January 2005 - Posts

Frost & Sullivan Product of the Year: Speech Server
Chris, at SpeechUp, posts about the recent award we won from Frost & Sullivan, who chose Microsoft Speech Server as their 2005 Enterprise Infrastructure Product of the Year. I didn't get a chance last week to write anything special about this, but of Read More...
Posted 31 January 05 06:24 by sprague | 1 Comments   
Jon Udell's IVR podcast
Jon Udell, a columnist for Infowold is an all-around tech guy I respect, and he has this podcast of a discussion he had recently with Ron Owens of Intervoice, talking about Microsoft Speech Server, SALT, Scansoft, etc. Eleanor Kruszewski has a transcript Read More...
Posted 31 January 05 06:18 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Dictomail: automatic voicemail transcription
I just tried out a very cool system from http://www.dictomail.com/ , using an interactive demo hosted by a company called Admiral Online. Their web site has an interactive demo that tells you to call a phone number, leave any message, and hang up. Here Read More...
Posted 28 January 05 05:43 by sprague | 9 Comments   
Language article in The Economist
People are passing around the office an article in the latest edition of The Economist, called "Corpus Colossal", about issues linguists are having in using the Internet as a source for training and research data. Obviously it's a big concern to us too, Read More...
Posted 21 January 05 09:47 by sprague | 0 Comments   
IBM speech patents
Jen Anderson's new blog summarizes a list of the speech-related patents that IBM released recently. (Jen is in the MS Speech group with me, and it's great to see her blogging) Read More...
Posted 20 January 05 06:23 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Programming by voice
Scott Weinstein's .net blog has a post on how to do programming by voice. He gives a pointer to IdentifierCache , an experimental add-in for VS.Net. Read More...
Posted 19 January 05 03:14 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Users blog about Voice Command
Scoble links to Tom Mertens' blog, in which he discovers Voice Command. Frankly, I'm a little surprised Scoble hasn't already heard about VC. Everyone who uses it loves it, all the press has been positive, and it really works! We even have versions in Read More...
Posted 08 January 05 07:08 by sprague | 2 Comments   
PBS show on speech tonight
I just heard that the PBS show 'Do You Speak American? will air tonight at 8:00pm (PST). I don't know much about it, but apparently several MS people doing speech reco work were included in the filming, which happened in 2003. Read More...
Posted 06 January 05 05:43 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Search clustering from Microsoft Research
Here's an interesting new search engine from MSR that uses clustering to help find related items: http://wsm.directtaps.net/ Read More...
Posted 04 January 05 01:47 by sprague | 0 Comments   
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