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 the tagline for the video?

People seem interested in the fact that we have so many non-native English speakers on the teams.  I wonder what they would say if we pointed out that much of the core SR engine model is made in China?

Seriously, that's one of the things I find interesting about the speech business: so many people not born in the U.S. are doing great work on something you'd think needs to be done by native speakers.  Why? Well, the computer doesn't care: it's just a mathematical model that depends only on getting the right training data.  How well does it work?  Get Vista and judge for yourself!