The Windows Phone 8 SDK added a speech recognition API that's easy to use and flexible. Learn how to put it to work in your application. I think it's safe to say that a majority of mobile developers ...

Windows developers have a new tool up their sleeves for letting users talk to their apps. First spotted by Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft has started allowing Windows developers to build apps for Windows 8, ...

Much has been written in the past week or so regarding some security issues with Windows Speech Recognition. Rob Chambers, who works on Microsoft’s Windows Speech Recognition team, writes about how ...

Microsoft has released the first Technical Preview (think pre-beta) of Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) Macros, an extension of the Windows Speech Recognition capabilities in Windows Vista. The 2.77MB ...

Last week I had a temporary problem typing. As I was writing to deadline, I was less than pleased by the prospect of being unable to do my work. Many years ago — I think I was running Windows 98 SE at ...

The voice recognition and speech features included in Windows Phone have just gotten a huge speed boost according to Microsoft. To understand why this is such a breakthrough for the company you first ...

Just like you would ask Google Assistant or Siri to accomplish tasks on your phone, you can also talk to your Windows PC to get things done hands-free. While you can use basic commands to perform ...

Windows 11 Voice Access is a major update to Microsoft's accessibility tools, allowing users to control their desktop entirely with voice commands — no hands or Internet connection required. The ...

In July of this year, Microsoft made it official that Bing is more than just a search engine. It also is a dev platform, providing coders with controls, development kits and the back-end services ...

Although it's not perfect, the Windows Speech Recognition program can help you create professional business documents by speaking into a microphone instead of typing on your computer's keyboard. After ...