speech recognition

Hi This is one of the things about Windows 10 and Cortana in particular that drives me crazy. I've been using Cortana to play my music since she first showed up in Windows 10 Starting yesterday, when I say "Hey Cortana, Play my music." she says "Sure thing, shuffling your music." Then there is...

With Visual Studio 2015 now available and today being the start of the Windows 10 release wave and Cortana being just so cool, this post from Arun Kumar Surya Prakash is a perfect for today... Link Removed Microsoft has introduced Cortana in 2014 Build Event. With just one year now Cortana...

These downloads contain pre-recorded prompts, grammar files, text to speech data, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) files, and Voice Mail Preview capabilities for a specific language that is supported by Exchange 2013 CU9 Unified Messaging (UM). Warning: This UM language pack must only be...

Last week I introduced you to the Unity Kinect of Rumen Filkov (aka RF Solutions), Unity Asset - Kinect [v1] with MS-SDK. As I said, here's another of his Unity Assets, today focusing on the Kinect v2. Kinect v2 with MS-SDK Link Removed Kinect v2 with MS-SDK is a set of Kinect v2 examples...

I did find something cool! A couple weeks ago I said I wouldn't post anything more about the Microsoft Band (unless I found something really cool). Well today's project is officially cool! How could you not think Paul DeCarlo's recent project RPi + WinPhone + MS Band + Azure + Excel +...

If you've been following this blog for any length of time, you know how much I like the Kinect voice recognition and its potential. Every single time I use my Xbox One, it's just so natural to "Xbox Pause" or "Xbox Turn Off"... Zubair Ahmed has just shared a simple sample, but simple in that...

These downloads contain pre-recorded prompts, grammar files, text to speech data, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) files, and Voice Mail Preview capabilities for a specific language that is supported by Exchange 2013 CU8 Unified Messaging (UM). Warning: This UM language pack must only be...

Hi I'm finding it very hard to find any information about how to actually use Cortana or what she is supposed to do in her current state. In the video the speaker "Joe" says, "Hey Cortana, I'd like to send an email to (gives a name I've forgotten) and she opens an interface and asks what the...

One of the stars of last week's Windows 10 Event was undeniably Cortana. Today we are going to share not one, not two, but three different Cortana dev posts... First a post from Link Removed; Link Removed I wrote a little in this Link Removed about the basics of integrating Cortana into a...

Hi I want to upgrade to Windows 8.1 but I've had problems with it. As long as I'm running Windows 8 and my sound is fine. When I upgraded to Windows 8.1, Windows installed new sound drivers and my sound is distorted especially computer generated speech, and sound in computer games. After a...

Kinect for Windows language packs are add-ins for the Kinect for Windows Runtime that enable speech recognition for the way a language is spoken in different locales. Link Removed

Bruno Capuano, Friend of the Gallery, shows how fast the Kinect for Windows v2 SDK has been evolving, this time showing off the new Speech Recognition... [#KINECTSDK] Speech recognition now available in SDK V2! “This is preliminary software and/or hardware and APIs are preliminary and subject...

Taking a breather from Visual Studio Extensions, today our Mobile Monday project shows you how you can build Cortana enabled projects... Link Removed ... You’ve likely already read about how Cortana will use the power of Bing to deliver personalized, natural experiences to users. What you may...

Hello In order to add a french voice i downloaded from the net RSSolo4FrenchVirginie application and installed it. But when i clicked text to speech in the control panel ,i didn't see the new voice in the voice selection listbox. When I searched for "sapi.cpl" ,I found many located in...

Hello I tried to use windows speech recognition but i get an error when i clicked the device. "speech recognition could not start because the language configuration is not supported " I tried via the control panel to configure the windows speech but i can not open any property page. I see only...

Having some trouble with the Speech Recognition program. It hears my voice fine, it will do all the things I ask it to. However. Once in a while it will just stop working entirely and it will no longer respond to; 'Start Listening' or 'Stop Listening'. I have also noticed that the macros for...

I have a few questions about speech recognition. Firstly, I found an article on the Internet, that stated Microsoft had developed an application that allows users to write macros for speech recognition. At the time of development, the application was developed for Windows Vista. However, I'm...

In Windows 7 Pro, once Speech Recognition is turned on, I want to invoke keyboard commands that have more than 2 keys. In Photoshop, for instance, Save for Web is Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S. If I say: Press Control plus Alt plus Shift plus S, nothing happens. Is there a way to invoke commands that...

I have literally hundreds of hours of excellent quality audio of my (late) father speaking. I would very much like to be able to use Windows 7 voice recognition to transcribe these audio's into text, but from what I know about speech recognition apps - they all seem to require training via a...

In Windows 7 speech recognition dictionary if I just keep hitting record and saying the word over and over does that improve recognition of that word?