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- Free speech for students, revisited
- When I was in high school (not so long ago, but quite some time in computer years), we tested the limits of free speech with t-shirts, the occasional flyer, buttons, and even editorials in the school paper. Freedom of speech was largely an issue of students speaking freely while...
- Tags: Speech, Student, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- Speereo Voice Organizer (Pocket PC) (zip)
- Program offers interaction between user and machine through a dialog. State-of-the-art speech interface makes Speereo Voice Organizer perfect for keeping things planned while out of office. Keep track of your current agenda, save time and organize your day. Send voice e-mails and voice-dial your contacts. Multiple Pocket PCs Best Software...
- Tags: PC, Speech, Speereo Software, Pocket PC, E-mail, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Online Communications, Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-01
- Revelution Messenger (zip)
- Revelution Messenger is tiny for its type. Revelution Messenger is a fully featured messenger program with text formatting, commands, and smiles. Revelution Messenger uses encryption to send your messages so you cant be spied on. You can choose with speech, without speech. Version 0.0.4.5 includes unspecified updates.
- Tags: Speech, EmoYasha, Revelution Messenger, Security
- Software downloads 2008-03-14
- In close First Amendment case, Virginia court upholds spammer conviction
- What do geeks hate more than free speech restrictions? Spammers! Thus, anti-spam laws are an interesting collision. Spamming is clearly speech -- albeit commercial speech. So are antispam laws constitutional? The Virginia Supreme Court took that matter up in the case of Jeremy Jaynes, a particularly obnoxious...
- Tags: Speech, Anti-spam, First Amendment, Spamming, Statute, Virginia, Jeremy Jaynes, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Speech and Debate Timekeeper (zip)
- Speech and Debate Timekeeper is an open source, multi-platform timer for speech and debate competitions. It has speech order and time limits preprogrammed for Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Public Forum, World Schools, Karl Popper, and miscellaneous debate formats as well as individual events. This timer gives visual and/or vocal time signals...
- Tags: Speech, Open Source
- Software downloads 2008-02-13
- Speech (gg)
- Type the text on the text field and click on 'Speech' and the computer speech the text. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Speech, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-12-10
- SmartRead Mobile TTS SDK (zip)
- SmartRead Mobile TTS SDK can run on Microsoft Mobile 2003/Mobile 5.0/6.0, the Emualtor(X86) and ARM client of Pocket PC 2003/Mobile 5.0/6.0, translate the text to speech and transmit to speaker. SmartRead Mobile TTS SDK also can run on Windows Mobile CE.NET system and Smartphone 2003/Mobile 5.0/6.0. Based on UNICODE technology,...
- Tags: Speech, C#, Pocket PC, C/C++, Handhelds, Programming Languages, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware, Software
- Software downloads 2007-12-10
- Spammer says state law is unconstitutional
- Is an anti-spam law unconstitutionally infringe on free speech? That's what a former spammer is arguing to the Virginia Supreme Court, The Washington Post reports. Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., was convicted in 2003 in the nation's first felony anti-spamming case sentenced to nine years in prison. Prosecutors said...
- Tags: Computer Network, Speech, Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Speech SDK (exe)
- We recommend using SAPI 5.0 but have made this older release available to developers who need it. The SAPI 4.0 SDK provides state of the art continuous speech recognition and text-to-speech engines, a rich set of tools, sample source code, and information needed for developing speech-enabled applications for Microsoft Windows....
- Tags: Speech, SDK, Microsoft Corp., SAPI 4.0 SDK, Speech Recognition, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Construction, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-09-04
- SmartRead SDK (exe)
- Let your software read text text to speech, support Mandarin and English text, offers many kinds of TTS engines freely. Set speech voice,rate,volume,can translate text to Wave file. Offer detailed example of VC++, VB, Delphi, C++ Builder, Java, C#(vs.net 2003/2005), VB.NET(vs.net 2003/2005), VFP, PowerBuilder, help document let you take it...
- Tags: Speech, Programming Languages, C#, Development Tools, Microsoft Development Tools, .Net, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2007-08-30
- Microsoft to launch Office Communications Server 2007 this fall
- Microsoft will launch the latest versions of its unified communications products -- Office Communications Server OCS 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 client -- sometime this fall.Microsoft is on track to release to manufacturing the two OCS products on Friday, July 27, according to Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes.Raikes, who...
- Tags: Web conferencing, VOIP, Telecommunications, System builders, Speech, SharePoint Server, Office Live, Office 2007, Office, OEMs
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Microsoft's next developer platform frontier: Unified communications
- Microsoft got its start by appealing to developers. Since its early days, the company has added more and more developer platforms to its line-up. And now it's building out another: An official developer platform for unified communications.Unified communications, in Microsoft parlance, refers primarily to Exchange Server and Office Communictions Server...
- Tags: Web conferencing, VOIP, Telecommunications, Speech, Exchange Server, Corporate strategy, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- CoolInfo (exe)
- With CoolInfo, you can navigate the Internet by speech, search with Google, Yahoo, eBay and MSN entirely by speech. Create speech commands to start programs, open files, browse web pages and make your computer speak back to you. You can also use the Windows calculator with speech. Say What Can...
- Tags: Speech, Productivity, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-04-16
- Ex-Softie weighs in on how to avoid the dancing Microsoft elephant
- Speaking of Microsofts unified-communications strategy, former Softie Alec Saunders has an interesting post on how to "avoid becoming Microsoft roadkill" in the converging VOIP/conferencing/phone market. (Saunders spent nine years at Microsoft in a variety of product management and marketing roles, including the initial launch of Microsoft Internet Explorer. He...
- Tags: VOIP, System builders, Speech, Resellers, OEMs, Network service providers, Telecommunications, Systems integrators, Exchange Server, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Cisco's Chambers claims a three-year lead on Microsoft
- Cisco CEO John Chambers has thrown down the gauntlet. At Ciscos Partner Summit in Las Vegas this week, Chambers told the press corps in attendance that he believes Cisco has a three-year lead on Microsoft in the unified communications space. And, according to TechIQ Magazines "VAR Guy," who...
- Tags: VOIP, Telecommunications, Systems integrators, System builders, Speech, Resellers, OEMs, Network service providers, Corporate strategy, Channel
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- SPDemo (zip)
- SPDemo is an assisting tool for teaching speech & audio processing techniques developed in SIPL. Using SPDemo one can select from a variety of speech & audio processing techniques and parameters in a straightforward and simple way. The results of this processing are shown both numerically and graphically, in...
- Tags: Audio, Speech, SIPL Technion, SPDemo, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-02-19
- TextSpeech Pro for Pocket PC (exe)
- With TextSpeech Pro for Pocket PC, you will be able to: synthesize speech from most documents (like Pocket Word, text, and HTML); browse the Internet using a feature-rich Web browser and listen to any Web page being converted to human speech; export text to a variety of audio file formats;...
- Tags: PC, Speech, ImageSkill, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software
- Software downloads 2006-12-08
- Bandwidth Expansion With a Polya Urn Model
- This paper presents a new statistical technique for the estimation of the high frequency components (4-8kHz) of speech signals from narrow-band (0-4 kHz) signals. The magnitude spectra of broadband speech are modelled as the outcome of a Polya Urn process, that represents the spectra as the histogram of the outcome...
- Tags: Speech, Broadband, Indice, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2006-09-30
- SpeechAnywhere (exe)
- SpeechAnywhere is used to read selected Chinese/English text on a normal window. It is a very convenient tool for learning Chinese and listening to Web or text file content while doing other work. With SpeechAnywhere, Chinese speech from Web page or other window is just a click away. Version 1.13...
- Tags: Web, Speech, Window, SpeechAnywhere, Construction, Channel Management, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2006-08-23
- Blind Separation of Speech With a Switched Sparsity and Temporal Criteria
- A Blind Signal Separation algorithm SCAtemp that exploits both the sparse time-frequency representation and temporal structure of speech is proposed. SCAtemp compares each speech signal's adherence to the sparsity and temporal criteria, before switching to the most appropriate criteria to estimate each signal. This algorithm is shown to improve the...
- Tags: Algorithm, Speech, SCAtemp, Engineering
- White papers 2006-06-29
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