At a hackathon back in April (which was sponsored in part by Microsoft), some friends and I made a very similar working version [1] relying on Google's line of

At a hackathon back in April (which was sponsored in part by Microsoft), some friends and I made a very similar working version [1] relying on Google's line of products and the results were astonishingly good. Alas, it only works on Chrome due to the speech api used is the built in chrome one. It seems that Microsoft did something very similar to our implementation, by simply daisy chaining existing language processing tools they had to make this addition to Skype. [1] http://goo.gl/3wC6b7 http://goo.gl/3wC6b7