In this wide-ranging video conversation, Zig Sarafin describes Microsoft’s many initiatives around speech and the Natural User Interface (NUI). He also describes where Tellme “fits” into the efforts to support accurate recognition and response to spoken input into services like Bing, the Microsoft “Search Cloud” and in automobiles. Definitely worth the 15 minute runtime (Silverlight required, natch!)
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