Monthly Archives: January 2006

SpeechTEK West 2006

By | January 28, 2006

I’ll be at SpeechTEK West in San Francisco next week. If anyone reading this will be there, email me or post a comment if you want to meet up. I’ll be in Voxify’s booth on Wednesday. Stop by if you want to hear first hand about the great platform and speech application templates we’ve built,… Read More »

IBM Speech Reco Announcements

By | January 27, 2006

IBM made a couple announcements Tuesday regarding progress on their “superhuman speech recognition initiative”. Their goal is to get performance comparable to human speech recognition in the next five years. Presumably, they have also selected a starting point for the clock to start ticking, as the tired cliche about high quality speech recognition is that… Read More »

St. Michael’s Church

By | January 19, 2006

St. Michael’s church along the Biloxi beach also suffered a violent blow from Hurricane Katrina. While the upper parts of the church, including much of the stained glass windows that go all the way around the building, mostly survived, nearly everything from about eight feet down was washed away. This bell was near the front… Read More »

Gulf Coast Maritime and Seafood Museum

By | January 14, 2006

One of the many tragic outcomes of Hurricane Katrina has been the destruction of the historical treasures of Biloxi. Fortunately, many of these artifacts had been photographed because they were publicly accessible in the Gulf Coast Maritime and Seafood Museum. Of course, being located at the Museum put the artifacts directly in the path of… Read More »

Shrimp Po-Boys

By | January 11, 2006

My favorite sandwich, and possibly my favorite meal of any kind, is a shrimp po-boy. A proper shrimp po-boy should be made with French bread dressed with shredded lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise (i.e., “dressed”) and overflowing with medium-sized, deep-fried shrimp. The bread should be a long hoagie style roll. Either a chewy roll or a… Read More »

Google Map Bike Route Calculator

By | January 11, 2006

My brother sent me a link a few weeks ago to yet another cool Google Map mash-up. This one allows you to measure the distance between two points on a map via connected line segments. This is particularly useful to me in estimating the length of a bike ride on a route I haven’t yet… Read More »