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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.

Investing in voice

Big time ! This kind of brainpower and expertise, on this kind of scale... the future is here. Welcome, Tellme!

Getting real about unified communications

As planning for the next wave of speech server technologies gets underway, I'll try to post more on the broader context of Unified Communications. I'd love to get your feedback on the communication scenarios, applications or features that you'd like to

Speech in Office Communications Server - the word on the street

Now that the dust has settled on the announcement to integrate speech services into Office Communications Server , here are some choice words from the street: Avery Glasser, Opus Research : "This is an ecosystem changing event" Ian Rae, Silent Software:

Outlook Voice Access demo

With Exchange Server 2007 , currently in Beta, the ordinary telephone suddenly becomes an alternative to desktop Outlook. You can access and manipulate your email, calendar, contacts and other mailbox items over the phone, thanks to built-in speech recognition

Exchange 12 Unified Messaging demo

Steve Ballmer talked to a business audience in New York yesterday about Microsoft's People Ready vision for empowering people within business. He included a section of live demos, including voice access to your email and calendar over the phone. As Chris

From intelligent interfaces to unified communications

Speech Server is now a part of Anoop Gupta's new Unified Communications Group. There's a Q&A with Anoop here about the new group and its directions (which also brings the Exchange and Real Time Communications teams together) with his thoughts on how
 
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