Microsoft Demos Improved Windows Phone Speech Recognition

Speech recognition can be awesome – when it works. Talk too quickly, or where there’s too much ambient noise, and your phone may struggle to tell “sushi restaurant” from “suits cheap resting hot.” Microsoft is apparently interested in tweaking Windows Phone’s speech recognition to help it perform better in even challenging situations, and a leaked video shows the company demonstrating its new system at its recent TechFest. First up, the new ...

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