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Controlling your PC via PowerShell and Speech Recognition?

I just read a pretty cool post by Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett from HuddledMasses.org where he shows his readers how to use a PowerShell script he wrote to invoke other PowerShell scripts using Speech Recognition. Great idea, Joel. I like it! Check it out here Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 28, 2009 4:52 PM by robch | 0 Comments

Microsoft sponsors the 2009-2010 AVIOS Speech Application Programming Contest

One of the cooler parts of my jobs is interacting with customers and partners. One such opportunity I have is being on the board of AVIOS, The Applied Voice Input and Output Society. As a member of AVIOS, I've also been involved behind the scenes in the Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 7:52 AM by robch | 1 Comments

Cannon camera + EOS Utility + ShutterVoice = Hands-free photography?

This morning I read a blog entry on Wired about a new application coming out from a guy named Scott Forman called ShutterVoice . It sounds pretty cool! Basically, ShutterVoice promises to bring hands-free photography to photographers that are using Cannon Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 8:50 AM by robch | 0 Comments

A user authored guide to macros: WSRMacros: The User Guide

Many of you know that we've been working on our Windows Speech Recognition Macros utility for a while now. We released the first technical preview in April, a refresh in August/September, and we're continuing to refine the technology that will ultimately Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:23 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Google Chrome doesn't support Speech Recognition in Vista? IE and Firefox do... Hmmm...

I haven't tried it out personally, but over on the Habitually Good blog, Vaibhav says that Google's new Chrome browser doesn't work with Windows Speech Recognition in Windows Vista. That's too bad... Both IE7, IE8 Beta 2, and Firefox work great with it. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:56 AM by robch | 2 Comments

Say2Go awarded 1st Prize in ISV/Software Solutions in Microsoft's 2008 Partner Contest

Congratulations to Myro Mykhalchuk and his team at Say2Go for winning 1st Prize in Microsoft's 2008 Partner Contest for ISV/Software Solutions! Say2Go allows users to do something they're calling "Voicing" between IM users. Voicing is more like Read More...
Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 7:08 AM by robch | 0 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

Microsoft Speech Powered Azentek Wins International Telematics Award for Best Aftermarket Device

Did you know you could experience Microsoft's Speech Recognition technology in cars? No, I'm not talking about Ford Sync. I'm talking about an after market system designed to run Windows Vista in an in-dash PC made by Azentek. And ... They just won the Read More...
Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 8:53 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Oliver's interview about Live Search now with Speech Recognition

Long Zheng recently interviewed our very own Oliver Scholz about the latest Live Search that now has speech recognition functionality. Check it out . Read More...
Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 4:46 PM by robch | 0 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

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

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

Dee Jay: A voice-controlled juke box for Windows Vista

I stumbled across a new app on the net that uses the cool new recognition platform and recognizer included in Windows Vista. It's called Dee Jay and it was written by Martin L. Shoemaker from Inkon Software . I haven't downloaded it myself, but from it's Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:28 AM by robch | 1 Comments

Extending Windows Speech Recognition

I've blogged about how to find the Speech APIs on MSDN before, but have you wondered if anybody is writing apps for Speech in Vista? Well ... Yes they are. One particularly useful app I recently read about was written by Casey Chesnut . He's been into Read More...
Posted Monday, February 19, 2007 9:16 PM by robch | 1 Comments
 
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