Speech recognition (SR) is a computer application that allows a computer to recognize sound waves and synthesize them as an audio stream, transcribe them as written text, or process them as recognizable commands, thus allowing control of the computer by voice. Usually, users dictate to a computer through a microphone. The application then samples and digitizes the sound waves … [Read more...]

Over the past few months, I have received a number of different emails from people trying to scam me. They were from different “companies”, they had different approaches, different pseudonyms, but they all had one same goal. One of the emails was for an interpreting job. They accepted my rate, and additional fees, without any hesitation and they offered to pay me before I even … [Read more...]

Recently the Tonight Show had the legendary comedian Bill Cosby as a guest. Besides cracking me up and robbing me of my precious hours of sleep, he joked around with different expressions that are part of our day-to-day conversations. One especially struck a chord with me: “I just want to make sure we are on the same page.” This idiom, commonly used to confirm we are talking … [Read more...]