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Kunal Mukerjee shared an idea in Microsoft Corporation on May 14, 2009 17:17:

New touch enabled Recite download available. Come get it!

Hi guys -

The Recite team has updated with a new version that supports touch and D-pad. Please try it out and let us know what you think: A new download is available @http://recite.microsoft.com that is touch enabled.

Thanks!

Kunal Mukerjee replied on March 24, 2009 14:10 to the idea "Use of tags in Microsoft Recite" in Microsoft Corporation:

This is actually a very interesting question of UI design in the context of user perception. If we had added tags, then some users might have expected that when they queried by saying the tag, the program should work better because it should somehow "match the tag". But in fact we are doing pattern matching and not string matching (we don't do transcription), and so this perception could have been mis-leading.

Alternatively, we could have provided a text based querying mechanism, so the user could query their tags instead of, or in addition to voice based query.

For the initial release we decided to go with the simplest and most un-ambiguous design. In future we will definitely take your feedback and input into consideration.

Thanks very much :-).

Kunal Mukerjee replied on March 16, 2009 15:43 to the praise "Innovate , Integrate , Phone in" in Microsoft Corporation:

Thanks for your interest and great feedback Eddie. Please stay tuned for future developments.

Kunal Mukerjee replied on March 12, 2009 11:51 to the question "Recite Record Length" in Microsoft Corporation:

Yes, this version of Recite limits the record length to 1 minute. The maximum query length is limited to around 20 seconds.

Thanks.

Kunal Mukerjee replied on March 11, 2009 12:07 to the question "Multi-Lingual Support in Recite" in Microsoft Corporation:

Hi Sanjeev,

We are not doing adaptation in this release of Recite.

Thanks.

Kunal

Kunal Mukerjee replied on March 03, 2009 15:03 to the problem "How do I delete Recite remembrances?" in Microsoft Corporation:

Hi Charles,

When a remembrance is highlighted, try pressing the right arrow button (or equivalent) on your touch pad. That ought to highlight the little "x" on the remembrance bubble. Select it. It should ask you if you want to delete it. Select yes.

Hope that helps.

Thanks.

Kunal Mukerjee replied on March 03, 2009 14:58 to the idea "Today page and Naming Rememberances" in Microsoft Corporation:

Both these are good ideas, and we actually had them in a previous prototype of Recite. We'll keep them in mind for the future.

Thanks.

Kunal Mukerjee replied on February 20, 2009 21:03 to the idea "New features that should be included in the final release" in Microsoft Corporation:

Hi there -

Thanks for your all of your suggestions to use compression instead of wav files, stylus support, saving to a memory card, text transcriptions, and a delete all option. We will give these requests due consideration in future.

At present we are unable to provide specifics about future releases of this application, but stay tuned.

Yours truly,

Microsoft staff :-)

Kunal Mukerjee replied on February 19, 2009 10:17 to the question "When will the API for Recite Speech Recognition be available?" in Microsoft Corporation:

Hi Sanjeev,

There is no current plan to release an API for Recite. However, we will take your feedback into account when planning for v.next.

Thank you.

Kunal Mukerjee replied on February 18, 2009 11:25 to the question "Multi-Lingual Support in Recite" in Microsoft Corporation:

Hi Sanjeev,

I am a researcher who worked on Recite. The technology works on matching speech patterns, i.e. it does not try to understand the language being used. So it should work on non-English languages.

However, in this version we trained the models on a broad cross section of US speakers, both native and non-native. The plan is to use the data we can gather from folks who download and user Recite in its current form to inform training strategies in the next phase of development.

Thanks for all your useful and insightful feedback on Recite.

Kunal Mukerjee replied on February 17, 2009 22:26 to the question "Is the algorithm behind Microsoft Recipe language-specific?" in Microsoft Corporation:

Hi aatnet,

I am a researcher who worked on Recite technology. Although the models are not very much biased towards English speakers, being in the US most of our test cases have been English speakers until this point.

The release of Recite is one way that we are hoping to gather data around how well it performs for different accents, native languages, etc. So your feedback is very valuable, and can help us in our model retraining for v.next.