speech-to-text

They say the best ideas come to us in the shower, on a walk, or—much less glamorously—while slouched in traffic, dictating voice memos to ourselves in a bid to salvage inspiration before it vanishes into the ether. For years, the promise of smartphones has been to bridge these moments of...

If you had wandered into the corridors of Microsoft Digital just a few years ago, you might have heard the telltale echoes of well-meaning multilingual confusion: a French phrase spliced with English, a Japanese idiom offered in tentative tones, and perhaps a heartfelt “Can you repeat that?”...

The advent of the o3 and o4-mini models on the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service marks a thrilling leap into the next generation of AI reasoning. These latest entries in the o-series, unveiled within Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, don't merely build upon past versions—they shatter previous benchmarks...

Microsoft is once again pushing the envelope in AI innovation with the release of its new GPT-4o mini audio models, now available in preview on Azure AI Services. Targeted at developers and enterprises alike, these new models promise to deliver efficient speech-to-text and text-to-speech...

In the whirlwind world of technology, there’s nothing quite as exhilarating as the ability to control your device with just your voice. Whether done out of pure convenience or necessity, voice control is a rapidly evolving feature that has much to offer for Windows users. Below, we’ll dive into...

Windows Phone 8.1 will be hitting phones soon now. Yeah, I know all of YOU are running the Windows Phone 8.1 Dev Preview, but for the general user, most should be getting in the coming weeks and months (insert standard disclaimer that your mileage may vary, dates are estimates and under external...