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Beyond the smartwatch: how invisible machines will shape Microsoft's future

By Amar Toor on April 24, 2013 12:22 pm + 31 comments

Rick Rashid has a lot on his plate. As the chief research officer at Microsoft Research, the Continue reading…
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Future Windows Phone speech recognition revealed in leaked video

By Tom Warren on March 21, 2013 01:11 pm + 58 comments

Microsoft has had speech recognition in Windows Phone since it first debuted, but it looks like the Continue reading…
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Windows Phone 8 lets you have 'conversations with apps'

By Adi Robertson on June 20, 2012 01:46 pm + 48 comments

Microsoft is hoping to do Siri one better by letting developers integrate speech response and Continue reading…
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Kinect for Windows 1.5 released with '10-joint' skeletal tracking and Kinect Studio

By Tom Warren on May 21, 2012 10:30 am + 11 comments

Microsoft is improving the functionality of its Kinect for Windows hardware this week with the Continue reading…
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AT&T releasing Watson voice recognition APIs to developers in June

By Nathan Ingraham on April 19, 2012 10:56 am + 13 comments

AT&T's research arm has spent over two decades developing its Watson speech and language engine, Continue reading…
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Kinect for Windows 1.5 will feature '10-joint' skeletal tracking and four new speech recognition languages

By Tom Warren on March 27, 2012 12:52 pm + 11 comments

Microsoft may have shipped Kinect for Windows out of beta on February 1st, but the company is Continue reading…
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Japanese language support next in line for Siri?

By Sam Byford on February 14, 2012 11:56 pm + 10 comments

It looks like Japanese could be the next language to work with Siri, if the voice recognition Continue reading…
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Nintendo and NTT Docomo testing speech recognition system with Nintendo DSi

By T.C. Sottek on January 30, 2012 02:33 pm + 3 comments

Nintendo and NTT Docomo are working on a speech-to-text system for the Nintendo DSi, intended to Continue reading…
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Nuance acquiring Vlingo to accelerate voice recognition software development

By T.C. Sottek on December 20, 2011 01:35 pm + 9 comments

Nuance, the voice recognition behemoth, has announced that it will purchase voice-assistant app Continue reading…
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Siri0us brings Siri dictation to jailbroken iOS 5 devices

By Eddie Fu on November 28, 2011 02:49 pm + 12 comments

We've seen an unreleased Siri hack that purportedly works on the iPhone 4, and now there's a Continue reading…