February 2006 - Posts

Finally! Somebody using SALT for speech
Sanyo Electric, in Japan, is releasing a new kitchen stove that has a "voice navigation" feature: [from PopGadget ] Read More...
Posted 21 February 06 05:49 by sprague | 1 Comments   
Live Labs Manifesto
See Gary Flake's vision for MSN's Live Labs for a short description of where he thinks the Internet is going. Read More...
Posted 19 February 06 06:00 by sprague | 0 Comments   
OpenOffice Bloat
Slashdot pointed to something last Fall that showed how Office 2003 has way better performance than OpenOffice, so of course everyone chimed in to explain how the test wasn't fair, how that's not how you really evaluate Windows performance, the Evil Empire Read More...
Posted 15 February 06 04:29 by sprague | 2 Comments   
Bill Gates in Portugal
Bill Gates spoke last week at the Government Leaders Forum, held in Lisbon Portugal. (See the webcast ) As always when Bill speaks about the future, he brings up SR: BillG: You know, I am a big believer in speech recognition. That is only being done in Read More...
Posted 14 February 06 09:01 by sprague | 0 Comments   
My other blogging life
You wouldn't know it from my recent posting history here, but I am still blogging quite prolificly over at my personal blog . I don't advertise it much over here, since it's hosted on Blogger (which I have used regularly since it was Pyra Labs), and it's Read More...
Posted 12 February 06 03:14 by sprague | 0 Comments   
Bluetooth and Voice Command
MikeCal over on the Windows Mobile Team Blog has a short summary of why Voice Command doesn't work on Bluetooth. Briefly, the reason is that when the speech group built the original Voice Command SR models, we built them for the higher-quality 16KHz audio Read More...
Posted 03 February 06 04:35 by sprague | 1 Comments   
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