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. More...

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... More...

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... More...

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.... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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,... More...

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... More...

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. ... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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,... More...

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.... More...

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... More...

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. ... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...