All About Microsoft posted a story that Microsoft plans to add new speech-centric capabilities to Microsoft and third-party products in the coming year-plus

Microsoft’s consolidated speech technology unit, Tellme, is working with a number of product teams inside the company to make speech recognition and understanding a key component of a number of next-generation Microsoft offerings.

Microsoft execs have been demonstrating publicly how Windows Phones currently can handle spoken queries. With Mango, Windows Phones will support even more speech functions, including speech-to-text and text-to-speech. And the Kinect sensor is going to get more sophisticated voice-command support this fall, enabling users to use Bing to search for movies, TV, music and other content via voice. But within the coming year, even more Microsoft products and services are getting the speech recognition/understanding treatment.

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