September 2004 - Posts

Technology Review on speech in mobile phones
Technology Review has a summary of the technology behind Voice Signal , one of the companies making SR for small devices like PDAs and cell phones. They laud a technique that sounds a lot like cepstra encoding, but of course we do that too. Read More...
Posted 28 September 04 08:02 by sprague | 1 Comments   
Why people don't buy TabletPCs
Engadget has a short piece by a Jupiter Research analyst that explains why TabletPC hasn't done as well as many expected. Conclusion: people don't care about the price, but they don't feel (or don't know) they need the extra features. Note that there's Read More...
Posted 26 September 04 11:30 by sprague | 4 Comments   
Speech recognition and microphones
I've been told that Marty Markoe at eMicrophones has a lot of resources of interest if you are looking for information about speech recognition, particularly if you want to know something about microphones. The eMicrophones site includes an interesting Read More...
Posted 20 September 04 06:51 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Simple text-to-speech script for Windows
The script I posted a few days ago works on my TabletPC, but I'm not sure why. Jayman Dalal is a test engineer who suggested the following, much better script. Open Notepad and save the following to a file named "Dospeak.js": function DoSpeak(phrase) Read More...
Posted 20 September 04 04:50 by sprague | 1 Comments   
Move your speech profile
Okay, you've gone through the effort to train your Microsoft dictation system, like the one in Office or the TabletPC. You move computers. Do you have to train it again? No, not if you have the Speech Profile Manager tool, a free download from http://download.microsoft.com Read More...
Posted 17 September 04 04:00 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Amus worm that speaks to Windows users
ZDNet and others are reporting on the Amus worm that spreads through an email attachment called "Listen and Smile" and causes your computer to speak a strange message after it boots. Sounds like the worm author used the SAPI TTS, which is very easy to Read More...
Posted 15 September 04 12:10 by sprague | 2 Comments   
Do you subscribe to Speech Technology Magazine?
One of the places the Microsoft team gets updates on speech industry news is Speech Technology Magazine . Their web site has free summaries of speech-related news, and if you're a "qualified subscriber" you can get a free print copy mailed to you. Read More...
Posted 14 September 04 07:50 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Open source speech projects
IBM just announced a plan to release some of their SR software as open source ". I'm trying out a new offline blog client right now, so this will be a short message, but I wanted to point out that t here are at least three open-source speech recognition Read More...
Posted 14 September 04 04:29 by sprague | 1 Comments   
Tutorial for using speech on a Tablet PC
Lots of people ask me about Tablet PC and the kind of speech support we provide, particularly for developers who want to use or extend it for custom applications. The first stop I suggest is Casey Chesnut's site, where he has posted a step-by-step tutorial Read More...
Posted 13 September 04 03:42 by sprague | 0 Comments   
MIT Speech Recognition Classes on the web
M.I.T.'s Open Courseware initiative puts most of their class lectures out on the Internet for all to see. One that's definitely worth checking out sometime is their course # 6.345 " Automatic Speech Recognition". The class is co-taught by Victor Zue, Read More...
Posted 13 September 04 03:16 by sprague | 1 Comments   
Guess the language
Here's an amusing site if you're interested in languages. Nicholas Whyte put together a quiz for guessing the 34 languages of McDonalds , after noticing the translations provided with a game in his son's Happy Meal. Read More...
Posted 13 September 04 12:33 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Speech Server resources
If you've thought about Microsoft Speech Server, you almost certainly have looked at http://www.microsoft.com/speech , which is our Internet headquarters for information about speech. But sometimes even veteran MSS forget that there really is a ton of Read More...
Posted 13 September 04 09:55 by sprague | 2 Comments   
SpeechTEK 2004 VUI workshop abstracts
SpeechTek 2004 in New York is the next event on our marketing calendar. There are a number of interesting sessions that I found in a list of Workshops for the event. The link includes additional links to other papers and articles for those of you really Read More...
Posted 03 September 04 04:28 by sprague | 0 Comments   
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