Microsoft Speech Technology Bloggers
Update 26 Jan 2006: I've updated this information and posted it in an article. See the article for the most up-to-date information.
They're on a lot of blogrolls, but who are these people and what do they actually do every day? Here's a quick overview of people who blog on speech and natural language technology at Microsoft and the kinds of discussions we can expect them to get into.
Richard Sprague
Group Program Manager in the Speech and Natural Language group. Long-time and prolific blogger. The Sprague Weblog (RSS) has insights into Richard's daily work, and musings and help on the core recognition and NL technology as well as the industry at large.
Chris Schindler
Program Manager in Speech Server. Chris's blog Speech Server Coffeehouse (RSS) has discussions and advice on VUI design. Chris was involved in an application that made a vital impact for thousands of people: Katrina Safe. This was adopted by the American Red Cross, and versions have subsequently been deployed to help people impacted by other serious disasters such as Hurricane Stan and the earthquakes in Pakistan.
Phil Beber
Developer on the Speech Server team. Phil works on the logging code for MSS, and talks about it on his blog Blogging about Logging (bit of a poet, our Phil) (RSS). He's recently posted code samples and some advice about dynamic scripting.
Robert Brown
Program Manager in the Speech and Natural Language Group (formerly with Speech Server). Robert's blog All the cool developers use Speech APIs (RSS) has some discussions about developing speech applications, and he recently posted an acclaimed article about the forthcoming speech capabilities in Windows Vista.
Philipp Schmid
Philipp's a developer in the Speech and Natural Language group and is responsible for much of SAPI as we know it. Philipp's SpeechLead (RSS) blog has lots of posts from the recent PDC (Professional Developers Conference), and some sample code for a speech-enabled RSS reader.
Steve Chang
Steve's a Program Manager on the Speech Server team. His blog Making Speech Ubiquitous... and Less Annoying! (RSS) has thoughts on speech technologies, voice user interfaces, and linguistics, which is great, because that's its subtitle. Nice discussion on how the semantic faux pas '... fills a much needed void' is used with alarming frequency.
Anandi Raman Creath
Anandi's a Program Manager in Microsoft Speech Server who's responsible, among other things, for our TAP -- Technology Adoption Program. She has posted many insider discussions of the program, on her site Anandi's Thoughts (RSS), along with some personal musings on life and working at Microsoft.
Rob Chambers
Software Architect in the Natural UI team and very active blogger. Rob's blog Rob's Rhapsody (RSS) has details of his work with speech recognition in Windows Vista, and has questions, comments and discussions around all sorts of applications of speech technology. Rob's post about demoing to Bill Gates was picked up by the Seattle PI.
Joe Calev
Joe's a tester in Speech Server, and his blog Joe Calev's Weblog (RSS) discusses aspects of his daily work and coding tips with the Speech Server SDK. Joe's also a seasoned traveller: see his recent posts -- 6 installments -- on travelling with small children...
Ken Circeo
Ken is lead technical writer for Speech Server, and his blog Ken Circeo: The View From Building 17 (RSS) has posts on his daily documentation work (see Making help helpful) as well as humorous posts on the Microsoft community, balloon rides, coffee, and other important matters.
Jay Waltmunson
Jay is a Program Manager in the Speech and Natural Language Group, and his blog Jay's blog on text-to-speech (RSS) is digest of news and happenings around TTS, both general and Microsoft-related. See his article on saving TTS output to .wav in C#.
Stephen Potter
Well, that's me, Program Manager in the Speech Server team. My blog The Spoken Word (RSS) is intended to share news on Microsoft Speech Server and to discuss themes and trends on speech recognition and spoken dialog technology at large. Keep me on the straight and narrow: let me know if I'm not doing that...
Update (30 Dec 2005): a number of these blogs are syndicated through Microsoft Community Blogs service: here's an RSS feed for the 20 most recent speech-related posts: 
Update (5 January 2005): I never knew Jay had a blog! Added Jay's blog on text-to-speech from Jay Waltmunson.
