August 07, 2006

MS Demo Backwash

Based on the 8/5/2006 and 8/7/2006 User Friendly strips, I'd say that the mud kicked up by the Big Redmond Demo Disaster is sticking to speech technology in general, more than to Microsoft's speech technology in particular:

That's too bad, given that it was really a bug in some general automatic gain control code for Vista audio "capture streams" (at least that's how I read the discussion here).

Posted by Mark Liberman at August 7, 2006 05:39 AM