Rob's Rhapsody
Rob Chambers talks about Speech Recognition, Life at Microsoft inside OSD, and other random thoughts...
Bill Gates talks about Speech Recognition -- again!
Bill Gates has always been a big advocate of Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis inside and...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/19/2007
How fast can you type? How fast can you speak?
I was reading Tim Long's recent post on Windows Vista Speech Recognition, and it piqued my...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/17/2007
Live Search for Windows Mobile -- Now with Speech Recognition!!
The press release just went live. The web site is online. And the details are all spelled out....
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/16/2007
Lifehack.org calls speech recognition in Windows Vista "pretty good"
From the article: "Voice recognition software has been around for a long time, but it’s...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/11/2007
Vista's Windows Speech Recognition has the "cool factor so characteristic of Apple products"
It's always fun to hear comments about what we're working so hard on here at Microsoft in the Speech...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 10/03/2007
Project Gotham 4 (PGR4) set to release October 2nd, 2007!
It's not all about Speech Recognition here at Rob's Rhapsody. Back in 2005, I stood in line for over...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 09/17/2007
A new Microsoft Speech Blog
The Speech Components Group (the team I work on) just created a new team blog for all things Speech...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 09/04/2007
What's Rob been up to lately?
I just realized that I've really started to slack off on posting on my blog lately and I haven't...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 06/11/2007
Windows Speech Recognition - ExactMatchOverPartialMatch
A user wrote in over the weekend with a question about how to automatically choose an item when...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 05/07/2007
Introducing a new speech recognition blogger
If you've used Windows Speech Recognition in Windows Vista you've undoubtedly used Eric Brown's...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 05/04/2007
"Speech recognition holds promise", says IDC analyst
In a recent betanews article Scott Fulton interviewed IDC Analyst David Daoud about the PC industry....
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 05/03/2007
SpeechSaver -- kinda like a screen saver, but for speech recognition's listening state
I was talking to a customer recently, Greg Duncan, and one of the things that he came up was an idea...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 04/28/2007
SpeechTEK 2007 in NY
SpeechTEK is always an interesting convention for those that are interested in speech technologies....
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 04/24/2007
Hillary Duff's wish list includes speech recognition
I never thought I'd actually post something about Hillary Duff. It's not that I don't like her, or...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 04/23/2007
Windows Speech Recognition in Vista: Dictation Everywhere
Here's a question from a reader about the Dictation Everywhere feature in Windows Speech Recognition...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 04/23/2007
"The Vista Show" podcast talks about Vista's Windows Speech Recognition
The Vista Show is a podcast that broadcasts a weekly show in podcast format each week from...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 04/17/2007
My new scooter
I posted about a month ago that I was considering purchasing an electric scooter. I did, in fact,...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 04/17/2007
Extreme Tech reviews Windows Speech Recognition
Another good reivew of Windows Speech Recognition in Windows Vista: "If you have Windows Vista, even...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 04/12/2007
Keeping speech grammars up-to-date
I've been having a good conversation with some guys that are working on making it easier to program...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/29/2007
Dee Jay: A voice-controlled juke box for Windows Vista
I stumbled across a new app on the net that uses the cool new recognition platform and recognizer...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/20/2007
Getting to know Tellme
As you probably know by now, Microsoft announced our intentions on acquiring Tellme Networks a...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/16/2007
Microsoft to Acquire Tellme
You've read the rumors. You've heard the speculation. Well ... It's true. Today, Microsoft announced...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/14/2007
Interesting Microsoft Teleconference later today at 9:30 am PDT
You might be interested in a Microsoft teleconference scheduled at 9:30 PDT today, where "Executives...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/14/2007
Windows Speech Recognition - Correction Panel Commands
As part of the "Every single thing WSR is listening for" series, here's a list of correction panel...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/12/2007
Windows Speech Recognition: Dictation commands
As part of the "Every single thing WSR listens for" series, here's a list of dictation commands:...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/12/2007
Windows Speech Recognition: General commands
As part of the "Every single thing WSR is listening for" series, here's a list of general commands....
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/12/2007
Windows Speech Recognition in Vista: Every single thing WSR is listening for
About a year ago I put together a list of every single thing Windows Speech Recognition in Windows...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/12/2007
TechRepublic article on Speech Recognition in Windows Vista
Deb Shinder just posted a new article up on TechRepublic about Speech Recognition in Windows Vista....
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/08/2007
A WSR First: CNET microphone review tests new Logitech microphone using Windows Speech Recognition
Vista's been out just over 1 month now, and here's the first microphone review I've seen that tests...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/07/2007
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista
I know a lot of developers that have been waiting for this one. Yesterday, Microsoft announced the...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/07/2007
Oliver Scholz does a demo of Windows Speech Recognition on on10.net
Oliver's going to become a celebrity here pretty soon with as many demos as he's been doing showing...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/05/2007
Telling your computer what to do -- Another post by David Pogue of the NYT
Well ... I must say that I didn't expect David Pogue to love Windows Speech Recognition as much as...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 03/01/2007
Installing additional speech recognizer languages...
Here's a question that I get from time to time... Q: How do I install speech recognition for a...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 02/20/2007
Transfering profiles programatically
Last week I wrote about how to transfer profiles using the Easy Transfer Wizard. That generated some...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 02/20/2007
Extending Windows Speech Recognition
I've blogged about how to find the Speech APIs on MSDN before, but have you wondered if anybody is...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 02/20/2007
Transferring Windows Speech Recognition profiles from one machine to another
Today a customer wrote in and asked: "I was wondering if you knew if Vista stores its data files of...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 02/15/2007
Windows Speech Recognition -- Where's the API documentation?!
I get a lot of email from customers every day. And some days I end up answering the same questions...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 02/13/2007
Live Search for Windows Mobile walk-thru
Just found this walk-thru of Live Search for Windows mobile that I blogged about this morning....
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 02/12/2007
Microsoft releases Live Search for Windows Mobile (and also on Java)
I recently met a bunch of great guys (and gals) over in Search-land here at Microsoft that are...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 02/12/2007
Cool new Windows Speech Recognition Video
There seem to be a lot of videos of Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) floating around the internet...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 02/09/2007
Word 2007 + Windows Speech Recognition
If you're using Windows Speech Recognition in Windows Vista, and you're also using Microsoft Word...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 02/07/2007
Windows Speech Recognition - A little known security "feature"
We take security seriously here at Microsoft. For example, every single developer, program manager,...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 02/06/2007
Windows Speech Recognition: Listening to users is the key at Microsoft
Recently the Accessibility team approached me and asked if I'd be interested in providing an essay...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/30/2007
David Pogue says (on NPR) his favorite feature in Vista is Windows Speech Recognition
I know David Pogue really likes Windows Speech Recognition, but today he actually called it out as...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/29/2007
Experiencing a "Wow" moment with Windows Speech Recognition
Reading customer comments on Windows Vista's Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) is always fun. I love...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/29/2007
Chicago Sun-Times says: Windows Speech Recognition is one of "Vista's true superstar features"
Today, Andy Ihnatko published an article on Vista called "Vista brightens Windows" in the Chicago...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/25/2007
Using Windows Speech Recognition for temporary disabilities
One of the very interesting uses of Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) with Windows Vista will...
Author: Rob Chambers Date: 01/24/2007