voice recognition

Overview I called this project the “Internet of Stranger Things,” but so far, there hasn’t been an internet piece. In addition, there really hasn’t been anything that couldn’t be easily accomplished on an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi. I wanted this demo to have more moving parts to improve the...

Overview I am a child of the 80s. Raiders of the Lost Ark was the first movie I saw by myself in the movie theater. The original Star Wars trilogy was an obsession. And WarGames is one thing that inspired me more than anything else to become a programmer. But it was movies like The Goonies...

Uh...hey guys! I was just wondering if we could use the standard built-in microphone for talking on ear-phones/buds that we get with phones...I own a normal Samsung earbud, that came with my phone, and has a speaker in the middle of the cord, with a square button, and two volume buttons. I just...

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...

Hi I don't have a lot of expectation that anyone is going to be able to help with this but I've exhausted my research and thought I'd give it a try here. While Cortana has had a lot of issues, the one thing that it did do for me during beta was play my music. Since I installed the final...

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...

Windows 10 is Microsoft’s next iteration of their popular Windows operating system and one of the big features will be Cortana, their voice recognition software. A challenge with all of these kinds of applications is their ability to accurately recognize voices, each of which comes with their...

For decades science fiction movies have been imagining the future as one where humans talk to machines just as naturally as they speak to family and friends. In reality, however, using voice to interact with machines has been maddeningly frustrating, with Siri often mistaking “open up my email”...

Hello! I’m Link Removed, the Group Program Manager for Cortana and Search on the Windows PC, Phone and Tablet Group. Over the past few months, we’ve shared details about some of the features we think you’ll love in Windows 10 like Continuum, universal apps and of course Cortana. I’m proud to...

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

Hi I was curious about Cortana, I have an iPad so I'm used to Siri, which I use occasionally. I like to ask her if she's serious. LOL But Cortana looks like it will be more sophisticated then what I've been able to get Siri to do. I searched and did find that the Cortana files are already...

With the coming release of the Kinect for Windows v2 device, which you can pre-order now, we should start seeing more of our favorite frameworks, utilities and tools being updated. We've highlighted Kinect Common Bridge a couple times before, Kids, Kinect, Cinder and some C++ too... Meet the...

I want to make audio recordings at our fraternal meetings, then use voice recognition to put the audio into text and post in our secretary's book to show a record of the meeting. Is this possible with Windows 7 voice recognition?

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...

Toyota and Microsoft this week announced a partnership that will expand Microsoft’s penetration in automotive telematics, while providing Toyota with on-board communication, control and entertainment electronics. While this marks the first time the two companies have joined forces to develop...

Learn how to setup and train the voice recognition feature of Windows 7. Once you are up and running you can use voice commands to control your computer instead of the keyboard and mouse. In addition, voice recognition can be used to dictate documents and email messages. Link Removed

Stop typing and start dictating with speech recognition software that is included with Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Though not 100% accurate the software is a good starting place for starting to use voice recognition software. Link Removed

I went to set up my microphone using the program from ease of access or whatever it is considered, and when i clicked on it, it always shows this warning I've tweaked with it repeatedly and never seem to get this program to work except once, but my computer had an issue and i had to restore...

So, I use ventrilo to voice chat with friends online, however if I am using windows voice recognition I have to turn it off every time I want to say something to my friends. Is there a way I can have windows voice recognition turn off while I'm pressing the push to talk key?