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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.

Fiza Ali · Feb 2, 2022 with 0 comments

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Neowin Deals · Jan 22, 2022 with 0 comments

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.

Paul Hill · Dec 10, 2018 · Hot! with 20 comments

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.

Chris Schroeder · Oct 19, 2016 · Hot! with 26 comments

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.

Vlad Dudau · Sep 9, 2016 · Hot! with 9 comments

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.

Tyler Holman · Sep 22, 2012 · Hot! with 18 comments

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...

Brody McKee · Aug 4, 2010 · Hot! with 26 comments

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...

Matthew Hopson · Mar 2, 2009 with 11 comments

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....

Brad Sams · Jan 22, 2009 · Hot! with 42 comments

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...

Tom Warren · Jun 3, 2008 · Hot! with 27 comments

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...

Steven Parker · Sep 20, 2007 · Hot! with 2 comments

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,...

· Apr 13, 2007 · Hot! with 3 comments

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...

Tom Warren · Feb 1, 2007 · Hot! with 46 comments

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. ...

· Jun 1, 2005 with -1 comments

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...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Apr 1, 2005 · Hot! with -1 comments

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...

· Oct 27, 2004 with -1 comments

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...

Tom Warren · Mar 24, 2004 with -1 comments

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...

Tom Warren · Feb 1, 2004 with -1 comments

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,...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Dec 3, 2003 with -1 comments

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....

Daniel Fleshbourne · Dec 3, 2003 with -1 comments

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...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Sep 6, 2003 with -1 comments

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. ...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Aug 1, 2003 with -1 comments

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...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jul 9, 2003 with -1 comments

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...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Apr 2, 2003 with -1 comments

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...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Mar 25, 2003 with -1 comments

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...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Nov 9, 2002 with 2 comments

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...

Marcel Klum · May 2, 2002 with -1 comments

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...

· Mar 12, 2002 with -1 comments

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...

· Mar 11, 2002 with -1 comments

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...

· Sep 21, 2001 with -1 comments