Hi, my name is Philipp Schmid and I am the development lead for the speech APIs at Microsoft. My team delivers both the COM-based sapi.dll (which ships as part of the OS since Windows XP) and the new managed API, System.Speech (part of WinFX). I was one of the original developers on SAPI 5.0 (which shipped in Windows XP and Office XP). I then became my own customer as I used sapi.dll to speech-enable the shell in Windows for Tablet PC V 1.0. After that I returned to the speech group to become the development lead for the managed API effort.

Before joining MSFT in 1999, I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Oregon Graduate Institute (now part of the Oregon Health Sciences University) and then spent 2 wonderful years as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Spoken Language Systems Group at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.

But enough about me. This blog is about all things speech recognition and speech synthesis. On the side I am very interested in enterprise technologies and will comment on those from time to time.

One more thing: 2 more days until I leave for the PDC ... More about that in my next blog.

- Philipp