Microsoft gives developers a voice
C|Net | at | by Mike
Hoping to spur adoption of speech recognition technology, Microsoft said Tuesday it has released a test version of a new development tool that lets software interact more easily with a human voice. Although speech recognition has been around for years and has seen limited adoption, Microsoft is betting that more powerful hardware and software means that the technology is ready to become a part of Web sites and business systems. With voice-enabled software, a typical computer user could perform tasks such as making an airline reservation by just by speaking the information.
Microsoft plans to release a test version of a software developer kit, or SDK, as an add-on to Visual Studio.Net, the recently released upgrade to its bundle of software development tools.