Rob's Rhapsody
Rob Chambers talks about Speech Recognition, Life at Microsoft inside OSD, and other random thoughts...
WP8 Voice Commands: Dynamic Phrase Lists … From Azure!
Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been demonstrating various features of the new speech platform...
Date: 11/14/2012
How many lines of code does it take to build a complete WP8 speech app?
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
Windows Phone 8 is here! Start speech enabling your apps…
It’s time to start speech enabling your Windows Phone applications, developers! In...
Date: 11/01/2012
Developers: Coming soon to a phone near you… Windows Phone 8
Windows Phone 8 is almost here!! Joe Belfiore introduced Windows Phone 8 to the world in June, 2012....
Date: 10/24/2012
Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) and Speech Recognition
Here at Microsoft we've been busy over the last year adding cool new speech features to a bunch of...
Date: 09/13/2011
Want to see what you can do with Speech across 3 screens and a cloud?
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
Bing on the iPhone (with Voice Search!)
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
Controlling your PC via PowerShell and Speech Recognition?
I just read a pretty cool post by Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett from HuddledMasses.org where he shows his...
Date: 06/28/2009
Microsoft sponsors the 2009-2010 AVIOS Speech Application Programming Contest
One of the cooler parts of my jobs is interacting with customers and partners. One such opportunity...
Date: 05/11/2009
TellMe Rolls Out Better Speech Recognition And An Almost-Sexy New Voice Called Zira
Last night, as 12:01am, Tellme announced their Spring 09 upgrades to their underlying speech...
Date: 04/29/2009
Using Windows Speech Recognition to blog?
I've been reading a lot of blog posts lately about bloggers using Speech Recognition technology...
Date: 01/05/2009
Cannon camera + EOS Utility + ShutterVoice = Hands-free photography?
This morning I read a blog entry on Wired about a new application coming out from a guy named Scott...
Date: 11/26/2008
Macro of the Day: Disable Cap [textInDocument]
A reader recently wrote to us here at Microsoft, and asked us if there was a way to disable the...
Date: 11/20/2008
Macro of the Day: Microphone Control
I've got two microphones that I use most of the time. An Andrea SoundMAX SuperBeam 2 element...
Date: 11/07/2008
WA State Deploys Microsoft Audio Indexing Solution
It’s official. Microsoft’s audio indexing solution (born out of Microsoft Research) is now online as...
Date: 10/31/2008
A user authored guide to macros: WSRMacros: The User Guide
Many of you know that we've been working on our Windows Speech Recognition Macros utility for a...
Date: 10/23/2008
Speech Server 2007 Resources
If you want to start developing on Speech Server 2007, you should probably start off using the...
Date: 10/08/2008
Google Chrome doesn't support Speech Recognition in Vista? IE and Firefox do... Hmmm...
I haven't tried it out personally, but over on the Habitually Good blog, Vaibhav says that Google's...
Date: 09/16/2008
Macro of the Day: Math Test!
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
JetBlue chooses Microsoft speech recognition technology over Nuance
Here's an interesting article on JetBlue's choice of using Microsoft's speech technology over that...
Date: 09/02/2008
Macro of the Day: Search Tivo for That!
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
WSRMacros - A new MSDN Code Gallery for Speech Macros
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
Interesting article about Nuance on CNET: Wonder why everything isn't speech controlled?
In my morning look at news, I saw this article about why everything isn't already speech enabled....
Date: 08/22/2008
Macro of the Day: Mute the speakers!
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
Speech Macro of the Day: Speech Dictionary
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
Say2Go awarded 1st Prize in ISV/Software Solutions in Microsoft's 2008 Partner Contest
Congratulations to Myro Mykhalchuk and his team at Say2Go for winning 1st Prize in Microsoft's 2008...
Date: 07/07/2008
Macro of the Day: Windows Media Player
Have you ever wanted to control your media player with your voice? Well now you can! With today’s...
Date: 07/01/2008
Using Macros of the Day: A Step by Step Guide
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
Making a Speech macro Application Specific
A common question I get is, "Hey, Rob, How do I make a speech macro application specific?"...
Date: 06/30/2008
Macro of the Day: Say what you want and get it! (inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
Today's macro of the day is a cool trick involving another free tool from Microsoft called Search...
Date: 06/20/2008
Macro of the Day: Send Email to [OutlookContact]
Today's macro let's you say things like "Send email to Rob", or "Send email to Rob...
Date: 06/09/2008
Macro of the day: Next Slide
Have you ever found yourself giving a presentation about speech recognition and wished you could...
Date: 06/03/2008
Macro of the Day: Tell me the weather forecast for Redmond
Another good request for a macro came in the other day, this time from Brian (Thanks Brian). Here's...
Date: 06/02/2008
"I've started using the speech recognition features and I'm blown away!"
Quote of the day from the blogosphere (from Carl Franklin) that caught my eye: "I've started using...
Date: 05/29/2008
Macro of the Day: Read that
Following up the macro of the day from last week, here's "Read That". Instead of inserting...
Date: 05/28/2008
Microsoft Speech Powered Azentek Wins International Telematics Award for Best Aftermarket Device
Did you know you could experience Microsoft's Speech Recognition technology in cars? No, I'm not...
Date: 05/23/2008
WSR Macro of the Day 2008.05.23: "Symbol That"
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
Sending Keys using custom WSRMacros
We've received some comments and questions recently from users trying out the new WSR Macros utility...
Date: 05/07/2008
Two new Videos on Speech Recognition Development
Will DePalo (a Microsoft MVP) just posted two new videos on MSDN that show how to program against...
Date: 04/03/2008
Speech Macros, Typing Mode and spelling Mode in Windows Speech Recognition
A Windows Speech Recognition user wrote in this week to compliment us on Windows Speech Recognition,...
Date: 11/19/2007
Pac-Man Championship Edition
Last weekend, I bought a new XBOX Arcade and hooked it up on the downstairs TV. That makes 2 XBOX...
Date: 11/05/2007
Oliver's interview about Live Search now with Speech Recognition
Long Zheng recently interviewed our very own Oliver Scholz about the latest Live Search that now has...
Date: 11/02/2007
Comparing Speech Recognition in Vista vs Apple OS X
I was reading news the other day on my Windows Mobile phone while I was waiting in line for lunch,...
Date: 10/31/2007
Windows Live Search vs Google Maps Mobile
Since shipping the speech enabled version of Windows Live Search for Windows Mobile a couple weeks...
Date: 10/31/2007
What does Windows have that OS X doesn't? -- Full-featured voice recognition
I just saw a post by Brian Caulfield on Forbes.com asking the question, "What does Windows have that...
Date: 10/28/2007