Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Speech-to-text   (RSS)
Monday, December 31, 2007 12:45 PM

What a year for speech recognition at Microsoft

Yeah, yeah, the year in review, what a crushingly unoriginal idea for a post. But wait - this is worth it. 2007 was a huge year for speech recognition products at Microsoft. I think we'll look back on it as a real turning point. Here's how it shaped up.
Posted by Stephen Potter | 2 Comments
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 6:02 PM

Bored medical student impressed by speech recognition

Sullen student, bored by x-rays of terrible chest diseases, is mesmerised by speech recognition , mutters that's so cool . Can't argue with that. (And can't resist real stories with a whiff of The Onion .)
Posted by Stephen Potter | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 6:50 PM

Thinking aloud

Speech recognition in Vista works well for me. Dictation accuracy is very high - especially since I flicked the switch to train it on my emails and documents - and the correction experience is smooth and efficient. But I hardly use it. I find it very
Posted by Stephen Potter | 3 Comments
Filed under:
Thursday, January 18, 2007 6:20 PM

The novelist's method

IBM engineer and blogger Michael Tolva contacted Richard Powers in disbelief about the dictation of his recent work (see my last post ). Here's Mr Powers' reply about his correction UI: ...the combination of stylus and speech is far more fluid and powerful
Posted by Stephen Potter | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 7:45 PM

Writing with speech

Speaking in last Sunday's New York Times , novelist Richard Powers tells how he has used speech recognition on his TabletPC to compose all his writings of recent years. It's a fine article - you could quote him almost anywhere on the obstacles of the
Posted by Stephen Potter | 3 Comments
Filed under:
 
Page view tracker