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Recite on Windows Mobile
Sometimes the best speech apps don’t really use speech recognition at all. I mean, yeah, there’s an audio stream and yeah there’s some processing, but you don’t always need the computer to understand what was said in order for it to be useful. My favorite Read More...
Posted 18 February 09 03:33 by sprague | 1 Comments   
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Audio indexing goes live
My old speech team reminds me that the State of Washington has just deployed an audio indexing service that lets you do a keyword search through thousands of hours of government audio recordings. Read the details on Rob Chambers blog . Read More...
Posted 03 November 08 11:23 by sprague | 1 Comments   
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Speech on Macintosh
Rob Chambers, the new GPM for my old group , is blogging about Macintosh speech recognition , asking users to tell him what they think of OS X. While visiting Palo Alto yesterday, my friend Bill Katz showed me the new Leopard: some nicely done "eye candy" Read More...
Posted 31 October 07 01:42 by sprague | 0 Comments   
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Live Speech
I've been busy with Response Point the last few months, but my old speech team hasn't stopped working. Today, together with the Windows Live team, they released to the world some very cool ways to search from your mobile phone. Try any of the following: Read More...
Posted 16 October 07 09:41 by sprague | 1 Comments   
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Speech team blog
Okay, fine, I'll post something to this blog again. I said I would try to switch to my main blog for everything, but I can't help it. There's too much happening at work, and my other readers just don't care as much about this as you do. Anyway, it's been Read More...
Posted 06 September 07 12:17 by sprague | 1 Comments   
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Dragon founder moves to new job
Jim Baker, who along with wife Janet started Dragon Naturally Speaking ten years ago, is moving to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University to direct a new center focused on language technology used by the Defense Department. The goal of the project, nicely Read More...
Posted 29 July 07 01:52 by sprague | 3 Comments   
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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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