Comments on: Vista voice recognition instructional video http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060301/3007/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:48:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Chip’s Quips » Blog Archive » Software Spirit of Service http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060301/3007/#comment-74985 Chip’s Quips » Blog Archive » Software Spirit of Service Tue, 09 May 2006 21:32:38 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060301/3007/#comment-74985 [...] TDavid was just talking about voice recognition yesterday and the state of the “art” of software’s understanding of human verbiage. Later, I had to call Qwest because I recently switched back to them for land-line (I never really liked Qwest, but they swear they have improved service, and for a $100 savings per month I’ll let them back up that claim), but my toll-free number was still being billed by my previous carrier. So I call the business customer help line, and of course a speech-recognition engine answers the phone, using the voice of a twenty-something male with slightly over-regulated testosterone. [...] […] TDavid was just talking about voice recognition yesterday and the state of the “art” of software’s understanding of human verbiage. Later, I had to call Qwest because I recently switched back to them for land-line (I never really liked Qwest, but they swear they have improved service, and for a $100 savings per month I’ll let them back up that claim), but my toll-free number was still being billed by my previous carrier. So I call the business customer help line, and of course a speech-recognition engine answers the phone, using the voice of a twenty-something male with slightly over-regulated testosterone. […]

]]> By: Sterling Camden http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060301/3007/#comment-54282 Sterling Camden Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:55:34 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060301/3007/#comment-54282 Speaking of speech recognition, http://www.chipstips.com/microblog/index.php/post/78/ Speaking of speech recognition, http://www.chipstips.com/microblog/index.php/post/78/

]]> By: protected static http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060301/3007/#comment-54264 protected static Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:53:52 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060301/3007/#comment-54264 From what I've read, if you've got an app running on Vista that's specifically speech-enabled, you can easily create an XML dictionary of likely words or phrases that the app will read first before it hits the speech engine's default dictionary. Just like ink-enabled TabletPC apps, this should provide a substantial boost to the recognition rate. I'm really looking forward to it - I'm working on a project that'd be quite cool if I could easily generate phoneme & viseme data on the fly... And through a native API, no less. From what I’ve read, if you’ve got an app running on Vista that’s specifically speech-enabled, you can easily create an XML dictionary of likely words or phrases that the app will read first before it hits the speech engine’s default dictionary. Just like ink-enabled TabletPC apps, this should provide a substantial boost to the recognition rate.

I’m really looking forward to it - I’m working on a project that’d be quite cool if I could easily generate phoneme & viseme data on the fly… And through a native API, no less.

]]> By: Sterling Camden http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060301/3007/#comment-54184 Sterling Camden Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:08:50 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060301/3007/#comment-54184 Yeah, SR could be good for blogging the first rough cut -- spewing out the naked text, then use the mouse and keyboard to give it a bath and some new clothes. I'd give it a try. Yeah, SR could be good for blogging the first rough cut — spewing out the naked text, then use the mouse and keyboard to give it a bath and some new clothes. I’d give it a try.

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