You can use device based speech recognition without sending your voice data to Microsoft. However, the Microsoft cloud based speech recognition technologies providemore accurate recognition than the device based speech recognition. When the Online speech recognition setting is turned off, speech services that don’t rely on the cloud and only use device based recognition like the Narrator app or the Windows Speech Recognition app will still work, and Microsoft won’t collect any voice data..

Five experiments were designed to evaluate the effectiveness of “high variability” lexical training in improving the ability of normal hearing subjects to perceive noise vocoded speech that had been spectrally shifted to simulate tonotopic misalignment. Two approaches to training were implemented. One training approach required subjects to recognize isolated words, while the other training approach required subjects to recognize words in sentences.

As New York Times columnist Paul Krugman once noted, any “Econ 101 student can tell you” that “higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.” Indeed, for a long time, there was a strong consensus on the matter. Today, Krugman, who has seen the light, uses unconvincing argumentum ad populum to bolster his case for raising the minimum wage, as it “is immensely popular; it’s supported by around 70 percent of voters, including a substantial majority of self identified Republicans.” Even those extremists, strewn across the wastelands of middle America, get it, I guess. And though Krugman doesn’t mention his own expedient partisan conversion on the issue, he notes: It’s true that once upon a time there was a near consensus among economists that minimum wages substantially reduced employment.

And come next week, there a three day weekend crammed full of events to look forward to.Here are three good ones to check out:Niagara Falls, the 37th annual St. Friday, and presented by the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Rev. James J. Bred: While volunteering for service in Vietnam as a naval officer, he was awarded a Bronze Star, a Silver Star, and three Purple Hearts. Upon his return home, Kerry became an antiwar activist and, on April 22, 1971, the first Vietnam veteran to testify before Congress. Following stints as an assistant district attorney and the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, Kerry would, after his election to the Senate in 1984, go on to serve for 28 years on the same committee he had stood before in 1971, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.