Comments on: Interview with Oliver Scholz: Vista Speech UX Program Manager

By: Jesus Antonio Garcia Martinez

Jesus Antonio Garcia Martinez — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:30:05 +0000

Adquiri un laptop y trato de iniciar reconocimiento de voz y no es posible hay alguna pagina de donde volverle a configurar y asi poder disfrutar de dicho dispositivo

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:38:38 +0000

Wishing to talk to Oliver Sholz about the Newsgroups. I believe he may have started it or knows who did and wouldl ike some guidance about how to be able to get the capability to moderate these groups.

By: Speech recognition on a handheld - istartedsomething

Speech recognition on a handheld - istartedsomething — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:24:09 +0000

[...] of the people behind the technology and implementation is Oliver Scholz, who not surprisingly also worked on the speech recognition technology in Windows Vista. I had the opportunity to ask him some quick [...]

By: Interview with Matthew Goldberg: Guided Help development lead at istartedsomething

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:56:28 +0000

[...] You can’t talk about the technologies behind Guided Help without talking about MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility). The technology which allows applications to expose their user interface (UI) programmatically to make them available to accessibility aids (such as screen readers), also makes those same applications’ UI visible to Guided Help. We use the MSAA API’s to find the right UI that is needed for each step of a Guided Help article. This same technology is what makes it possible for users to interact with the UI using their voice and Microsoft Windows Speech Recognition – in fact, I am also the dev lead for Speech Recognition, working with Oliver Scholz, whom you interviewed in September. [...]

By: Interview with Andrew McGlinchey: Vista Control (Panel) Freak at istartedsomething

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:56:56 +0000

[...] I’ve not been at Microsoft all that long – three and a half years now, and just about all of it on the Vista project. I’m the PM for the Vista Control Panel, and also Guided Help (which you’ve shown on this screencast very nicely!). The group I’m in is called the Natural User Interface group, and our goal is to make it so people can use computers by just stating what they want naturally (meaning speaking or typed keywords), and get it done directly. Everyone would admit we still have a long way to go! But Vista’s Speech Recognition, the search feature in the control panel, and Guided Help, are all steps along that continuum. (Oliver Scholz, PM for Speech Recognition, who you interviewed here, is in the same group). We have some incubation projects in the wings that will take those first steps a lot further in future products. We look forward to the day when you can speak or type to your computer, and it’ll just do what you want! [Start listening. Do my homework. Stop listening.] [...]

By: Windows Vista: Speech recognition accuracy reaches 95-99.x% – 21talks

Windows Vista: Speech recognition accuracy reaches 95-99.x% – 21talks — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:03:38 +0000

[...] If you want to know more about what Microsoft plans to use voice in its Windows Vista (the always in beta operating system), here are some hints that Oliver Scholz, part of the Windows Vista Speech Recognition team, has given in a recent interview. The whole user experience part of Windows Vista Speech Recognition has had many improvements since Beta 2. These improvements are on every level, from the speech recognition engine to the user interface. The control panel has been cleaned up a little, the flow of certain scenarios has improved, and we’ve even added some commands, like the Move Mouse command, which moves the mouse pointer to a specific element on the screen. Speech Recognition accuracy for Vista should be between 95 – 99.x%. Accuracy is usually measured in terms of dictation accuracy. Commanding accuracy is usually not measured, because it’s almost always 99% or higher. Even if commanding accuracy isn’t 100%, the user is still in control when using Windows Vista Speech Recognition. [...]