Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis in Universal Windows Apps 21 September 2014 Diederik-Krols Universal Windows Apps, Windows Phone, WinRT This article introduces you to speech recognition (speech-to-text, STT) and speech synthesis (text-to-speech, TTS) in a Universal Windows XAML app. It comes with a sample app – code attached at the end- that has buttons for opening the standard UI for speech recognition, opening a custom UI for sp... [More]
Weird localization problem in DAX editor 17 September 2014 Nico-Jacobs Business Intelligence, Excel, Power BI, SQL Server BI One of my students (thanks, Stefan!) discovered during the PowerBI course a bizarre localization issue in the DAX editor of Excel and SQL Server Data Tools, which is easy to replicate: Install Office 2013 or SQL Server data tools on a machine with a locale which uses a comma as decimal separator (I... [More]
Excel Power Query supports Multi-value Lookup columns in SharePoint lists 15 September 2014 Nico-Jacobs Business Intelligence, Excel, Power BI Power Query is a handy tool to load all sorts of data in Excel or PowerBI. One of the supported data types is SharePoint lists. But Power Query does more than the straight-forward loading of data in a single list. If a SharePoint list contains a lookup column referring to another list, Power Query w... [More]