Rob's Rhapsody Alert - 2 New Programming Videos

 

 Rob Chambers (Speech Program Manager for Microsoft) has posted a notice in his Rob's Rhapsody blog about two new videos in MSDN.
They are:

"How Do I: Get Started with Speech Recognition?
Will Depalo, Microsoft MVP, "explains the runtime and development requirements for doing speech development natively with Visual C++.
In addition he discusses create grammar files and how to compile them."

"How Do I: Use Speech Recognition in an Application?
Will explains how to use speech recognition in the applications that you build with Visual C++ so that your users can control them with their voice.
In addition, he explains how to set up the development environment and how to use the Platform SDK's grammar compiler."

 The MSDN pages offer video and audio downloads in all formats as well as embedded Silverlight videos.

 

A terrific interview with Rob Chambers

 

If you haven't seen the video where Rob Chambers is interviewed by Dr.Crounse and demonstrates Vista's SR strength, check it out. In the video, Rob does some font color adjustments, web surfing, shows a mouse grid in action that works very well, dictates a little (even adds word to the lexicon's vocabulary) and clearly demonstrates that Vista's speech recognition is about as user friendly and on the money as we could possibly ask for!

Of course, to reap the real benefits of speech recognition, you should be using it hands free! (Why we call it wireless speech recognition.. ? :-)

We have to ask:
When will the media learn it's not: "voice recognition" .. ?
Maybe when Microsoft puts up a large banner somewhere that says:
"Attention! It's not "voice" recognition - get it right.. Please!"

Nonetheless, it's terrific to see demo's like this. Vista's speech recognition needs to be evangelized, to everyone, everywhere.
It's making Bill's prediction reality.

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