July 2005 - Posts

Speech Recognition in Windows Vista
It's true! the new Windows Vista includes a brand new speech recognition engine built in. The first beta is out today, so expect to hear more over the coming weeks as our first beta users begin to provide feedback (like this screenshot from Paul Thurrott's Read More...
Posted 27 July 05 04:19 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Northwest accents
An interesting piece on KUOW yesterday morning ( transcript and audio (3 min)) about research at U-W and Portland State on regional accents. To NW speakers, the vowels are the same in "odd" and "ought". Natives often drop the ending -ed, saying "can fruit" Read More...
Posted 23 July 05 07:52 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Goodbye to Kai-Fu Lee
For what it’s worth, the news of Kai-Fu Lee’s departure was as much of a shock to us as to anyone else. The last time we talked to him, he said he was going on sabbatical to write a book (in Chinese only) about “realizing your potential”. He said he’d Read More...
Posted 20 July 05 05:58 by sprague | 1 Comments   
SR in today's WSJ
Jeremy Wagstaff is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, whose article today is titled “ Speaking Up for Voice Recognition” . The gist is that SR is good at what it does, but is still a niche (and may always be). He adds this: “NaturallySpeaking is Read More...
Posted 15 July 05 06:42 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Are you a SAPI developer?
As Robert notes, we are running a survey of SAPI developers, so we can find out how make and promote our desktop speech API. Here are the details: Attention SAPI developers! The SAPI team at Microsoft wants to know what you think about our Speech API Read More...
Posted 14 July 05 02:25 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Speech Server KB articles
Here are a bunch of new Knowledge Base articles about Microsoft Speech Server: NEW 841388 - BUG: A "no" answer is falsely recognized when you first answer "yes" to the question "Any extension" in Speech Software Development Kit NEW 899311 - You receive Read More...
Posted 13 July 05 04:40 by sprague | 0 Comments   
New speech download: BuildAppLexicon
We recently released a new member of our free speech utility package. BuildAppLex.exe is a command-line tool that lets you create an Application Lexicon, using the Speech API. It takes one required command-line argument: a text file containing a list Read More...
Posted 13 July 05 02:06 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Speech (and natural language) blogs at Microsoft
Okay, just because I have been posting erratically for the past month or two, don't think not much has been happening. We had a big overhaul of the MSDN blog site in April, and it screwed up my carefully-honed posting system and I never quite recovered. Read More...
Posted 13 July 05 01:45 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Dvorak vs. QWERTY typing
By now most people know that stories about the origin of the QWERTY layout are a myth, exposed a few years ago by S. J. LIEBOWITZ and STEPHEN E. MARGOLIS. Many economists pointed to QWERTY as an example of the idea of "path dependence", attempting to Read More...
Posted 13 July 05 07:09 by sprague | 1 Comments   

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