The attendance at SpeechTEK West 2006 seems lighter than past years. One issue is that the technical sessions were in meeting rooms far away from the business sessions, so it was a little hard to tell just how many people were actually there in total. The business sessions were definitely more lightly attended than the… Read More: SpeechTEK West 2006 Day 1 »
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: SpeechTEK West 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: IBM Speech Reco Announcements »
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: St. Michael’s Church »
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: Gulf Coast Maritime and Seafood Museum »
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: Shrimp Po-Boys »
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: Google Map Bike Route Calculator »
This image has appeared in a lot of stories on Biloxi after Hurricane Katrina. The Golden Fisherman statue was originally located in downtown Biloxi in the mid 1970’s and was widely mocked at the time, perhaps because of the imagery of a fisherman casting a net into what was then a mostly run-down urban area.… Read More: The Golden Fisherman and Downtown Biloxi »
Point Cadet is one of the saddest sections to visit in Biloxi. At one point, we drove past three city blocks in which not a single building was left standing. This neighborhood with a deep, rich cultural heritage was once filled with many homes and businesses that survived Hurricane Camille. In the satellite photos after… Read More: Point Cadet »
I’ve finally processed all the photos from my trip to Biloxi earlier this month, so I’ll be uploading them with some background details over the next few days. The full set is already in my photo gallery. I don’t want to make it too easy for web spiders to grab all my photos, so you’ll… Read More: Biloxi – Ocean Springs Bridge »