Speech enable your Windows Phone 8 app with Tim Binkley-Jones

As our everyday devices become more powerful, speaking to machines and receiving verbal responses is becoming commonplace. Windows Phone 8 opens up the speech capabilities of the operating system to developers and allows users to not only open an app, but give it commands to perform actions. Once the app is open, it can accept additional commands and data via voice while prompting the user in a synthesized voice. In this talk, we will look at the three of the Speech APIs included in Windows Phone 8 - Text-to-Speech, Voice Commands, and Speech Recognition.

Tim Binkley-Jones is the author of the book Windows Phone 8 in Action, by Manning Publications. Tim is a Windows Phone enthusiast and a staff engineer in the Enterprise Management group of VMware, Inc.

Schedule:

5:45 - 6:00 - Food/Networking
6:00 - 6:10 - Welcome & Announcements
6:10-6:45 - Pre-Game show - TBD* (None scheduled, let us know if you want to do it!)
6:45-7:05 - Networking/Break
7:05-8:30 - Main Presentation - Speech enable your Windows Phone 8 app with Tim Binkley-Jones

• • If no Pre-game show talk is scheduled, we will start the main presentation at 6:30.