Hard to believe it has been almost a week since SpeechTek 2011 in NYC! Avtex headed out there to jointly work the show with the Microsoft Tellme team, and things went great. For those who don’t know, Microsoft Tellme is the incredibly scalable and leading-edge speech IVR cloud solution MS...
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Tag Archives: kinect
Programming a Kinect Bounding Box
I just wrote a post on implementing a bounding box in Kinect-based apps to limit where a user has control: Imagine a scenario where your Kinect-based application is running in an area where there is a lot of "noisy" user traffic in the background. It could be in a lobby,...
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Using the Kinect runtime in a WPF MVVM app
I just wrote a post about incorporating the Kinect SDK in a WPF Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) application: Now that the official Kinect SDK is out I've been looking for good patterns when incorporating it into Windows 7 applications. The Model-View-ViewModel (e.g. MVVM) pattern is my pattern of choice for WPF applications...
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Ballmer Bullish On Bing
Here's a great story from Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's comments about his excitement around natural-language speech technologies. "The scenarios Ballmer is outlining — computers that understand verbs — require better speech understanding than is currently available to most users. But don’t forget: Microsoft has...
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WPF 3D Camera Manipulation with Kinect
Just blogged over at kindohm.com: "I've created an implementation of a Kinect NUI Trackball which can be used for manipulating a camera around WPF 3D scenes. This "HandsTrackball" is adapted from the Trackball class included in the source code for WPF 3DTools. The original Trackball class allows you to use the...
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