June 2007 - Posts

Is that restaurant any good? Ask 1-877-456-DATA
Geoff Zweig, Patrick Nguyen, and a bunch of other guys from the MSR speech team just published a paper called " The Voice-Rate Dialog System for Consumer Ratings ", which unless you're a speech scientist you would probably never see, but look at the very Read More...
Posted 24 June 07 02:00 by sprague | 0 Comments   
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Goodbye speech
Three years ago , when I moved to Redmond from Silicon Valley, I had no idea I would stay working on Speech Recognition technology for so long. My previous life had been spent on TV, at Microsoft and earlier at WebTV Networks, where I helped develop and Read More...
Posted 21 June 07 06:21 by sprague | 8 Comments   
Resources for understanding speech
Albert asked me this question: Hi Richard, nice blog. I liked the 'Devil' video. I have to give a pretty technical explanation taking speech recognition from linguistics through the technical side of how it works and point to a working demo. Any ideas? Read More...
Posted 07 June 07 04:06 by sprague | 2 Comments   
Bill Gates Predictions for 2007
Todd Bishop dug up an old copy of Omni magazine from 1987 that included an essay by Bill Gates predicting how the world would look in 20 years. For the most part his predictions were pretty good: flat panel screens everywhere, universal access to a huge Read More...
Posted 05 June 07 11:29 by sprague | 1 Comments   
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