During Interspeech 2011 , the 12th annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association being held in Florence, Italy, from Aug. 28 to 31, researchers from Microsoft Research will present work that dramatically improves the potential of real-time, speaker-independent, automatic speech...

The Windows Speech Recognition Macros tool – or WSR Macros for short – extends the usefulness of the speech recognition capabilities in Windows Vista. Users can create powerful macros that are triggered by spoken commands which can perform a series of tasks from as simple as inserting your mailing address...

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 using speech APIs (COM or .NET) in applications and which languages are supported...

The Speech Components Group (the team I work on) just created a new team blog for all things Speech @ Microsoft. This is the spot that people in my team that don't have their own blog will answer questions we get from the community, and where we'll let you all know about the neat new things our...

With Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Speech Server, you can develop and deploy speech-enabled interactive voice response (IVR) applications. Speech Server combines speech technologies, Voice over IP (VoIP), and telephony capabilities into a single system and a single code base. In addition...

Anoop Gupta, corporate vice president of the Unified Communications Group at Microsoft, discusses the future of speech technologies and how customers and partners will benefit from unified communications solutions that include speech capabilities. Today at the annual SpeechTEK East 2006 Conference in...

Awards recognize achievements in developing high-impact speech and telephony applications. Microsoft Corp. today announced the winners of the Microsoft ® Speech Server Partner Spotlight Awards. The winners were recognized for their achievements in developing customer-friendly and forward-thinking speech...

REDMOND, Wash. — May 8, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of the Microsoft ® Speech Server 2007 beta and a new set of features to make it easier for companies to develop and manage well-designed voice response and touch-tone applications to address their callers’ needs and improve...

Beta for the third release of Microsoft’s speech and telephony platform is scheduled to be available in May. Microsoft Corp. today disclosed the road map and first set of features of its upcoming release of Microsoft® Speech Server 2007. Beginning in May, beta testers will have the opportunity to preview...

SAN FRANCISCO — Jan. 31, 2006 — Today at the annual SpeechTEK West convention in San Francisco, Microsoft Corp. highlighted the recent successes of its software partners in bringing to market a diverse set of packaged speech applications built on Microsoft ® Speech Server, the company’s interactive voice...