Richard Sprague WebLog : May 2006

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Brain User Interface: My long-time buddy Paul points me to a recent announcement that Honda is demoing a way to control a robot through brainwaves. At first you might think that's incredible, and really taking speech recognition to the next level. I'm skeptical, so Paul replied Read More...
Posted 29 May 06 07:48 by sprague | 1 Comments
What's on your Treo?: I spent the afternoon getting my Treo working the way I like it. I had been having a terrible time with ActiveSync over the past month and I finally decided to do something about it: I hard-reset the device and started over. Boy, I don’t know why I didn’t Read More...
Posted 27 May 06 08:25 by sprague | 1 Comments
Beta-testing Office and Windows: I've been using the 2007 Office pre-release versions for several months, and now that it's been released in Beta2, so can you. Download a free copy from the Office web site and try it out. I have it installed on most of my machines, including the TabletPC Read More...
Posted 25 May 06 02:14 by sprague | 0 Comments
WinHEC and Speech Recognition: This is WinHEC week in Seattle, and here's what BillG had to say in his keynote speech: We're taking advantage of the incredible chip improvements that Intel and AMD and others bring up that allows us to be more ambitious in terms of what software can Read More...
Posted 23 May 06 08:10 by sprague | 0 Comments
Team Picnic: The Speech & Natural Language PMs had a nice picnic on Friday afternoon. Here's a quick photo taken with my Treo700w. Here are a few of us standing next to the beach on Lake Sammamish. Read More...
Posted 21 May 06 09:57 by sprague | 0 Comments
My Microsoft: I almost drove my car into our HR Chief, Lisa Brummel walking past our building yesterday morning. I was in a hurry and she was listening to her MP3 player, so she probably doesn't know how close I was. Anyway, it's a good thing I slowed in time, because Read More...
Posted 19 May 06 06:40 by sprague | 0 Comments
Bill Gates and CEO Summit speech mentions speech: Take a look at this quote in Bill's executive email today , sent during the CEO Summit [click for webcast]: In my first CEO Summit keynote speech in 1997, I looked ahead 10 years to a time when bandwidth would be vastly improved, the majority of adults Read More...
Posted 17 May 06 01:25 by sprague | 0 Comments
Cell phone radiation and Treo: CNET has a summary of the radiation levels for various cell phones, including PocketPC phones like my Treo 700w. For a phone to pass FCC certification, that phone's maximum SAR level must be less than 1.6W/kg (watts per kilogram). In Europe, the level Read More...
Posted 17 May 06 01:16 by sprague | 0 Comments
Hillarious Saturday Night Live video on speech: Did you see that funny Saturday Night Live skit last Fall about the automated phone lady ? Well now there's a new one, this time with Antonio Banderas. Hillarious! I just looked through the NBC site to see if there's a legitimate copy someplace. Does Read More...
Posted 15 May 06 02:34 by sprague | 0 Comments
Back in the office: Well I'm back from the Happiest Place on Earth. I guess that means I should be less happy now. But what's not to be happy about? Lots of cool things happened while I was gone: The Speech Server team finished their Beta . Lots of customers will be in town Read More...
Posted 09 May 06 09:36 by sprague | 2 Comments
Language translation and speaking with Pollyglotto: Eric Iverson is running a site that finally mixes spoken and written language: http://pollyglotto.com asks you to submit a phrase in one of 11 different languages and it translates it for you. But the cool part is that it also uses TTS to speak the translation. Read More...
Posted 07 May 06 07:51 by sprague | 1 Comments

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