August 2004 - Posts

Yahoo Group on speech recognition
One of these days I'm going to write up a list of all the speech-related sites and newsgroups I know about, but there is one that has been producing interesting traffic and bears some mention because it's focused just on Microsoft speech and it's completely Read More...
Posted 28 August 04 06:32 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Microsoft Speech is hiring!
Do you enjoy working closely with world-class researchers to ship products at the cutting edge of computer science? My group, the Speech Components Group (in the Speech Products Group) is looking for a highly-technical program manager to drive forward Read More...
Posted 19 August 04 10:47 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Voice Recognition in police cruisers
Here's an idea for an application of speech technology: voice control in police cruisers. http://www.project54.unh.edu/ Read More...
Posted 15 August 04 04:45 by sprague | 0 Comments   
VOIP Conference Notes
One of our developers attended last week's VOIP Developer Conference in San Jose and came back with some observations about consequences to speech: The move to VOIP is driven by functionality, not cost. VOIP is taking off because there are great new things Read More...
Posted 12 August 04 05:26 by sprague | 2 Comments   
MSDN webcast on professional speech development
There are a number of resources available at http://www.microsoft.com/speech to people who want to learn about speech application development, but if you'd prefer to participate in a webcast, MSDN is sponsoring this one: Quick and Easy Professional Speech Read More...
Posted 10 August 04 03:25 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Clayton Christensen on competing against non-consumption
From an email I got today about Harvard Business School Professor and author of the The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution Clayton Christensen and his "competing against non-consumption" thesis. One example Clayton gives is Sony and the Read More...
Posted 09 August 04 06:12 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Performance problems with Voice Command?
We've been hearing reports of people who find Voice Command to be very slow after using it for a while on their PocketPCs. PDAPhoneHome posted a workaround, but I'm told that is unnecessary now that v1.01 has been released. Anyone who purchased V1.0 can Read More...
Posted 06 August 04 10:59 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Speech Server and Pocket IE Speech Add-in article
I just got back from a wonderful two-week vacation visiting relatives in Maine and what do I see? A wonderful how-to article on how to use multimodal speech with Speech Server and Pocket IE. Casey Chesnut is one of our most visible power users. Read More...
Posted 06 August 04 10:40 by sprague | 0 Comments   
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