recognition - ExactMatchOverPartialMatch

A user wrote in over the weekend with a question about how to automatically choose an item when prompted with our clarification user interface in Windows Speech Recognition (WSR). But ... Before I answer that question, I have to give a little background. Read More...
Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 7:57 AM by robch | 1 Comments

SpeechSaver -- kinda like a screen saver, but for speech recognition's listening state

I was talking to a customer recently, Greg Duncan, and one of the things that he came up was an idea for a utility to automatically turn the speech recognition engine's state off after a certain amount of idle "speech" time. A couple emails later, this Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 28, 2007 10:33 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Windows Speech Recognition in Vista: Dictation Everywhere

Here's a question from a reader about the Dictation Everywhere feature in Windows Speech Recognition in Windows Vista: This feature is thus very important to me and my future as a PC user. I have found that in many form fields (such as the one I'm using Read More...
Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 7:53 AM by robch | 3 Comments

Keeping speech grammars up-to-date

I've been having a good conversation with some guys that are working on making it easier to program by voice using Python. Their project is called " VoiceCode " and they've been working on it for quite some time. Currently it only supports Dragon NaturallySpeaking Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:24 AM by robch | 2 Comments

Installing additional speech recognizer languages...

Here's a question that I get from time to time... Q: How do I install speech recognition for a language other than the language Windows Vista is running in? A: By installing a language pack. Language packs are the Windows way of installing additional Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:57 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Transfering profiles programatically

Last week I wrote about how to transfer profiles using the Easy Transfer Wizard . That generated some email and some questions in the community about how to do this programmatically. That's a good question. But unfortunately, the answer isn't that straight Read More...
Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 9:28 PM by robch | 0 Comments

Windows Speech Recognition -- Where's the API documentation?!

I get a lot of email from customers every day. And some days I end up answering the same questions again and again. Don't get me wrong, I love hearing from customers, and I love enabling them to do great things with Microsoft products. The real problem Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:19 AM by robch | 3 Comments
 
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