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Microsoft’s recent policy shift tightens who can speak freely inside the company and where employees may work from, a move that recalibrates the balance between safety, operational control and employee expression inside one of the world’s largest technology firms. Background For much of the...

Microsoft’s latest internal shake-up has collapsed two debates that have run through corporate tech since the pandemic: how much power employers should have over employee speech, and how far the hybrid workplace experiment goes before organizations insist on physical presence as a business...

Microsoft has pushed a major real‑time audio milestone into the Azure stack: gpt‑realtime, a speech‑to‑speech (S2S) model optimized for low‑latency, natural‑sounding conversational agents, is now generally available on Azure AI Foundry and accessible through the Real‑time API for developers and...

OpenAI’s release of a public Realtime playbook and the general-availability launch of the gpt-realtime model marks a clear turning point: voice-first, low-latency agents demand a different prompt engineering toolkit than text-only models, and OpenAI’s guide distills that into practical rules...

Learn more about the privacy settings for speech, voice activation, inking, and typing in Windows 10. Continue reading...

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In the last post, you saw how AI is used to turn speech into text through the Cognitive Services Speech APIs. Once sounds have been converted into written text, they still have to be distilled for their meaning. Human language, however, is rich in ambiguities and understanding a sentence...

If you watched the Build 2016 keynote talks, you may have noticed how Microsoft is focusing more and more on improving how we humans interact with computers, by means of ink, speech, and other “more personal computing” features. Modern software is changing focus to using natural interfaces as...

In our first and second posts in this series, we looked at some of the APIs available in the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) for using speech as an input and output mechanism within your application. We’re going to close off the series with this article by broadening our scope and looking at...

Hi I've been struggling to get Cortana to work right ever since I installed the retail version of Windows 10. Well the update to the new version that installed today seems to have fixed it. Cortana will now play my music when I ask her, if I ask "Hey Cortana, where am I" she now says that...

What am I supposed to do to get Cortana to work? Cortana tells me to go and pick a language she understands I click on settings A window pops up I don't see anything resembling an OK button The only language I have on my laptop is English (United States) I already have my location enabled I live...

With Windows 10, it’s now easier than ever to support natural input in your apps and today we’d like to highlight using inking and speech to interact more naturally with your users. Digital inking with DirectInk Despite the introduction and evolution of all types of computer input devices...

Hi, I am looking for a speech to text tool for windows 8, or windows phone 8 that allows me to write docs by talking. I know that Word has a this, but I still haven't tried. I also can't find a this kind of tool for windows phone 8. So, I am asking if anyone knows any tool besides MS Word for...

Enabling the "Hey, Cortana" function in Windows 10 Build 9926 proves to be one of the more fascinating new features. read more Continue reading...

hello guys!! i have sony hands free and i want to use it in skype as mic and headphone in same time ... when someone call me i can hear him but he can't hear me .. so please any help?

Friends of the Gallery, Ben Lower and Rob Relyea are hosting a free, live, day long Jump Start just for you, the Kinect for Windows v2 developer... Link Removed Devs, are you looking forward to building apps with Kinect for Windows v2 this summer? In this Jump Start, explore the brand new...

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Where can I get a Croatian text-to-speech voice so that Microsoft Narrator can speak in Croatian?

I'm looking for a wireless Mic for speech recognition and I have no idea on which one I should get. I'm wondering if Windows 8 would be a better choice than Windows 7 for speech recognition but I want to be able to walk around the room while I'm using it. Any suggestions?

The Microsoft Tellme team is working with the Bing, Windows Phone, Kinect/Xbox, Azure and other Microsoft teams to add new speech-centric capabilities to Microsoft and third-party products in the... Source: Yahoo! News