January 2006 - Posts

Configure my TabletPC with Verizon EVDO via my Treo?
Hey, if this software works, it's pretty cool. I'd love to get my new Treo 700W to connect to my laptop. It's called PDANet by June Fabrics PDA Technology Group, and for $34 it claims to connect your laptop via ActiveSync with the Treo's Verizon network. Read More...
Posted 28 January 06 07:17 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Voice Command cheat sheet
Eric Badger made a cheat sheet for Voice Command : everything you can say and how to say it. Read More...
Posted 28 January 06 02:24 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Geeks and my new Treo
I just had to show off my new Treo, and what better place than the Geek Dinner last night at Bellevue Crossroads. Scoble was there of course, telling me about the guy he just met from CMU who uses SR in his car. Wait till he sees Rob Chambers' car...Rob Read More...
Posted 27 January 06 06:35 by sprague | 1 Comments   
What's special about Vista?
Scoble's list of what to like about Vista: 1) All new networking stack. Many times the performance. You don’t care about performance? Interesting. Watch this: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=116349 2) All new audio stack. You don’t care Read More...
Posted 24 January 06 01:22 by sprague | 26 Comments   
Transliteration tool
Nick Cipollone is one of our hard-core linguistic developers who regularly works with exotic scripts and complicated languages (natural ones, that is, though some people probably think C is complicated). In many of these languages, it's hard to enter Read More...
Posted 23 January 06 10:27 by sprague | 1 Comments   
New Treo 700w
Okay, I took the plunge. Yesterday I drove over to the Verizon Store in Bellevue Square and got myself a brand new Treo 700w running Windows Mobile 5. I'm the type of person who generally prefers to order over the Internet, where I can carefully evaluate Read More...
Posted 22 January 06 06:21 by sprague | 2 Comments   
Pronexus VBSALT is Product of the Year
Congratulations to our friends from Pronexus, who won Product of the Year from Internet Telephony Magazine. It's great to see them blogging again as well. Read More...
Posted 16 January 06 11:33 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Build an SR device in hardware
Here's an idea for your next science fair project. Images SI, Inc sells a Speech Recognition Kit for about $80 that outputs a digital number corresponding to the word it recognizes from its 20-40 word vocabulary. I don't know anything about this company, Read More...
Posted 13 January 06 12:33 by sprague | 0 Comments   
More on the Treo 700w
Lots more internal discussion about which phone is best... One of the key developers on the Voice Command team suggested I look more closely at the Palm Treo 700w that I mentioned the other day . He absolutely loves it ("orders of magnitude better" than Read More...
Posted 12 January 06 04:28 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Looking for a good phone
My wife is on the board of Youth Theatre Northwest , a very small, stingy non-profit organization of between 5 and 10 employees (depends on how you count "employee"). They're looking for a good phone system. Their staffers are not computer literate, so Read More...
Posted 07 January 06 05:27 by sprague | 0 Comments   
What's the best cell phone?
My contract's up and it's time to renew. I feel like I have the oldest most primitive cell phone in the group. Scoble got himself a fancy new Cingular 2125 . I want to run Voice Command, of course, and the device size doesn't matter that much to me. My Read More...
Posted 05 January 06 05:01 by sprague | 2 Comments   
Phonemes to speak
A reader sent me this question: Is there simple way to speak phonemes rather than text? I mean in order to TTS I have to do: SpVoice Voice = new SpVoice(); Voice.Speak(text, flags); Is there way to pass phonemes instead of text? SpeechLead's answer is Read More...
Posted 03 January 06 03:37 by sprague | 1 Comments   
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