News · 10 Aug 2011 · MTW Editorial Team
Microsoft’s Tellme division has unveiled its future plans regarding the upcoming Natural Language Query speech recognition technology that the company is working on with the Xbox/Kinect, Windows, Windows Phone. As of right now Tellme only used for relatively simple speech search queries and commands that usually don’t involve more that a few rods and simple voice to text translation (as currently available in Windows Phone 7 Mango and other Microsoft products like windows 7, Kinect etc).
Tellme’s future speech recognition system should allow users to naturally talk to their phones with a more integrated system that should interact seamlessly with the users social & business connections, personal preferences, know his intent, his likes and dislikes. You should checkout the the video below highlighting these future capabilities:
Microsoft has also unveiled that a Tellme Speech Recognition API for Windows Phone 7 is in the works and will allow third-party developers to use the Tellme service in the apps.
Head over to the Tellme blogpost for a more detailed view of the current services and upcoming plans.
source: Tellme via All About Microsoft
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