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 Microsoft Speech - Technology Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Speech recognition, or speech-to-text, involves capturing and digitizing the sound waves, converting them to basic language units or phonemes, constructing words from phonemes, and contextually analyzing the words to ensure correct spelling for words that sound alike (such as write and right).
Recognizers-also referred to as speech recognition engines- are the software drivers that convert the acoustical signal to a digital signal and deliver recognized speech as text to your application.
Speech recognition offers game and edutainment developers the potential to bring their applications to a new level of play.
www.microsoft.com /speech/evaluation/techover   (1483 words)

  
 Speech Recognition
Speech recognition engines solve the problem by creating "tri-phones", which are phonemes in the context of surrounding phonemes.
There are millions of words, but most people only use a few thousand of them a day, and they may need even fewer words to communicate to a computer.
Because the words "to", "too", and "two" all have the same expected pronunciation, the language model is the sole determiner of which one gets recognized.
project.uet.itgo.com /speech.htm   (3594 words)

  
 Flickr: 1000 words of poetry
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government or of the sword for military power.
A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in "How like the winter hath my absence been" or "So are you to my thoughts as food to life" (Shakespeare).
www.flickr.com /groups/m_words   (1551 words)

  
 Do you hear what I hear?
Speech is becoming a new form of human interaction with computers.
Speech interaction allows hands-free computing, access to your computer even when away from your desk, and improves accessibility for disabled users.
The speech synthesizer and speech recognizer are the instances of the
www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/ibm/library/i-voice   (2026 words)

  
 EPIC Archive - Free Speech
California, obscenity is speech that (1) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, taken as a whole, to appeal to the prurient interest; (2) depicts or describes in a patently offensive manner specifically defined sexual conduct; and (3) lacks as a whole serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Speech likely to provoke an average listener to retaliation, and thereby cause a breach of peace, falls outside the protection of the First Amendment because the words have no important role in the marketplace of ideas the freedom of speech is designed to promote.
Welch, the Court limited this expansive protection to public figure, not public causes: a publisher of defamatory statements about an individual who is neither a public official nor a public figure may not claim protection against liability for defamation on the ground that the statements concern an issue of public or general interest.
www.epic.org /free_speech   (5051 words)

  
 Exit, Voice, and Values on the Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In considering whether an unregulated cybermarketplace for speech is likely to suffer from the problems described above, it is important to consider whether a wide and divergent range of value-sets will actually be available for individuals to choose among.
Code,  Chapters 10-12, for Lessig’s discussion of the translation of intellectual property, privacy, and free speech values by private market actors in the cybermarketplace.
I focus on the collective value of protecting minority speech because this value is among the most likely to be endangered by the Net libertarian/consumer model.
docs.law.gwu.edu /facweb/dnunziato/EssayonCode.htm   (8344 words)

  
 X+V is a markup language, not a Roman math expression   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Speech-enabling an application interface is a matter of first breaking the visual interface into its basic components (for example, an input field for a time of day and a checkbox for "a.m." or "p.m."), creating snippets of voice markup for each component, and then associating the snippets to the existing visual markup for each component.
Figure 2 is a visual representation of the X+V language structure.
Speech Application Language Tags is one of several emerging technologies for multimodal interface development.
www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/linux/library/wi-xvlanguage   (3061 words)

  
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This front end also figures out details like functions and parts of speech—for instance, which words are proper nouns, numbers, and so forth; where sentences begin and end; whether a phrase is a question or a statement; and whether a statement is past, present, or future tense.
A speech synthesis engine already knows how to pronounce most of the words in general use in a language, through a combination of an extensive lexicon and algorithms for deriving the pronunciation of unknown words.
In this code, the contents of each Choices instance are specified in the constructor as a sequence of string parameters.
msdn.microsoft.com /msdnmag/issues/06/01/speechinWindowsVista   (4144 words)

  
 Speech Recognition Systems
Speech Recognition is being used in modern helicopters and commercial planes, however, and enables pilots to call up desired displays on a VDU rather than looking for an instrument amongst many required by the aircraft.
Computers can understand certain words when an operator has 'taught' the computer the word before or, can analyse each syllable of the sound and try to create a reasonable match to the that word against a stored library of sound.
In principle LPC creates a series of speech frames (eg 40 per second) in which the frequency, amplitude, duration and sound type is converted to a binary code.
members.tripod.com /werdav/ecmsprs.html   (1302 words)

  
 How to Build Grammars for Speech-enabled Applications
Microsoft Speech Server lets you build complex voice-only applications in the same environment used to build today's Web-based applications, but instead of a point-and-click graphical user interface, users access information using a phone and a series of voice commands.
In Figure 2 this attribute contains a value of 1.00, which indicates 100 percent confidence that the result returned from the speech recognizer is accurate.
Speech Debugging Console: You use this console to debug dynamic grammars and user input at runtime.
www.devx.com /dotnet/Article/30284/1954?pf=true   (1839 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Figures of Speech Used in the Bible: Explained and Illustrated: Books: Ethelbert W. Bullinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In fact we often use figures of speech in our everyday conversations without paying much attention to it but we do expect others to understand that we were speaking figuratively and not literally.
E.W. Bullingers "Figures of Speech Used in the Bible" is the only book in existence that properly teaches the student all the forms of figurative speech used, and the verses where they can be found.
Figures of Speech Used in the Bible is an excellent example of Bullinger's thorough and exacting examination of Bible details, which greatly assist in understanding all the spiritual messages in the Bible.
www.amazon.com /Figures-Speech-Used-Bible-Illustrated/dp/0801005590   (1446 words)

  
 Processing Speech with Java
Speech is such a common subject that whenever we bring it up as a topic of conversation, our friends look at us as if we are a little strange.
Speech recognition is the art of turning analog sound waves captured by a microphone into words.
Speech synthesis is the art of taking the written word and transforming it into analog waveforms that can be heard over a speaker.
www.developer.com /java/article.php/1471001   (2172 words)

  
 Speech Recognition Using Neural Networks
Fourth, a Viterbi search is used to match the neural-network output scores to the target words (the words that are assumed to be in the input speech), in order to determine the word that was most likely uttered.
This word has the best fit to the input data, and it is therefore the word that was most likely uttered.
In effect, we are saying that we will recognize the target word when its score is better than the score obtained by multiplying the values of all 16-th best values (or when its score is better than the score for silence).
cslu.cse.ogi.edu /tutordemos/nnet_recog/recog.html   (1716 words)

  
 Cutting Edge: The Microsoft Speech SDK; Microsoft Internet Developer February 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Speech recognition is the ability of a computer to understand and interpret the spoken word.
The very first words I asked the TTS to speak were "Dino Esposito." While the last name was spoken correctly, the first name was not.
Figure 14 illustrates how to check whether the data copied to the clipboard is text data, and if so, how to access the text and fill the text box with it.
www.microsoft.com /mind/0299/cutting/cutting0299.asp   (3391 words)

  
 Word Definitions
This word comes from the Medieval idea that the world was made of four corruptible elements: earth, air, fire and water.
The two words are spelled the same, are pronounced differently, and have different meanings.
The best place to use "literally" is when a figure of speech can be taken for its literal meaning.
www.terrycolon.com /word.html   (869 words)

  
 CoDe Magazine - Article: Building Speech-Enabled Applications with ASP.NET
The name HAL was derived from a combination of the words “heuristic” and “algorithmic.” These are considered the two main processes involved in human learning.
Speech enabled applications have become a core requirement for many enterprise and commercial applications.
This includes words that may be spoken, patterns that words may occur in, and the spoken language of each word.
www.code-magazine.com /Article.aspx?quickid=0511041   (875 words)

  
 Figure of Speech
Figure of Speech for your printed materials except those that are governed by specialized guidelines such as research reports and legal documents.
it is unnecessary to use the word “room” if the building is named; if, however, the name of the building is not included, use figures to indicate the number and capitalize “room”; and capitalize the names of specifically designated rooms.
Figure of Speech is published for Weber State University's faculty and staff by the Office of Public Relations and the Office of Media Relations to establish a cohesive image of WSU.
departments.weber.edu /publicrelations/style.htm   (3312 words)

  
 Word Pirates
What it has come to mean: in the last 25 years the word "liberal" has become code for all the "worst" political traits of people on the left of the political spectrum...
Literally means, "I'm not using a figure of speech." People use the word as if it means the opposite of what it really means.
The word luddite is now ascribed to anyone resistant to change as though the luddites greivance was that weaving machines were new and so bad.
www.wordpirates.com /index.cgi/L/index.abc   (1056 words)

  
 Father of the Bride Speech & Toasts for the Wedding and Rehearsal Dinner
Not only are you expected to say a few words, but you're expected to say something important and meaningful.
These templates are professionally designed speeches written to make your own words flow from the opening sentence to the closing toast.
Here’s the part where most speeches totally wimp out -- it’s not enough to just say "Hello" and "Congratulations" because this is the point where you make or break the speech.
www.instantweddingtoasts.com /father-of-the-bride-speech.html   (1576 words)

  
 Audio-Visual Speech Recognition - Intel Corporation
The use of visual features in AVSR is justified by both the audio and visual modality of the speech generation and the need for features that are invariant to acoustic noise perturbation.
The speaker independent audio-visual continuous speech recognition system relies on a robust set of visual features obtained from the accurate detection and tracking of the mouth region.
Speech recognition examples for an audio-visual sequence captured in clean (top) and noisy (bottom, SNR = 5db) acoustic conditions.
www.intel.com /technology/computing/applications/avcsr.htm   (372 words)

  
 Newspeak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Similarly, Newspeak root words served as both nouns and verbs, which allowed further reduction in the total number of words; for example, "think" served as both noun and verb, so the word "thought" was unneeded and could be abolished.
Some people maintain that to make certain words or phrases "unspeakable" (thoughtcrime) through the attempt to make language politically correct restricts what ideas may be held (Newspeak) and is therefore tantamount to censorship.
It is argued that since the end of the Second World War and the Cold War, a similar effect has been wrought on the words "fascism" and "communism"; that communism no longer bears with it the doctrines of Marx, Engels, or Lenin, but rather a general bad connotation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Newspeak   (1905 words)

  
 A Figure of Speech, Inc.
The size of the description tag should be under 180 characters (this limit works on all of the major search engines).
180 characters is the equivalent of a sentence or two (25 words or less).
For example, a user might visit the Waterford Web site to purchase a wedding gift, but could also find the site when conducting a search for 'crystal.' The size of the keyword tag should be under 800 characters (actual limit size is 1,024 characters but 800 works on all of the major search engines).
www.figure-speech.com /web/meta_tag_form.htm   (743 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Turkish novelist wins free speech case By David Rennie, Europe Correspondent (Filed: 22/09/2006) A best-selling novelist was yesterday cleared by a Turkish court of insulting her country in a case regarded as the latest test of free speech for a nation vying to join the European Union.
I'll do my best to pull a transcript of his speech to find out what the context in which he's using it is, but needless to say, I doubt he's saying, "This illustrates the cynical nature of the activist press." This does appear to be "an historic" moment in the eyes of the press.
District pulls plug on speech Foothill valedictorian criticizes decision to censor her proclamation of faith By ANTONIO PLANAS REVIEW-JOURNAL She knew her speech as valedictorian of Foothill High School would be cut short, but Brittany McComb was determined to tell her fellow graduates what was on her mind and in her heart.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/k-speech/browse   (4824 words)

  
 Make Your ASP.NET Applications Talk with Text-to-Speech
Text-to-Speech (TTS), also known as speech synthesis, is the process in which typed text is transformed into audible speech.
To use it, you simply paste some text into the ReadPlease editor (see Figure 1) and—assuming your PC speakers are turned on—you'll hear the text spoken back to you.
For example, you can adjust the speed in which text is spoken by moving the Speed slider control seen in Figure 1 up and down.
www.devx.com /asp/Article/30520   (854 words)

  
 CodeGuru Forums - Capture text input and output via WORD in BOLD Font
I have been asked to write an data entry form with input textbox allowing the user to input text, "Eg Hullo Word" and output it to Microsoft WORD.
When it appears in Microsoft WORD, The text will be in BOLD Face.
When needing to figure out how Word or other Office apps perform their tasks just record a macro and view the generated macro module code.
www.codeguru.com /forum/showthread.php?t=404181   (611 words)

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