May 2005 - Posts

TTS in Scientific American

The June issue of Scientific American has a nice overview of Text To Speech (TTS) technology, written by a couple of researchers from IBM. Fairly basic overview, but a nice summary of the issues. Several TTS companies are mentioned, but not Microsoft Read More...

Posted 31 May 05 02:26 by sprague | 0 Comments   

Ch9 Video about SpeechFX

Our own Robert Brown is on Channel 9 now, with a Scoble interview discussing speech technology and the new SpeechFX preview in Avalon. Too bad he couldn’t get our internal call-routing speech app to work on the first shot (Aussie English!) but good job Read More...

Posted 28 May 05 06:49 by sprague | 0 Comments   

New Managed Speech API

Today is a big day for speech developers. Check out Robert Brown's post for details about the new managed speech API (aka SpeechFX). You can download it yourself or see more details about Avalon and the rest of the process of developing for Longhorn at: Read More...

Posted 23 May 05 01:46 by sprague | 0 Comments   

Huge speech announcement coming Monday

Developers, start your engines! Microsoft will release some cool speech bits on Monday, so be sure to keep an eye on http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/ Read More...

Posted 19 May 05 08:10 by sprague | 0 Comments   

Bill Gates and Steve Balmer speeches on line

Bill Gates talked about speech recognition during the Windows Mobile 5.0 launch this week. You can watch the speech or read a transcript . Also, check out Steve Balmer's talk on innovation at a recent Stanford B-school presentation. I used to attend the Read More...

Posted 13 May 05 01:47 by sprague | 0 Comments   

Language packs RTM

Great news! We just uploaded the RTM versions of French Canadian and US Spanish language packs, plus the Speech Server SDK . We'll talk about the tons of features and improvements at our launch event, but developers can start working with the RTM versions Read More...

Posted 04 May 05 12:00 by sprague | 0 Comments   

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