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Troubleshoot Speech Recognition

whitepaper Speech recognition is on when the microphone is turned on, and one can see Dictation and Voice Command on the Language bar. To turn speech on or off, click Microphone on the Language bar, or click Speech on the Tools menu (Speech Recognition in...

Tags: voice recognition

[06 May 2008]

Small Business Webcast: Using Windows Messenger Tools in Your Small Business (Level 100)

whitepaper The presenter shows how to call a computer and have a video/voice conversation using the system's microphone, speakers, and camera. The attendee of this webcast will discover how to enjoy the benefits of real-time communication with other Windows...

Tags: im

[27 Mar 2008]

Google pledges 'wi-fi on steroids'

News In a renewed effort to get the FCC on board with the idea, Google filed a six-page letter late last week that attempts to erase lingering concerns from TV broadcasters and microphone manufacturers about harmful interference caused by the entry of...

Tags: google, fcc, mobile, wi-fi

[25 Mar 2008]

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for the Enterprise

whitepaper Applying this technology to make phone calls, known as Internet telephony, is simple, cost-effective and requires only a PC, telephony software and a communications device, such as an IP phone, microphone or headset.

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[12 Mar 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Monday

Comment Finally the end of the Q&A.and we tensed, pens poised, breath baited as Reding reached for the microphone. It's day one of Congress which means registration day for the masses - and press conference day for the press pack.

Tags: mobile world congress, google, ericsson, event

[12 Feb 2008]

VoIP Hacks: Sound Like Darth Vader While You VoIP

whitepaper The program uses the default microphone input, so if he or she is using a nonstandard microphone channel for the telephony or online chat, they'll need to click the Recording Source button and select the right input.

Tags: voip - ip telephony, controls, input, voice

[24 Oct 2007]

VoIP Hacks: Skype With Your Home Phone

whitepaper Instead of the secure feeling of an old-school phone receiver, the author is uncomfortable speaking into a USB headset or, worse still, speaking into his PowerBook's built-in microphone. If the user has worked with Skype for very long, he or she...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, phone, skype, interface

[24 Oct 2007]

Photos: Cool tech behind an Arctic expedition

Photo This consists of an ear-mounted, jawbone-sensing headset and separate throat-located microphone which are connected, through a wiring harness built into the team member's sledging suit, to a belt-mounted control box.

Tags: comms, expedition, arctic

[17 Oct 2007]

Podcasting Hacks: Make Your First Podcast

whitepaper If one doesn't have an internal microphone in the computer, one will need to get a microphone. Microphone solutions are available for all budgets. It can record sound from any source, including the internal microphone on the PC or Macintosh laptop.

Tags: streaming media, macintosh, microphone, budgets

[17 Oct 2007]

PowerPoint 2003: Working With Multimedia

whitepaper To use all of the available multimedia features, one's PC must be multimedia-ready, which means it needs CDROM, a sound card, speakers, and, if one wants to record anything, a microphone. Multimedia is a combination of movie, audio, animation, and...

Tags: multimedia, multimedia, movie, card

[17 Oct 2007]

GarageBand: Editing Software Instrument Parts

whitepaper Recording MIDI data, as described earlier, has a huge advantage over recording with a microphone: The results are almost infinitely editable. For example, one can delete wrong notes or drag them onto the right ones.

Tags: software engineering, notes, music, section

[10 Oct 2007]

Doubletalk Detection Using Real Time Recurrent Learning

whitepaper The paper uses three detectors - two of these are frequency domain signal detectors, one at the far-end and one at the microphone channel. The third detector determines the relative level of near-end speech vs.far-end echo in the microphone signal.

Tags: voice recognition, signal, microphone, detector

[19 Jul 2007]

PING: A Group-to-Individual Distributed Meeting System

whitepaper To address these issues, this paper presents PING, a system explicitly designed for G2I distributed meetings that combines recent advances in both hardware, e.g.microphone arrays, remote person stand-in devices, and software, e.g.audio-video...

Tags: video conferencing, participants, meetings, participant

[19 Jul 2007]

Microphone Array for Headset With Spatial Noise Suppressor

whitepaper This paper presents a hybrid microphone array architecture used for processing the signals from a small microphone array that is used in a headset. The algorithm was tested with a headset that used a three element microphone array.

Tags: sound components, array, noise, microphone

[31 May 2007]

A Compact Multi-Sensor Headset for Hands-Free Communication

whitepaper Unfortunately, this size constraint typically requires that the microphone be placed farther from the user's mouth, making it highly susceptible to environmental noise. One long term goal of the work is to develop a headset that can achieve the...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, led, mouth, microphone

[31 May 2007]

Computer Vision Technologies for Remote Collaboration Using Physical Whiteboards, Projectors and Cameras

whitepaper This paper presents the work in developing tools to facilitate collaboration on physical whiteboards by using a camera and a microphone. A whiteboard provides a large shared space for the participants to focus their attention and express their...

Tags: application development, camera, whiteboard, physical

[25 May 2007]

Energy-Based Sound Source Localization and Gain Normalization for Ad Hoc Microphone Arrays

whitepaper This paper presents an energy-based technique to estimate both microphone and speaker/talker locations from an ad hoc network of microphones. An example of such ad hoc microphone network is a set of microphones built in the laptops that some...

Tags: laptops, ad hoc, technique, ad

[23 May 2007]

Location and Mobility in a Sensor Network of Mobile Phones

whitepaper Mobile phones have two sensors: a camera and a microphone. The goal in this position paper it to explore the use of these sensors for building an audio-visual sensor network that exploits the deployed base of millions of mobile phones worldwide.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, sensor, nodes, device

[23 May 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: When will the net become intelligent?

Comment Of course this may be expanded to include the built-in camera and microphone but without the deserving impact we might expect of such sophistication. Written in a garden at Lower Ufford, Suffolk, surrounded by wildlife on a beautiful sunny day, and...

Tags: pcs, artificial intelligence, internet

[22 May 2007]

$100 laptop exec blasts desktop security

News There are a bunch of programs that ship with all major operating systems - including Linux, Mac OS and Windows - that can format your hard drive, spy on your computer, spy on you with your microphone and camera and turn over control of your...

Tags: desktop security, security

[21 May 2007]

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