June 2006 - Posts

Recommended software features

Scott sent me this list of ways to make computers more useful: http://www.tobynopoly.com/wish/computer.html Read More...

Posted 29 June 06 06:58 by sprague | 1 Comments   

Speech Server video on Channel 9

Channel 9 just posted a new video of Albert Kooiman, Mithun Dhar, and David Ollason from the Speech Server team talking about the new 2007 version. I'm laughing as I read the comments so far. "Watch a Dutch guy speaking English". Maybe that should be Read More...

Posted 28 June 06 05:31 by sprague | 0 Comments   

New speech newsgroups

Yet another way to stay in touch with the speech team: several new speech newsgroups are live: Under http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx English > Servers > Server Applications > Speech Server > Speech Server Read More...

Posted 21 June 06 09:49 by sprague | 2 Comments   

SF Chronicle review of next-gen speech companies

This is a bit old (April 24) but I just noticed that I haven't blogged it yet, so here goes. If you haven't seen this article , it's worth a look. It's the San Francisco Chronicle's nice overview of various new speech companies and they ways they are Read More...

Posted 19 June 06 05:11 by sprague | 0 Comments   

Better input, better output

Microoptical Corporation in Westwood, Massachusetts, has started selling something I've wanted for years. It's a cheap video viewer that looks like a thick pair of sunglasses but lets you view full-screen video. They sell the MyVu Personal Media Viewer Read More...

Posted 19 June 06 03:47 by sprague | 0 Comments   

New Natural Language blog

If you're interested in how Microsoft develops spell-checkers, word breakers, grammar checkers, and more natural language components, be sure to look at the new Natural Language team blog . Read More...

Posted 11 June 06 07:21 by sprague | 0 Comments   

Spell check wars

I forgot to thank Stephen for pointing us to the Onion article about word processing wars. My friends in Natural Language are still laughing about it. Read More...

Posted 10 June 06 05:16 by sprague | 1 Comments   

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