Rob's Speech Stuff
RSS reader using SAPI
Michael Carbenay's built an RSS client on the .Net runtime 1.1, using COM interop to have SAPI read...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 08/24/2005
Speech chess
Valentin Iliescu's written a WinFX chess application that you can play by speaking to it. Very nice....
Author: RobertBrown Date: 08/24/2005
Follow-up to speech processing of audio files
I was asked some questions about my Speech processing of audio files post. Jonathan Tregear asks "Is...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 08/04/2005
Using SAPI with C#
Want to use SAPI from C#? Take a look at Matt Harrington's article about using SAPI from C# to do...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 08/04/2005
Which SDK gives me access to the System.Speech namespace?
Josh posted: "I installed the Speech SDK v 5.1 but don't have access to the System.Speech.Synthesis...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 07/20/2005
Speech processing of audio files
There are a couple of FAQs I often hear about using speech with audio files: How do I recognize...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 07/20/2005
SAPI developer survey
Do you use SAPI? Have you ever considered using it? We're surveying SAPI developers and we'd like...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 07/14/2005
Speech recognition of interviews & videos
Jonathan Tregear recently posted some comments/questions on speech recognition of interviews (in...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 07/14/2005
Another speech blogger
Chris Schindler from the Speech Server team started his blog yesterday! Today's speech API tidbit:...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 07/13/2005
XML from previous speech samples
The last few samples I've posted have used APIs to construct the input to the speech engines. Under...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 07/01/2005
Speech synthesis example
The last couple of posts have dealt with recognition. The other half of speech is synthesis. The...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 06/30/2005
Speech grammars example
I figured it's about time for another example. A lot of scenarios require the speech recognizer to...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 06/30/2005
Speech sample in VB.NET
Here's a small sample showing how to use the new Speech API from VB.NET. I'm running VS 2005 beta 2,...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 06/14/2005
Pssstt… wanna job?
If you’re an experienced developer with great skills in C++ and C# and you're interested in joining...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 06/07/2005
Another MS speech blogger
Jay Waltmunson's started blogging about text-to-speech https://blogs.msdn.com/texttospeech/
Author: RobertBrown Date: 06/06/2005
Paul Ballard's TTS post
Paul's written a nice post about his use of the new speech API to do synthesis. Thanks Paul. /Rob
Author: RobertBrown Date: 05/31/2005
Speech interview on Channel 9
Channel 9 just posted an interview with me. Some links to stuff I talk about: The new speech API I...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 05/28/2005
Speech API beta RC work-arounds
Summarising a few issues/questions that were discussed in newsgroups: Q: A sample app would be...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 05/26/2005
New managed Speech API
I heartily announce that our new managed Speech API is in the Avalon & Indigo Beta 1 RC! With...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 05/23/2005
Speech Server 2004 R2 launches today
This new version performs even better, is even flexible, and also introduces two new languages: U.S....
Author: RobertBrown Date: 05/23/2005
Installing Mike and Mary TTS voices
A few weeks ago there was a question in the microsoft.public.speech_tech newsgroup that amounted to...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 04/21/2005
smiles
Casey, I'm glad we made you smile. Alas, this version of GetPron is just for Speech Server - but...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 03/19/2005
GetPron utility for Speech Server
I pointed to this utility in a previous post. If you didn't click on the link in that post you...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 03/18/2005
Text-to-speech; synthesized podcasts
People often ask me what Microsoft's doing with text-to-speech voice development. If you're...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 03/18/2005
New utilities for Speech Server development
If you're currently building apps for Speech Server (or investigating doing so) with the Speech...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 03/08/2005
More on TTS navigation
Whew! What a week! Finally got back to my blog. :-) My answer to Sushant’s question is pretty long,...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 03/04/2005
TTS navigation
Haha. Sushant, this is a fascinating problem. SAPI has some inherent TTS navigation capabilities,...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 02/27/2005
Text Navigation
Sushant, sorry I missed your comment. I’ve re-posted it on your behalf – hope you don’t mind. Can...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 02/25/2005
Choosing speech API features
James makes a good point that limiting API features to known examples of applications potentially...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 02/24/2005
Speech platforms
Since a few different speech technologies were mentioned in the comments, I thought it might be...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 02/22/2005
Phoneme segmentation
In a recent comment, James Salsman wrote “SAPI 4.0a had phoneme segmentation” and he asks that we...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 02/22/2005
Thoughts on speech API topics
I've been chatting with quite a few people on the team this week about what categories of posts...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 02/12/2005
about me
Like the title says, my name's Robert Brown. I'm a Program Manager at Microsoft, working on speech...
Author: RobertBrown Date: 02/08/2005