February 2005 - Posts

SpeechTek

I went to SpeechTek in San Francisco t his week, but only for a day. Last year, SpeechTek was a humongous event for Microsoft, featuring Bill Gates as one of the keynote speakers and a big booth as we launched the new Microsoft Speech Server . This year Read More...

Posted 26 February 05 09:28 by sprague | 1 Comments   

Use Encarta for free

Normally, a subscription to Encarta costs $5/month (or $30/year), but a new arrangement with MSN Search lets you use it two hours for free when you search on MSN at http://search.msn.com. Try doing a search on Speech Recognition . Okay, nothing special Read More...

Posted 15 February 05 05:24 by sprague | 2 Comments   

Trying speech recognition, then giving up

Lee is a pretty typical new speech user: In a fit of wanting to type faster, I looked into the latest version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. After 30 mintues of googling, I've decided that speech recognition is still not ready for prime time. :- He notes Read More...

Posted 13 February 05 01:06 by sprague | 0 Comments   

Another Speech blogger

Watch out! Robert Brown is another of our speech PMs who has a blog . Robert works on the Speech API, both the classic unmanaged one (SAPI) and the unmanaged System.Speech that we're doing for Longhorn. There's a lot to say about both of these, and Robert Read More...

Posted 12 February 05 06:40 by sprague | 0 Comments   

Detecting when someone is really listening to you

Hussein sent me a link to an interesting article by David Pescovitz at TheFeature.com: " Are You Listening to Me? " Computer scientists at the Palo Alto Research Center, a subsidiary of Xerox Corporation, are developing software systems that analyze the Read More...

Posted 07 February 05 09:31 by sprague | 0 Comments   

Speech in Avalon CTP

Scott Weinstein is wondering about speech recognition support in Avalon. We read your blog, Scott, as well as blogs from numerous other speech-interested people. (and I'm always interested in hearing from more people!) Tell us more about what you'd like Read More...

Posted 03 February 05 01:50 by sprague | 0 Comments   

Dictomail is not a computer

Mystery solved! I'm now convinced that Dictomail is a human and not some great new telephony-based dictation system: Here's the text I just entered (enunciated quickly, but clearly): Guido, It s me, Feliciano. I stuffed the body in the trunk of a maroon Read More...

Posted 02 February 05 04:14 by sprague | 2 Comments   

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