Rob's Rhapsody
Rob Chambers talks about Speech Recognition, Life at Microsoft inside OSD, and other random thoughts...
speak4CAD is preparing a Vista version of their software
I've blogged about speak4CAD before, but apparently they're making a new version that is compatible...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/23/2007
Windows Vista Accessibility Tutorials -- including Windows Speech Recognition
In addition to the demos recently put up on the Accessiblity web site, there are also tutorials that...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/22/2007
Windows Speech Recognition Demo now online on Microsoft.com
As part of the overall effort to document all the features of Windows Vista that might be useful to...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/22/2007
Are you a Mac user? You can still try Windows Speech Recognition
I know there are some people out there that prefer the Mac to the PC. And I know many of them that...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/19/2007
Rob Sinclair featured in IEEE Spectrum
Rob Sinclair, Director of the Accessibility Technology Group, is a great guy that I get to work with...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/19/2007
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite Windows Vista Review of Windows Speech Recognition
As I'm sure most of you probably already know, Paul Thurrott runs a really cool website, called Paul...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/05/2007
Window Clippings 1.2 by Kenny Kerr
Most of the time I blog about Windows Speech related things, but today I found a really neat utility...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/04/2007
Usenet groups
Keeping up to date on news and newsgroups is infinitely easier than it was just a few years ago...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 12/26/2006
David Pogue says Windows Speech Recognition is "beautifully designed"
David Pogue had something nice to say about Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) in this morning’s NY...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 12/14/2006
My experience with Zune
I've been reading a lot of news on the Zune lately, but I haven't weighed in on my experience yet....
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 12/13/2006
Windows Speech Recognition Screencast -- In French!
There have been quite a few screen casts of Windows Speech Recognition making there way around the...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 12/11/2006
My Exposé supports Windows Speech Recognition
Simon Ferguel just released an update to his My Exposé application (similar to Exposé on the Mac)....
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 12/07/2006
Accuracy out of the box
We've really tried to make the Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) experience great, right out of the...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/17/2006
The Potential of Windows Vista Accessibility
jrfree from Florida just blogged yesterday about the potential of Windows Vista Accessibility. When...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/17/2006
Are you talking to me?
Dr. Bill Crounse, Director of Healthcare here at Microsoft, interviewed me about Windows Speech...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/14/2006
Vista gets to grips with speech recognition
Here’s a really positive article on Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) in Windows Vista … Some of the...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/02/2006
Movie Maker and Windows Speech Recognition
Michael Patten from the PIX team just published a really cool video up on soapbox and the PIX team...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/23/2006
Windows Vista Community web site: WSR article by Derek Torres
Check it out: https://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/community/speechrecognition.mspx
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/23/2006
Windows Speech Recognition and User Access Control
Yeah, yeah... Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) is great and all, but what about those pesky security...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/20/2006
Hands on training for Vista SR in Washington state
Karl Barksdale wrote to me earlier in the week about the great success he had with Vista SR at "THE...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/19/2006
jkOnTheRun demos Vista, including Windows Speech Recognition (WSR)
jkOnTheRun is a pretty neat blog (actually in CNET's Blog 100) that keeps track of all things...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/19/2006
Windows Speech Recognition Tutorial requires 1024x768 minimum to run
This morning there were a few blogs I caught via Technorati on the fact that Vista's Windows Speech...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/17/2006
CBS News: Voice Recognition Put To Test
Larry Magid did an article on speech recognition last weekend on CBS News. In the article he talked...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/04/2006
Windows Vista: Eye Candy or Functionality
In an interesting blog posting on Windows Vista discussing the answer to the question, is Windows...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/04/2006
Geekzone 2006
A blogger (Tim Haines) from New Zealand recently wrote about a demo he saw of Windows Speech...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 09/19/2006
Larry Magid: Vista's voice feature not bad
Larry Magid wrote an article that I just read on Mercury News on Vista's new Windows Speech...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 09/18/2006
Command and Control versus Dictation
Some folks over at Pronexus recently asked the question: Will people use speech in Vista? [I think...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 09/11/2006
Using Vista: Controlling your computer using voice only
One of the things I do every day is read what users are saying about Windows Speech Recognition in...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 09/11/2006
Interview with Oliver Scholz
A few days ago, Long Zheng posted an interview with our very own, Oliver Scholz, Program Manager for...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 09/07/2006
Running Windows Speech Recognition on a MacBook Pro
After posting yesterday about a user comparing Apple's speech recognition with Windows Speech...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 09/06/2006
OS X Tiger's SR vs. Windows Speech Recognition in Windows Vista
This weekend I read a short blurb on a customer blog that talked about Vista's Windows Speech...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 09/05/2006
The Inquirer says: Microsoft Vista to silence IBM ViaVoice, Nuance
Fernando Cassia wrote an article for the Inquirer today that basically says he thinks Windows...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 08/31/2006
Seattle Times: Vista from an accessible view
This morning's Seattle Times had an article about the great work we've been doing in Windows Vista...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 08/30/2006
Microsoft Anna - The new TTS voice in Vista
Since I posted yesterday, I've gotten some questions about the TTS engines that Microsoft includes...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 08/29/2006
Loquendo TTS engines
I was meeting with a customer last week talking about all the great new enhancements to Windows...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 08/28/2006
Blogging with a voice recorder
I came across an interesting blog this weekend. I've seen it once before, but now that I've seen it...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 08/28/2006
CNET video: StreetDeck in a Scion
Here's a video of a decked out Scion that has an integrated Windows XP computer running StreetDeck...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 08/25/2006
ModelTalker
I was just chatting with Josh Kennedy, a Microsoft speech user, tonight on Skype, and he told me...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 08/20/2006
Vista Speech Recognition screencast: It works!
Long Zheng recently made a really nice screen capture and demonstrated some of the cool new features...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 08/17/2006
Accessibility is not just for people with disabilities
Raymond Chen, wrote some good thoughts about accessibility and how it relates to people with...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 08/17/2006
Windows Live Writer
I've been using Windows Live Writer for a couple weeks, and now Microsoft has finally made it...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 08/17/2006
SpeechTEK Windows Speech Recognition Demo -- Flawless
I just got off the stage here at SpeechTEK... Wow, that was cool! The demo went almost flawlessly. 8...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 08/08/2006
SpeechTEK is only 1 week away!
SpeechTEK is a twice a year gathering for anyone, and everyone, in the speech industry to get...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 08/01/2006
Larry Osterman -- Wait! That was my bug?
Larry, a long time Microsoft blogger, and key member of the audio team, speaks out about the root...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 07/31/2006
FAM: Vista SR Demo failure -- And now you know the rest of the story ...
As I posted yesterday, I got a chance to check out the machine that Shanen used for the Financial...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 07/29/2006
Windows Speech Recognition demo in Microsoft's Financial Analysts Meeting
Yesterday I had the day off. I went to the Woodland park Zoo with my son, Nicholas, with his summer...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 07/28/2006
DigiTools - The importance of Speech Recognition in Education
Karl Barksdale is an advocate for bettering our educational system in many ways here in the US. One...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 07/20/2006