A new Microsoft Speech Blog

 

Rob Chambers has blogged about a handy new Microsoft blog, for members of his Speech Components Group.

Rob says: "This is the spot that people in my team that don't have their own blog will answer questions we get from the community, and where we'll let you all know about the neat new things our team is working on".

Check it out: http://blogs.msdn.com/speech/

There are already a few posts from Mike Plumpe; including how developed applications can work on both XP & Vista, using the 5.1 subset of SAPI.

Cool!

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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Great videos for learning Vista's speech recognition, from Dan Newman

 

Dan Newman, author of several books and how-to videos for the former Dragon speech recognition application has composed some very, very nice videos on his new website, http://www.talktowindows.net.

If you're a new user of the superb speech recognition in Vista, or just want som fast, easy_to_use training.. check out Dan's videos.

They're terrific.

PS: Hopefully you'll be using a wireless headset, so you'll have a terrific wireless speech recognition experience!