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Microsoft Exchange 2010 Buzz -- Speech is 1 of 5 key features, according to Mary-Jo Foley from ZDNet

Mary-Jo Foley posted an article on her blog on ZDNet yesterday talking about how the RTM buzz for Microsoft Exchange 2010 is growing louder. It's an interesting read . The Speech team has been busy at work supporting the Exchange team for quite a while, Read More...
Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 7:01 AM by robch | 0 Comments

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

TellMe Rolls Out Better Speech Recognition And An Almost-Sexy New Voice Called Zira

Last night, as 12:01am, Tellme announced their Spring 09 upgrades to their underlying speech platform. You can read all about it here on Tellme.com . There have been a ton of news articles about it since the announcement, but I liked what Tech Crunch Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:19 PM by robch | 1 Comments

Using Windows Speech Recognition to blog?

I've been reading a lot of blog posts lately about bloggers using Speech Recognition technology themselves to write their blog articles. Because some bloggers get paid per post that they create, and some others even get paid per character that they write, Read More...
Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 7:22 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

Macro of the Day: Disable Cap [textInDocument]

A reader recently wrote to us here at Microsoft, and asked us if there was a way to disable the built in command for "Cap [textInDocument]". Sometimes, for some people, this command can be recognized a little too easily if you're actually trying Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:20 PM by robch | 1 Comments

Macro of the Day: Microphone Control

I've got two microphones that I use most of the time. An Andrea SoundMAX SuperBeam 2 element array-microphone from Andrea Electronics An xTag wireless microphone from RevoLabs I really love both of them, and I use them interchangeably throughout the day. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 1:36 PM by robch | 1 Comments

WA State Deploys Microsoft Audio Indexing Solution

It’s official. Microsoft’s audio indexing solution (born out of Microsoft Research) is now online as a part of a Washington State pilot program aimed at making audio recordings from 1973 to present available to the public, with an easy to use search interface. Read More...
Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 9:22 AM by robch | 1 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

Speech Server 2007 Resources

If you want to start developing on Speech Server 2007, you should probably start off using the Speech Server 2007 Developer Edition – a free, yet fully functional version of the retail product. You can download it here . Please be sure to follow Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:30 AM by robch | 1 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

Macro of the Day: Math Test!

One of the joys of being a parent is helping them learn. I'm very lucky, in that regard, because my kids love learning. In fact, my son Zac really loves Math. He gets that from both his Mom and his Dad. So, when he was a little guy, I made a Word Macro Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 7:33 AM by robch | 0 Comments

JetBlue chooses Microsoft speech recognition technology over Nuance

Here's an interesting article on JetBlue's choice of using Microsoft's speech technology over that of Nuance. I especially like this tag line: "Redmond shakes up the voice-recognition space by offering more reliable software for less" The author Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 7:30 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Macro of the Day: Search Tivo for That!

Every year in the Fall it's time for me to check out what's new on TV , and decide what, if anything, I'm going to start watching. This year's no different... Ah... Well ... It was actually different. This year, just a couple weeks ago, my Tivo completely Read More...
Posted Monday, September 01, 2008 9:35 PM by robch | 2 Comments
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