Richard Sprague WebLog : July 2004

Voice-activating dialing takes longer: An article about car phones in today’s Wall Street Journal [subscription required] describes a study of 54 participants done by scientists at the Transportation Research Center in East Liberty , Ohio , and the University of Iowa . It found that Read More...
Posted 19 July 04 05:12 by sprague | 2 Comments
Why benchmarking is so hard: We care a lot about the accuracy of our recognition, of course, since that’s the first thing normal people think about when they evaluate a speech system. It’s tempting to suppose accuracy is a product of the core speech “engine”, Read More...
Posted 19 July 04 05:11 by sprague | 6 Comments
Speak Easy and Say Anything: ComputerWorld’s latest issue has an article on speech recognition . I’m a re-entrant to the speech world – I started thinking about it again earlier this year, after more than 10 years away from the field – so I like to read these Read More...
Posted 06 July 04 09:32 by sprague | 0 Comments
July 5, 2004: First Post: Welcome to my MSDN Blog. I am a Group Program Manager in the Microsoft Speech Products Group, so much of what you’ll see here is relevant to anyone interested in speech recognition and Microsoft’s products that recognize speech, including the new Microsoft Read More...
Posted 05 July 04 03:45 by sprague | 3 Comments

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