Neowin News Feed for: Speech

Google Meet now offers Speech translation in Android and iOS Applications

Sanket Mungase — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:44:02 +0000

Google Meet is making it easier to communicate by eliminating language barriers with its new Meet Translate upgrade. Read more...

Two new dialects of Inuktut language now available in Microsoft Translator

Fiza Ali — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:46:01 +0000

Microsoft reflects its commitment towards breaking the language barrier and ensuring that endangered languages are preserved by adding Inuinnaqtun and Romanized Inuktitut to its list of languages. Read more...

Save 15% off a lifetime subscription to Orai Personal Ai Speech Coach

Neowin Deals — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 15:00:01 +0000

Sound more confident, save valuable time in meetings, and leave a better impression on your customers with 4-week modules and instant speech feedback, or check out the alternative deal. Read more...

Sundar Pichai's speech to Congress released ahead of event, denies political bias

Paul Hill — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 01:56:01 +0000

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, is due to go before Congress on Tuesday. The speech that he is set to deliver has already been published so you'll be able to read it in advance of the event itself. Read more...

Microsoft makes history: human-like speech recognition achieved

Chris Schroeder — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:48:01 +0000

The team over at Microsoft that works on speech recognition software have bested their own efforts, making history in the process, by achieving human-level understanding with speech recognition. Read more...

Google's DeepMind learns to reproduce human speech, tricks us into starting robot apocalypse

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:30:01 +0000

Google's DeepMind division is famous for its artificial intelligence work. Now the team has developed a new way of creating speech, that's better and more realistic sounding that everything else. Read more...

VoiceGrid Nation: Another nail in privacy's coffin?

Tyler Holman — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 08:15:09 +0000

A new Russian-developed software system called VoiceGrid Nation can identify a person in a matter of seconds, using only their voice matched against a massive database of recordings, or voice-prints. Read more...

Microsoft talks up next-generation speech engine

Brody McKee — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:45:21 +0000

By now, most of us have picked up one of the many touch-screen phones available on the market. Some of the luckier ones may even have a tablet, slate or an iPad. Yes, touch has... Read more...

Amazon to allow disabling of Kindle 2 text-to-speech

Matthew Hopson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:22:27 +0000

Amazon is to allow rights-holders to choose to disable the text-to-speech feature of the Kindle 2 e-book reader on a title by title basis, after the company received criticism that the feature would help Amazon... Read more...

China censors Obama's speech on TV and web

Brad Sams — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:44:40 +0000

China has always been known for censoring its media but apparently it will also censor live speeches as well. The inauguration of President Obama was broadcast in China but was censored by the government.... Read more...

Bill Gates last public speech as Microsoft Chairman Overview

Tom Warren — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:04:30 +0000

Bill Gates launched Tech-ed Developers in Orlando, Florida today by announcing this was his last public speech as a full time employee (FTE) in his role of Microsoft Chairman. He will now transition to a... Read more...

Speech @ Microsoft Blog Online

Steven Parker — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:41:49 +0000

The team responsible for incorporating speech technology into Windows Vista, among other products, has a new blog called Speech @ Microsoft. Their blog started just this month and inaugural posts cover such topics as... Read more...

Google's Speech Interface Patent, Voice Search Anyone?

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:07:23 +0000

Google has filed United States Patent #7,027,987, which details voice interface for a search engine. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has his name on the patent, along with other Google employees and inventors Alexander Mark Franz,... Read more...

Vista Speech Recognition Hole

Tom Warren — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:25:46 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed an issue with the Windows Vista Speech Recognition feature. An issue has been identified publicly where an attacker could use the speech recognition capability of Windows Vista to cause the system to... Read more...

Xbox 360 recognises Fonix Speech

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:21:42 +0000

Fonix Speech, the company responsible for the technology that allows Xbox developers to employ voice recognition in their games, has announced that it will be continuing in this role on the next-generation Xbox 360. ... Read more...

Opera Announces Real-Time Speech Technology

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:29:24 +0000

Opera Software's R&D department today announced the discovery of a new technology dubbed 'Opera SoundWave' - a platform-independent speech solution for short- and medium-range interpersonal communication. Based on open standards, Opera's patent-pending P2P speech technology... Read more...

Web Server Takedown Called Speech Threat

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:52:48 +0000

Devin Theriot-Orr, a member a feisty group of reporter-activists called Indymedia, was surprised when two FBI agents showed up at his Seattle law office, saying the visit was a "courtesy call" on behalf of Swiss... Read more...

Microsoft Launches Speech Server 2004

Tom Warren — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:04:01 +0000

Launch Will Revolutionize Speech Industry: Customers Reap Business Value Deploying Microsoft-Based Speech Applications; Partners Create Winning Microsoft Speech Server Solutions; Developers Can Speech-Enable Web Applications Quickly and Easily Microsoft Corp. today... Read more...

Microsoft To Ship Windows Speech Server In Spring

Tom Warren — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 02:28:10 +0000

Least next week's IBM-sponsored EclipseCon show in Anaheim, Calif., steal Microsoft's thunder, the Redmond, Wash.-based vendor Friday shed light on some news that can be expected at a trio of developer conferences to be held... Read more...

Adoption of Microsoft Speech Technologies Gains Momentum

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:13:32 +0000

REDMOND, Wash. -- Dec. 2, 2003 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced new features and functionalities in the most recent beta versions of Microsoft® Speech Server and the Microsoft Speech Application Software Development Kit (SASDK). Together,... Read more...

Microsoft Speech Application SDK Version 1.0 Beta 4

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:09:02 +0000

Overview The Microsoft Speech Application Software Development Kit (SASDK) enables Web developers to create, debug and deploy speech-enabled ASP.NET Web applications designed for devices ranging from telephones to Windows Mobile™-based devices and desktop PCs.... Read more...

Microsoft Speech Server Beta Program

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:31:00 +0000

The Beta Program provides enterprise companies with the opportunity to develop speech applications using the beta version of Microsoft Speech Server. Participants may choose to either work with one of our qualified development partners or... Read more...

Microsoft Speech Application SDK Version 1.0 Beta 3

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 08:55:14 +0000

The Microsoft Speech Application Software Development Kit (SASDK) enables Web developers to create, debug and deploy speech-enabled ASP.NET Web applications designed for devices ranging from telephones to Windows Mobile™-based devices and desktop PCs. ... Read more...

Microsoft Speech Technologies Enable Enterprise Competitive

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:21:06 +0000

Microsoft Corp. today announced several key milestones for bringing speech technology to the mainstream including the first public beta release of the highly anticipated Microsoft® Speech Server, a Windows Server System (TM) , and the... Read more...

Web speech effort gets Microsoft boost

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:30:07 +0000

Microsoft is making a double-barreled effort to trigger new action on a flagging Web speech specification. The software titan has commissioned demonstrations of its toolkit for building voice-powered Web applications, while a Microsoft-backed group responsible... Read more...

Microsoft .NET Speech SDK Version 1.0 Beta 2

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:19:08 +0000

Quick Info Download Size: 1 KB - 404097 KB - Date Published: 3/24/2003 - Version: Beta2 Overview Microsoft® .NET Speech SDK is a developer's kit for adding speech interfaces... Read more...

Europeans Outlaw Net Hate Speech

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 09 Nov 2002 15:25:04 +0000

The Council of Europe has adopted a measure that would criminalize Internet hate speech, including hyperlinks to pages that contain offensive content. The provision, which was passed by the council's decision-making body... Read more...

No free speech for games

Marcel Klum — Thu, 02 May 2002 09:30:39 +0000

Saw this interesting bit on Gamers.nl. Games aren't protected by the first amendment, but junk faxes are. What's the deal? Pop quiz: What's the difference between Jason from the... Read more...

'Phantom Menace' Typing Just A Microsoft Speech Feature

Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:51:50 +0000

Thanks cream for the heads up. Random words and characters mysteriously appearing on the screens of some Windows XP and Office XP users are not the work of phantom hackers or a sign... Read more...

Bill Gates Keynote Speech @ VSLive! in San Francisco

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:28:05 +0000

OK, who's got a big pipe... your gonna need it for this download from Microsoft. Granted it's not as big and fancy as some of those ISO's that "certain" people... Read more...

MS FrontPage Restricts Free Speech II (It's True!)

Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:42:33 +0000

Several readers have told me their EULA for FrontPage 2002 does not contain the no-disparaging-MS term, or that the term only applies to the FrontPage logo or to the Web components like the MSNBC news... Read more...