Hello, I’m a Program Manager within the Speech and Natural Language team. In this blog readers will find information on how users are taking advantage of Speech Recognition and related technologies to perform their job. The primary focus is to promote the exchange of ideas about scenarios and technologies involving Speech Recognition in day-to-day workflows. Whether it is Information Workers (IW’s) such as doctors and lawyers conducting routine work at their offices, or technicians in a car assembly line, or field engineers on an oil drilling platform in a remote area of the North Sea. How speech enables IW’s regardless of computing environment is the focus of this blog.

I started in Microsoft in the summer 1990 working in the former International Product Group. In particular, I worked in OS/2 and LANMAN; great products and the basis of the current Windows family of products. Since them I have played various roles within Microsoft product and non-product groups and have contributed to several exciting products and services, some of them include Encarta, MS Reader, HTMLHelp, MSN Services, and recently Speech Recognition in Vista and Windows Mobile platforms.

The number of interesting places where Speech Recognition is making way is growing. Yet most agree that it is not a mainstream technology… what would it take to make it so?