Microsoft now provides app developers with API-based access to voice biometric-based speaker identification. They call it “Speaker Recognition” and package it as part of its cloud-based “machine learning platform” called Project Oxford, which also features APIs for face recognition, speech… Read More ›
By adding operational analytics specialist VoloMetrix, Microsoft now has the opportunity to deliver future enterprise use cases where insightful, intelligent advisors optimize meeting planning and increase employee productivity.
With the announcement of Cortana Analytics Suite, Microsoft is offering intelligent assistance for the enterprise with business-ready components for machine learning and predictive analytics.
The Big Three — Apple, Google, and Microsoft — are devoting significant research and development to improve their personal intelligent assistant offerings and further embed them into an enterprise application ecosystem.
Cortana is positioned to be the highly personalized, human-like front-end to all of Microsoft’s software, services and devices.
As markets mature, incumbents distinguish themselves by capitalizing on long-term branding and R&D investment, while insurgents put pressure on with new features and functions that they hope will gain traction. A flurry of new announcements in the Intelligent Agent domain… Read More ›
Microsoft’s chief research officer Rick Rashid showcased real time speech-to-speech translation (English to Chinese) at Microsoft Research Asia’s 21st Century Computing event in early November 2012.
With very little fanfare, Microsoft is ready to deep six Bing 411, the free voice search and directory assistance service that grew out of its acquisition of Tellme Networks (which took place in may 2007).
As of today, people can use their voices, in conjunction with an xBox 360, Kinect motion detection and Bing Search, to take command and navigate the growing variety of content offered through TV screens.
There’s a new calculus afoot among “agile” application and software developers, especially those addressing the marketplace created by new mobile devices. It pays to “sell solutions,” especially when your solution is for a very specific, well-recognized problem.