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December 2005 - Posts

Talk (to your) Radio

Nice news from VoiceBox Technologies (just around the corner in Kirkland, WA), who are currently on the front page of CNET News announcing a deal with XM Satellite Radio to "let drivers issue voice commands to search through XM Satellite Radio's 160 channels

2005: Speech blog posts of the year

In the spirit of the year in review, here are 5 random posts from the blogdom of speech solutions that caught my eye in 2005: "Lost passwords on a Sunday Morning" Nice anecdote from Terry Gold about an employee of "Really Big Consulting Firm" who has

MSS 2004 and SQL Server Reporting Services 2005

Update (May 17, 20007): KB articles have been published and links added inline. There are a couple of issues that may prevent the MSS 2004 Basic Reports from working out-of-the-box with SQL Server Reporting Services 2005. We will soon be publishing a

Exchange 12 Beta - with speech technology

Very cool news this week, from the Beta announcement of the next version of Microsoft Exchange: 'Information workers want the freedom to access their inbox regardless of where they may be... Exchange “12” revolutionizes access by offering a speech-enabled

Barriers to speech adoption in the contact center

A summary of the online debate that I mentioned last week has appeared in Speech Technology magazine online: http://www.speechtechmag.com/issues/industry/12716-1.html . Of most interest is the participant poll. A good number of attendees (60% of those

Speech Server R2 MOM management pack released

Management and monitoring of Microsoft Speech Server just got much easier with the release of an MSS management pack for MOM 2005. More details and the management pack download are here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=23977e00-e369-42a9-b5dc-2f40f6e3f816&DisplayLang=en

"Prognostication over the phone is popular"

Always nice to see new applications of telephony speech recognition beyond the traditional call-centre -- a recent article from Telecommunications Online " Cell-phone or Microphone " discusses some applications for cell-phone users in Thailand, amongst
 
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