Rob's Rhapsody
Rob Chambers talks about Speech Recognition, Life at Microsoft inside OSD, and other random thoughts...
Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been demonstrating various features of the new speech platform...
Date: 11/14/2012
In today's post, I'm going to show you how to use the three different parts of the speech platform...
Date: 11/06/2012
It’s time to start speech enabling your Windows Phone applications, developers! In...
Date: 11/01/2012
Windows Phone 8 is almost here!! Joe Belfiore introduced Windows Phone 8 to the world in June, 2012....
Date: 10/24/2012
Here at Microsoft we've been busy over the last year adding cool new speech features to a bunch of...
Date: 09/13/2011
Happy 2010! I talked about what we’ve all been up to in 2009 in the Speech group on the Speech Team...
Date: 01/14/2010
Microsoft's Bing for iPhone went live yesterday, and is now available in the iPhone application...
Date: 12/16/2009
Microsoft Exchange 2010 Buzz -- Speech is 1 of 5 key features, according to Mary-Jo Foley from ZDNet
Mary-Jo Foley posted an article on her blog on ZDNet yesterday talking about how the RTM buzz for...
Date: 08/14/2009
I just read a pretty cool post by Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett from HuddledMasses.org where he shows his...
Date: 06/28/2009
One of the cooler parts of my jobs is interacting with customers and partners. One such opportunity...
Date: 05/11/2009
Last night, as 12:01am, Tellme announced their Spring 09 upgrades to their underlying speech...
Date: 04/29/2009
I've been reading a lot of blog posts lately about bloggers using Speech Recognition technology...
Date: 01/05/2009
This morning I read a blog entry on Wired about a new application coming out from a guy named Scott...
Date: 11/26/2008
A reader recently wrote to us here at Microsoft, and asked us if there was a way to disable the...
Date: 11/20/2008
I've got two microphones that I use most of the time. An Andrea SoundMAX SuperBeam 2 element...
Date: 11/07/2008
It’s official. Microsoft’s audio indexing solution (born out of Microsoft Research) is now online as...
Date: 10/31/2008
Many of you know that we've been working on our Windows Speech Recognition Macros utility for a...
Date: 10/23/2008
If you want to start developing on Speech Server 2007, you should probably start off using the...
Date: 10/08/2008
I haven't tried it out personally, but over on the Habitually Good blog, Vaibhav says that Google's...
Date: 09/16/2008
One of the joys of being a parent is helping them learn. I'm very lucky, in that regard, because my...
Date: 09/11/2008
Here's an interesting article on JetBlue's choice of using Microsoft's speech technology over that...
Date: 09/02/2008
Every year in the Fall it's time for me to check out what's new on TV, and decide what, if anything,...
Date: 09/02/2008
I've always wanted a good place to upload all my speech macros that I talk about on my Macro of the...
Date: 08/25/2008
In my morning look at news, I saw this article about why everything isn't already speech enabled....
Date: 08/22/2008
A user wrote in to me via my blog the other day and asked: “Is there a way to control volume...
Date: 08/18/2008
I get feedback from people, from time to time, that they'd like a more efficient way to add items to...
Date: 08/02/2008
Congratulations to Myro Mykhalchuk and his team at Say2Go for winning 1st Prize in Microsoft's 2008...
Date: 07/07/2008
Have you ever wanted to control your media player with your voice? Well now you can! With today’s...
Date: 07/01/2008
I've been posting macros for a few weeks now, and one question that comes up from time to time is,...
Date: 07/01/2008
A common question I get is, "Hey, Rob, How do I make a speech macro application specific?"...
Date: 06/30/2008
Today's macro of the day is a cool trick involving another free tool from Microsoft called Search...
Date: 06/20/2008
Today's macro let's you say things like "Send email to Rob", or "Send email to Rob...
Date: 06/09/2008
Have you ever found yourself giving a presentation about speech recognition and wished you could...
Date: 06/03/2008
Another good request for a macro came in the other day, this time from Brian (Thanks Brian). Here's...
Date: 06/02/2008
Quote of the day from the blogosphere (from Carl Franklin) that caught my eye: "I've started using...
Date: 05/29/2008
Following up the macro of the day from last week, here's "Read That". Instead of inserting...
Date: 05/28/2008
Did you know you could experience Microsoft's Speech Recognition technology in cars? No, I'm not...
Date: 05/23/2008
Now that the WSR Macro tool has been out for a couple weeks, it's clear that people are loving it!...
Date: 05/23/2008
We've received some comments and questions recently from users trying out the new WSR Macros utility...
Date: 05/07/2008
Will DePalo (a Microsoft MVP) just posted two new videos on MSDN that show how to program against...
Date: 04/03/2008
A Windows Speech Recognition user wrote in this week to compliment us on Windows Speech Recognition,...
Date: 11/19/2007
Last weekend, I bought a new XBOX Arcade and hooked it up on the downstairs TV. That makes 2 XBOX...
Date: 11/05/2007
Long Zheng recently interviewed our very own Oliver Scholz about the latest Live Search that now has...
Date: 11/02/2007
I was reading news the other day on my Windows Mobile phone while I was waiting in line for lunch,...
Date: 10/31/2007
Since shipping the speech enabled version of Windows Live Search for Windows Mobile a couple weeks...
Date: 10/31/2007
I just saw a post by Brian Caulfield on Forbes.com asking the question, "What does Windows have that...
Date: 10/28/2007