voice control

Beginning today the Link Removed is available to download for free from the Windows Store onto all Windows 10 devices. Built for Windows 10, the FXNOW app features Cortana integration, allowing you to launch the app with your voice, as well as Live Tiles, which if pinned to your Start menu...

Starting with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge will support the Speech Synthesis APIs defined in the W3C Web Speech API Specification. These APIs allow websites to convert text to audible speech with customizable voice and language settings. With them, website developers can add...

Today we are excited to share that Link Removed! You can download it for free from the Windows Store to your Windows 10 PCs and Tablets. Link Removed Now Playing screen in the TuneIn Radio app for Windows 10 TuneIn Radio’s app lets you enjoy more than 100,000 stations worldwide – featuring...

Funny how some of the coolest projects come my way. Today project by Evan Cohen came via a "first time poster" on an internal Microsoft Distribution List, that happened to be subscribed to by a Channel 9 dev, who happened to read and realized it would be great of the Coding4Fun blog. Got to love...

Link Removed is now available to download for free from the Windows Store. Link Removed iHeartRadio brings you thousands of real radio stations covering Pop, Country, Hip-Hop, R&B, Alternative, Rock, Talk, News, Sports, Finance and Comedy all in one app. With the latest iHeartRadio app for...

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...

Hi I've been playing with Cortana today. Pretty neat, I set up a playlist with 175 pieces of music, a mixture of styles from Pop, Rock, Folk, and Broadway, with everyone from Barbara Streisand to Steeleye Span, Bruce Springsteen, and Joan Baez. Now all I have to do is say "Hey Cortana play my...

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?

Which has the best Speech Recognition Windows 7, Windows 8,or Dragon?

If Intel has its way, touch will be just one of the ways to control Windows 8 ultrabooks. The chipmaker is looking to add voice commands and Kinect-like gestures for what it calls “perceptual computing.” On Tuesday, Intel announced a partnership with Nuance Communications to put a locally hosted...

Following the foot steps of Windows Phone and Windows 8, the 2011 fall update for the Xbox 360 dashboard has been previewed again. Originally shown at E3, many were confused by the new system. Since then, Microsoft has worked fruitlessly on improving the navigation and other things on the new...

The PC may be finally liberated from the mouse and the keyboard. On Thursday, Microsoft began recruiting developers to build software that will bring motion and voice control to computers that run Windows 7. More...

Link RemovedBig News for Those Anticipating Windows 8! It's being covered all over the news now. Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer on Monday confirmed that Windows 8, the next iteration of the software giant's operating system, will be available in 2012. Speaking at a Microsoft Developer...

Hey people. I've been using windows speech recognition software since it was included in Windows Vista and now windows 7. To be completely honest I didn't really think that a free voice recognition system was gonna be that good because I've used many in the past and they weren't very accurate...

do any of you have a good list of Voice control comands. Thanks

The speech recognition in Win 7 is awesome I wonder if there is a way to use custom voice commands I create a custom voice command and link it to an .exe file or something like that If I say NFS, It must launch my game :p Like Sensiva(If you don't know it, try googling) :cool:

I love the speech recognition. It actually works, is useful, and is fun. But I would like to know if there is a way to customize the voice commands, such as addressing the computer as a name to activate it, instead of "Start listening" (nerdy, I know, but AWESOME). Or for further customization...

Is it possible to create custom commands for the speech recognition engine? For instance, can I create a command that will open my browser to a specific site or type my name (while not in "dictation" mode)?