December 2004 - Posts

Voice-controlled universal translator
K1 sent this link to a description for a product that turns your Playstation into a universal language translator: http://www.talkaboutgaming.com/group/rec.games.video.nintendo/messages/576182.html The Japanese site includes some pictures and more description: Read More...
Posted 20 December 04 01:49 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Make MS technology available in local languages
Lately I've been meeting and talking with people from the MIcrosoft Local Language Program, an effort to make our software available in more languages, particularly languages that are not generally served by the IT industry. They run a site called the Read More...
Posted 20 December 04 09:32 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Feedspeaker: TTS for RSS feeds
K1 just sent me this pointer to a text to audio tool that will spit out an MP3 file with your computer's voice reading the text from an RSS feed: FeedSpeaker - Text to Audio Conversion of your RSS feeds ( http://www.feedvert.com/FeedSpeaker/ ) Read More...
Posted 14 December 04 11:51 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Fast Company interviews BillG on speech reco
An interesting interview published in Fast Company quotes BillG: "We've invested 10 years in the Tablet PC" -- Microsoft's platform for pen-computing, which has won only modest adoption. "We were in there even before the fad came along and after the fad Read More...
Posted 03 December 04 09:33 by sprague | 1 Comments   
TTS Overview and online speech courses
I saw a nice summary of the various TTS offerings from numerous vendors worldwide, and it references another on-line speech course that I would like to check out sometime. Read More...
Posted 01 December 04 10:58 by sprague | 1 Comments   
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