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The Mobile and Embedded Devices Conference (MEDC) is taking place in Vegas next week, and I thought I'd post a little fun here to get things going.
Mel Sampat stopped by to demo some fancy-schmancy stuff in Windows Mobile 6.0. There's more going on now for both devs and users.
One of the nicer things about 6.0, at least from a dev standpoint, is that the .NET CF 2.0 and SQL Server Compact Edition 2.0 both ship in ROM, meaning you can deploy your nice little apps without having to deploy the runtime as well. That made me happy
In the video, you'll get to see some of what's new with Pocket Outlook, an experimental managed implementation of voice recognition APIs, and more.
It's because of stuff like that (managed voice recognition APIs?)
Chadk wrote:That expense program is cool!
Can the voice application not run on the s620 smartphone, because of low processor speed? Or was it just installed not installed on that smartphone yet, but could run on it.
erik_ wrote:Can the voice application not run on the s620 smartphone, because of low processor speed? Or was it just installed not installed on that smartphone yet, but could run on it.
littleguru wrote:Is the Excalibur + Windows Mobile 6.0 already available? I have looked at different vendors and they seem only to sell it with Windows Mobile 5.0.
littleguru wrote:
Chadk wrote: That expense program is cool!
I would also like to kiss this little device
Great stuff! Is the source somewhere available? Is this speech recognition thing also coming to the phone or is it only for the "larger" devices? I'm wondering, because in the video another device than the phone is used!
melsam [MS] wrote:
littleguru wrote:
Chadk wrote: That expense program is cool!
I would also like to kiss this little device
Great stuff! Is the source somewhere available? Is this speech recognition thing also coming to the phone or is it only for the "larger" devices? I'm wondering, because in the video another device than the phone is used!
Unfortunately the source isn't available because the speech libraries themselves aren't publicly available yet. From a programming perspective, the code is very simple - just like using any other managed classes from C# or VB.NET.
Even though we don't have anything that developers can start playing with right now, I assure you that speech is a very important piece of our mobile strategy. Take a look at this story about some cool things we're doing with TellMe (a recent MSFT aquisition):
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/microsofts-tellme-launches-three-new-mobile-search-services/4721/
Developers will see great speech support they can leverage in their mobile applications soon. Thanks for your patience.
-Mel
Yes, please release mobile APIs for text-to-speech and voice recognition as soon as possible, even if not at the same time.
MS Voice Command is nice, but could do SO much more!