Speech Recognition

Microsoft researcher John Platt discusses his enthusiasm for artificial intelligence and machine learning. John is a Microsoft distinguished scientist and deputy managing director of Microsoft Research Redmond who has been working in AI now for 32 years. John tells us about the work done behind…

Bruno Capuano, Friend of the Gallery, shows how fast the Kinect for Windows v2 SDK has been evolving, this time showing off the new Speech Recognition... [#KINECTSDK] Speech recognition now available in SDK V2!“This is preliminary software and/or hardware and APIs are preliminary and subject to…

Taking a breather from Visual Studio Extensions, today our Mobile Monday project shows you how you can build Cortana enabled projects... Integrating Store Apps with Cortana in Windows Phone 8.1... You’ve likely already read about how Cortana will use the power of Bing to deliver personalized,…

As I've said before, I feel that speech is the killer Kinect feature. It makes some things just so much easier and less disruptive. I've quickly found the speech feature of my Xbox One to be one that's hard to live without. During the holidays I accidently tried to control my daughter's TV via a…

Today's Mobile Monday project is a Windows Phone 8 SDK Sample project that shows off something I've not seen highlighted too often, how you can build in voice and speech into your Windows Phone 8 app's. Alarm Clock with voice Commands SampleThis sample demonstrates how to manage an alarm by using…

Speech recognition is likely a key part of any Kinect for Windows SDK application. And while there are a number of examples available, I thought this one distilled it down into an easy to follow, and better yet understand, series of development steps... Speech Recognition for the Kinect, the Easy…

Today's project focuses on the a part of Kinect development that might not be a awe inspiring as augmented reality, games, 3D modeling, NUI's, etc, but in the end is one of the killer features of the Kinect, speech recognition and using it to add communication capabilities to your projects...…

A NESL is a set of libraries for Silverlight developers that allow them to access some really cool features of Windows 7 from their Silverlight applications. Take advantage of sensors like accelerometers, light sensors, compasses, GPS etc. Access content from connected portable devices like…

Chris Smith had a talk at the CodeMash conference in January 2010 titled “Being an Evil Genius with F# and .NET”. Chris created a post about his talk and doing Computer Vision, Speech Recognition, and shooting missiles at people all with F#! Here is a bit of his speech recognition code using…

After deploying Blue&Me for Fiat and Sync for Ford, in-car dialog systems are morphing from cool gadgets that amaze people and sell more cars to integral parts of in-car infotainment. Commute UX raises the bar for the functionality, usability and reliability of these systems. Microsoft Researchs…