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SP2 has been updated to support speech barge-in
You wanted barge-in back. We heard you. It's back. Response Point SP2 now supports speech barge-in as a checkbox in the Configure Automated Receptionist dialog box: To install it.... Rather than supply a separate patch that would need to be applied every Read More...
Streamlining your Automated Receptionist Greeting
(Don't ping me on barge-in right now - or at least, if you do, I don't have any more info yet. Hopefully soon. UPDATE 3/14/09: barge-in is supported in SP2 ) In the meantime, here's a nice technique for streamlining your Automated Receptionist greeting. Read More...
Trouble-Shooting Speech Recognition
(UPDATE 3/14/09: take a look at the 10 ways to optimize speech recognition quick guide.) There have been lots of posts all over the web about how cool Response Point ’s speech recognition is. But every now and then somebody tells us it’s not working out Read More...
New Speech Server video on Channel 9
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=208891 Albert, Mithun and Dave talk us through some of the great new capabilities of the next version of Speech Server. I worked on the initial version of Speech Server (2004), as well as some of the plumbing Read More...
Updating speech samples for beta 2
When beta 1 shipped, we published this article in MSDN Magazine. We've made some minor tweaks to the API for beta 2, and I figure what better way to illustrate them than to walk through the samples in that article and update them for beta 2. First, the Read More...
Recent ZDNet article on speech
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020466,39274587,00.htm A high-level tour around speech synthesis and recognition. Read More...
MSDN Magazine article on speech in Vista
Okay, so I haven't been completely idle: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/speechinWindowsVista/#void (Thanks to Robert Stumberger, Rob Chambers, and the other folks here at Microsoft who helped put this together). Read More...
Building a speech telephony app
Bosky wrote : "basically i want my speech server to be able to accept a call, quickly port it say to another 'something' . so is this possible ? i hear MS offices themselves at some places have replaced the phone opperator with spech recognition based Read More...
WinFX speech API changes in PDC CTP
Joseph Kilada wrote "Robert, can you give any hints as to whether the WinFX Speech APIs have changed at all in build 5219 (or whatever the PDC build is) compared to Beta 1?" Sometime soon I'll post updates to all the samples I've put in this blog, to Read More...
Introducing SAPI 5.3
Vista (a.k.a. Longhorn) has a new version of SAPI: 5.3. SAPI 5.3 is an incremental update to SAPI 5.1. The core mission and architecture are unchanged across all 5.x releases. Among a variety of tweaks, SAPI 5.3 has these overall improvements: Support Read More...
Speech recognition of interviews & videos
Jonathan Tregear recently posted some comments/questions on speech recognition of interviews (in response to a brief discussion I had with Scoble in my Channel 9 interview a couple of months back). I looped in Frank Seide from Microsoft Research Asia Read More...
Speech interview on Channel 9
Channel 9 just posted an interview with me . Some links to stuff I talk about: The new speech API I posted about a few days ago The app I demo when I dial 0 is running on Speech Server , and the case study I mention is here . You may also be interested Read More...
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