New Bing Speech Recognition Control and Updated Bing OCR and Translator Controls

At the BUILD conference in June, we announced three broad categories of capabilities the new Bing platform would deliver to developers: Services to bring entities and the world’s knowledge to your applications, services to enable your applications to deliver more natural and intuitive user experiences, and services which bring an awareness of the physical world into
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Interested in speech on Windows Phone 8? MVVM and Bing

For the last decade, Rob Chambers, Program Management Lead in Bing, has been working on speech technology. He recently wrote a helpful article on the MVVM (Model, View, View Model) pattern and speech for Windows Phone 8 that features his app, Go Search On.   While the app is targeted at understanding the MVVM paradigm, there is a lot of logic and implementation
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Bing at //build 2013 In Review

On June 26th we announced Bing as a platform, uniting the intelligent services that power Bing.com and making these capabilities available to 3rd party developers via new APIs and controls.  Several talks and educational sessions were given during BUILD that highlighted Bing’s new developer services, including the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) control for Windows 8
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Introducing The New Bing Developer Center and Services

Today at Build 2013 we announced a new set of developer services and the new Bing Developer Center.  This effort is part of our larger goal of empowering developers to take advantage of the enormous investments that we’ve made in search technologies.  Together, these comprise an ‘Intelligent Fabric’ that we use across Microsoft products to
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