October 2004 - Posts

Microsoft's sense of humor (real posts at microsoft.com)
Look at some of these items in various Microsoft support articles: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=152697 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q131109 http://support.microsoft.com/?id=172653 (from http://jill.jazzkeyboard.com/qarticles.html Read More...
Posted 31 October 04 06:03 by sprague | 3 Comments   
How does SR accuracy change over time
If you tried a speech recognition system a few years ago and weren't impressed, try again. The technology keeps getting better, slowly but surely, as this chart shows For many tasks, SR is already quite useful but the trend line shows how in not too many Read More...
Posted 22 October 04 08:20 by sprague | 1 Comments   
Blogs vs. Email (MSR Discussion)
There's a discussion over at http://msresearch.com about Blogs vs. Email . Read More...
Posted 22 October 04 09:24 by sprague | 0 Comments   
KB articles about TTS
You can find a lot of TTS-related articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base. One of the best overviews is: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=287120 Also, see this Powerpoint sample written by our testers. Read More...
Posted 18 October 04 11:28 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Cell phone dictation commercial from Kyocera
K1 in our group passed around a pointer to this funny commercial from Kyocera, showing how not to do dictation on a device: http://www.sliderstyle.com/video/tvspot_01.html Everybody wants a phone that can do things like email dictation so you can post Read More...
Posted 18 October 04 09:28 by sprague | 1 Comments   
Cool demos for the next SAPI
We need some sample apps to include with the next version of SAPI, and today we had another brainstorming session to think up some good ideas. Here are some of mine: ESL : something for English as a Second Language students. Transcribe the person's speech, Read More...
Posted 14 October 04 08:42 by sprague | 5 Comments   
What is VOIP good for?
Here's an article about all the ways to use VOIP: http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_issues&issue_id=16 Read More...
Posted 12 October 04 12:57 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Microphones and speech quality
I went to a presentation today by Dave Stevens, one of the devs in our group who has been doing a study on microphones. He presented some results which showed: Cheap stick microphones work pretty well in quiet environments but degrade rapidly as noise Read More...
Posted 07 October 04 11:19 by sprague | 0 Comments   
How to find info about SAPI
People sometimes ask me about how they can get more information about the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI): Here are some SAPI facts: The latest released version is SAPI 5.1, freely downloadable from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5e86ec97-40a7-453f-b0ee-6583171b4530&DisplayLang=en Read More...
Posted 06 October 04 11:50 by sprague | 1 Comments   
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