November 2004 - Posts

Designing speech apps for Spanish
Sondra Ahlen is a Silicon Valley consultant who co-authored an interesting paper in the July/August Speech Technology magazine called " ¿ Bueno? Are You listening to Your Spanish Speakers ". She notes how different an application can be when translated Read More...
Posted 26 November 04 03:14 by sprague | 2 Comments   
Microsoft Speech Server scalability
Read this report first-hand from Intel: When Intel engineers tested the scalability of the Microsoft Speech Server* in a multi-server configuration incorporating Intel® Pentium® processors, Intel telephony boards, and Intel NetMerge® Call Manager software. Read More...
Posted 19 November 04 05:48 by sprague | 1 Comments   
Speech-to-speech translation system for mobile phones
A company in India is working on a mobile phone translation system according to this article in The Telegraph (Calcutta) : The speech-to-speech translation technology is being jointly developed by C-DAC in association with a few professors from Indian Read More...
Posted 15 November 04 11:24 by sprague | 1 Comments   
TV listings and other calendar updates directly to Outlook
Here's a company that supplies TV and sports games listings to Outlook: http://www.calendar-updates.com/ Read More...
Posted 15 November 04 11:21 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Chess and SALT
This message was sent to the SALT forum : I am sending you this e-mail to inform you about an application (UA-Chess, www.ics.forth.gr/uachess ) utilizing SALT that is freely available trough the web, in case you are interested in providing real examples Read More...
Posted 15 November 04 03:01 by sprague | 0 Comments   
PowerToys and free add-ins from Microsoft
Did you know that Microsoft publishes a whole bunch of free tools, gadgets, add-ins, etc. for Windows? They're called PowerToys and you can download them from the Microsoft.com downloads site. My favorites are the Font Tool (make a TrueType font from Read More...
Posted 14 November 04 09:10 by sprague | 5 Comments   
Speaking of TTS…Speegle web searches
Here's a company that does Google-like web searches and plays back the results using a text to speech system. One of the cool things is that you don't need a TTS engine in your OS -- it synthesizes and then outputs using a Macromedia Flash control. http://www.speegle.co.uk Read More...
Posted 11 November 04 11:11 by sprague | 4 Comments   
TTS at Microsoft
Microsoft Research Asia (which Technology Review calls " The World's Hottest Computer Lab ") does a lot of cool projects related to speech. Check out their text to speech demo: https://research.microsoft.com/speech/tts/ (The English site appears to be Read More...
Posted 11 November 04 10:15 by sprague | 3 Comments   
Hotmail upgrades to 250MB and beyond
Many years ago, when I worked in evangelism at Apple Computer, I was visited by an ex-Apple employee who wanted me to help promote his new startup company, which had an idea for a web-based email system he called Hotmail. I looked at it but quickly dismissed Read More...
Posted 10 November 04 10:16 by sprague | 7 Comments   
Flying planes with speech
MIT team guides airplane remotely using spoken English "Aeronautics researchers at MIT have developed a manned-to-unmanned aircraft guidance system that allows a pilot in one plane to guide another unmanned airplane by speaking commands in English. " Read More...
Posted 08 November 04 04:15 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Jon Udell tries dictation
Jon Udell, a columnist I respect, who used to write for Byte among others, and now is at Infoworld, tried Dragon Naturally Speaking and loved it . "The result was, by far, the best out-of-the-box experience I've ever had with this technology." Just wait Read More...
Posted 08 November 04 03:37 by sprague | 2 Comments   
Lunar eclipse video
John Archer is a tester who made a very cool video of last week's lunar eclipse. He did it all using Windows Movie Maker 2. Read More...
Posted 01 November 04 05:09 by sprague | 4 Comments   
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