More fun With Microsoft Speech

Here’s some stuff you should check out:

• Dictation Resource Kit (DRK):  This is fantastic if you have a speech application that requires a specialized vocabulary.  For example, say you’re building a product for the medical or legal professions, where there’s a lot of specialized terminology.  You can use this tool to build a language model for your domain that can be used with the speech recognition engine in Windows.  Maybe in a few months I’ll put together a sample and blog about it.
• I’ve been playing a lot with the Bing client on my iPhone, which uses our speech engine in the cloud so you can tell it what you want to search for.  Very *very* cool.  Try it out.  It’s also available on Windows Mobile – actually it was there first, and it’s also excellent.
• TellMe.  This is an astoundingly impressive operation, delivering state-of-the-art IVR phone services (i.e. automated phone applications that work extremely well).  For example, there’s a good chance that when you dial 411 (directory assistance) in the US, it’s a TellMe app that’s answering the phone. 
• The speech macro recorder for Windows is a lot of fun.  Basically, you just fill it with your own custom voice commands so that you can customize the way you control programs with your voice.
• If you’re using speech recognition on Windows and you get a new computer, you don’t need to retrain the new computer to learn your voice.  Just use the profile tool to back-up your profile from your old computer and put it on your new one.

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 06, 2010
  I am as interested in phoneme segmentation now as I was when we discussed it on this blog back on February 22, 2005. Will Microsoft ever support those of us using speech recognition for language learning like you did with SAPI 4 back in '95-98?

• Anonymous
  February 06, 2010
  dude, this is awesome share. my first-time at your blog. you seem very passionate about speech...