Thoughts on speech API topics
I've been chatting with quite a few people on the team this week about what categories of posts would be interesting and relevant (and inserting "that's a great idea, you should blog it" into each conversation :-). I'm thinking these three broad categories will work well for this blog:
- "What's new", and what can be done with it. When we release new APIs, you can bet I'll be talking about them here. In fact, come to think of it, our existing APIs are pretty powerful and useful. I should talk about them too.
- Multi-modal UI design. Combining speech and GUI in an application can result in a pretty powerful UI, not only for scenarios where your user isn't staring at a screen or hovering their hands over a keyboard & mouse, but also as a simplifier for complex GUIs.
- "How-to" for common speech UI implementation challenges, like dictating long serial numbers into fields, highlighting words as they're read, etc., that can be challenging to implement the first time. So I figure some how-to's should save you some time and help avoid some pit-falls if you ever need to implement any of these.
Anyway, if there's anything else you'd like me to talk about, let me know.
Also check out some other speech bloggers I work with: Richard and Jen