Rob's Rhapsody
Rob Chambers talks about Speech Recognition, Life at Microsoft inside OSD, and other random thoughts...
Dragon Naturally Speaking version 9
The folks at Nuance have been working on Dragon Naturally Speaking for a long time (well ......
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 07/19/2006
Bill comments on Windows Speech Recognition in Vista
Bill was in South Africa earlier this week. You might have heard about his "80%" comment already....
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 07/14/2006
Wireless Speech Recognition
Here's an interesting blog about wireless speech recognition. I know a couple of the guys at at...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 07/14/2006
PCMag reviews Vista
The latest issue of PC Magazine is out (to subscribers) and it has a great review of Windows Vista...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 04/24/2006
Speech Recognition - Ready for Prime Time?
Jarred Walton posted an accuracy and performance comparison of DNS 8 with Microsoft's Office 2003...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 04/21/2006
Voco uses Microsoft Speech Recognition
One of the neat upcoming remote controls I've been watching is the Voco Voice Commander. It's based...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 04/19/2006
Robocast of Rob's Rhapsody
Hey, check it out. Now I have a podcast of Rob's Rhapsody, thanks to Francis Shanahan's Robocast...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 04/04/2006
Automated podcasting using SAPI and TTS
Francis Shanahan wrote me over the weekend, with a very neat automated podcaster that's he's written...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 04/03/2006
Former Dragon employee comments on Speech Recognition in Windows Vista
It's always nice to hear from customers, especially when we've delighted them with new capabilities...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/28/2006
Windows Vista Speech Recognition - Step by Step Guide
If you're curious about what SR in Vista is like, or why you might be interested in it, check out...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/02/2006
Chris Henley has a nice Screencast Speech Recognition in Windows Vista on his blog
Check it out: https://blogs.technet.com/chenley/archive/2006/02/21/420136.aspx
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/01/2006
Daily Tech talks about SR in Vista
Daily Tech talks about SR in Vista: Voice recognition has gone through serious growing pains over...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/01/2006
Fox News has a blurb about Speech Recognition in Windows Vista
Fox News has a blurb about Speech Recognition in Windows Vista: How about some built-in speech...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/01/2006
Dictating numbers using Speech Recognition in Windows Vista
Some people have been wondering how to properly dictate numbers in Windows Vista. Here's a quick set...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/01/2006
Speech Recognition and its "off" state
Recently we got some feedback from the Vista beta newsgroups about how the recognizer switches...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 02/27/2006
Microphones
We’re curious what microphones you currently use for speech recognition. Let us know, so we can make...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 02/23/2006
Merit Software's Text Talker
This morning I read about another new SAPI 5 based application, called Text Talker, from Merit...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 02/16/2006
Tell Microsoft Flight Simulator what to do!
Terry Gold was good enough to forward me another application that uses Microsoft Speech Recognition...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/25/2006
Sony "Mouse Talk" fusion of Mouse and VoIP Phone
And then there’s this one from Sony.
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/23/2006
Its a mouse, its a phone; no! its both!! - Phoneyworld.com
A friend of mine, Robert Brown, sent me this link about a combination mouse and VoIP phone. I wonder...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/23/2006
Speech Recognition's on the main Vista web-site now ...
Neat. https://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/foreveryone/speech.mspx
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/23/2006
StreetDeck - The coolest Windows based application I've ever run in my car!!
I saw StreetDeck at CES a week and a half ago, and I was impressed. Since then, I’ve been able...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/16/2006
Speak With Me - Control Your Car by Voice
I must have missed this one a while back. Apparently, Ajay Juneja, of SpeakWithMe, has created a...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/16/2006
StargateMobile at CES
I’m on a roll with a theme, here, huh? … I also really liked what I saw at the Stargate Mobile...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/07/2006
StreetDeck at CES
One of the coolest demos I saw at CES was from a company called StreetDeck. These are some of the...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/07/2006
VoiceBox at CES
I stopped by the XM Radio booth this afternoon to take a look at the VoiceBox implementation of XM...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/07/2006
I'll be at CES Thursday and Friday
Have you heard of any cool speech tech that'll be at CES? I'd love to hear from you if you have. I'd...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/04/2006
VoiceBox and XM Radio
A couple days ago, VoiceBox and XM Radio announced a partnership where VoiceBox is going to provide...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/04/2006
Dragon can convert speech into text twice as fast as you can say it?
Here’s what the article says exactly: Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Medical […] can...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/29/2005
Happy Thanksgiving!!
My wife, Kris, sent this to me this morning. I burst out laughing when I watched it....
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/23/2005
Transcription - How important is it to you?
Some people use a feature that’s commonly included as part of a speech recognition product, called...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/21/2005
HomeSeer - Speech activated home automation
HomeSeer also uses Microsoft Speech technologies, both Speech Recognition (SR) and Text to Speech...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/17/2005
Speak4CAD AutoCAD Speech Recognition Software
Here’s another new Microsoft Speech technology based application that was just released in November....
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/17/2005
TextAloud
From NextUp.com: Text-to-Speech software leader NextUp.com (www.NextUp.com) has released version...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/17/2005
Applications that use Microsoft Speech technology?
In a quest to understand how our technology is used by customers, I’d really like to know what...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/17/2005
My blogs in the Seattle PI
Apparently Todd Bishop over at the Seattle PI reads my blog. He linked to my blog entry about Bill...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/17/2005
Speech Recongition in MSDN Magazine, January 2006
Robert Brown from the Speech and Natural Language team wrote a great article on Speech Recognition...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/17/2005
BillG Demo Day
Each quarter Bill Gates has a day set aside to get demos from people around the company on different...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/12/2005
CRN | Microsoft Business Strategy | Microsoft Execs Tout Product Roadmap to Approving Shareholders
In a recent article reported on CRN, Bill talked a little bit about Speech. During his remarks,...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/10/2005
Connecting with the customer
On a different level entirely... :-) Enjoy:...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/09/2005
Speak4CAD -- speech enabling AudoCAD
I found an interesting application tonight. Speak4CAD -- made by Enact Technology. Here's their...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/03/2005
Ford puts XP machine in F-Series pickups
Interesting story on CNET this morning about how Ford has put a full fledged Windows PC into their...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 11/03/2005
ScanSoft changed it's name to Nuance
In case you missed it … ScanSoft, the maker of Dragon Naturally Speaking, changed it’s name to...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/26/2005
Speech Recognition in Vista Beta 2 is almost complete!
Beta 2 is almost complete Speech Recognition in Vista Beta 2 is almost complete. Our developers...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/25/2005
SAPI 5 is 5 years old!!
It's hard to believe, at least for me, that SAPI 5 is 5 years old now. For those of you that don't...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/20/2005
One Voice announces a speech toolkit for Windows XP Media Center Edition
Casey Chesnut, of brains-n-brawn, sent me some mail over the weekend and alerted me to One Voice’s...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/17/2005
That fresh crisp morning air
It’s beautiful outside this morning. I just got to work a few minutes ago, and while I was cruising...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/17/2005
Vista on my carPC
Well, I finally took the plunge. I have build 5235 (a private build) on my carPC now. Speech is...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/10/2005