Architecture, user interface, and enabling technology in Windows Vista's speech systems

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1156-1168

  Odell, Julian ^a   Mukerjee, Kunal ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Operating systems; Speech recognition and synthesis; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; TECHNOLOGY; USER INTERFACES;

ADAPTATION SYSTEMS; RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS;

WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

EID: 34548284043     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2007.1065     Document Type: Article

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