Good way to start programming for PixelSense - pixelsense

I'd like to start to program for Microsoft Surface 1.0. Do you have any recommendations for good introductions in this topic?

Check this pdf file to start with -
http://www.cs.uml.edu/~holly/teaching/91550/fall2009/handouts/lab2/XNA%20Quick%20Start.pdf

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What is the best mobile "text-to-speech" and "speech-to-text" tool for both android and IOS?

Would you please help me to find out the best mobile "text-to-speech" and "speech-to-text" tool for both android and IOS?
I searched the web and found some tools such as:
For Speech to Text(STT):
1.react-native-voice
2.RNSpeakChat
3.Using Google Cloud
4.SpeechRecognizer
5.react-native-watson
6.react-speech-recognition
7.react-native-speech-recognition
and for text to speech (TTS):
1.react-native-tts
2.react-native-watson
3.react-native-speech
But I couldn't find which one is the best choice. Would you please help me in this regard?
Thanks in advance
For Speech to text you can refer this article as it explains precisely and also it uses react-native-voice as its an easy library to get started with . react-native-speech-to-text
For text-to-speech functionality, as per documentation of react-native-tts looks simple. you could implement that.
Hope it helps. feel free for doubts

Adobe Premiere scripting

I want to automate a sequence of task on Adobe Premiere Pro CS6,
thats all repeating tasks, and while doing manually consumes lots of time, :)
that stars from: importing video file, image files, doc file-> making a sequence -> adding files on sequence with predefined height , width-> inserting scripts -> analyzing them -> adding marks on particular word on metadata-> and finally exporting it..
I want to make all these task automatically done with some scripts on adobe premier pro or anythign else...
appreciating
Premiere is scriptable, as are the other Adobe Creative Suite apps, using their Extendscript API. Extendscript uses javascript. There's an official Adobe IDE for it called Extendscript Toolkit, that has a script editor, debugger and a object model viewer.
There's one problem, for premiere the documentation is perplexingly scarce. It's a pity, because for other programs like After Effects there is a thriving community of developers doing amazing stuff with extendscript.
The Adobe Javascript guide is here and some class information specifically for Premiere can be found here.
If you are on the PC platform, try having a look at a free windows automation package such a AutoIT or AutoHotKey. I have been using AutoHotKey for several years now and this tool can be used to automate pretty much anything you can think of. It is a scriping language, there is a learning curve, but easy to use if you follow the many tuts and samples out there.
It doesn't seem to be officially supported, mentioned or used much (maybe because most user think programming is 'nerdy' stuff and don't touch it?) - anyways:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5310306
Unfortunately the documentation is scare and I don't know which version may support scripting (and which OS).

How to Learn Prism for Silverlight Fast?

I need to make Silverlight application With Prism. What could be best way to learn to make simple application with Silverlight + Prism? Also suggest any Good books for same.
Thanks.
I also have the book mentioned by 'daageu', and would also recommend it.
But to accelerate the process of learning Prism even faster, I recommend the video series presented by Mike Taulty and available for free on Channel 9.
It's a nine part series, and his introduction to the Unity Container, for example, is about the best you'll get, and you'll be up to speed on that component in about an hour.
Once you have downloaded and watched the videos, you can use the book as a vehicle to become an expert.
NOTE: actually, the 'quick starts' included in the kit are pretty transparent and understandable as well...
Great book, I started with this book myself:
Developer’s Guide to Microsoft® Prism 4: Building Modular MVVM Applications with Windows® Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight®
look this url, it will be helpful for you: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/229931/Understand-MVVM-Using-PRISM-by-Hello-World-Silverl

Setting up Voice Commands in my VB.net application

I wanted to put voice command options into my application. I read stuff online about grammers and SAPI but I can't seem to figure out how to actually use it in my VB.net applications. Does anybody know of any good guides or tutorials for me to use to get started on the subject?
Thanks :)
There is a pretty good tutorial with code sample here that provides a fairly thorough walkthrough of the APIs and discusses the differences between SAPI 5.1 and 5.3.

Sample application for Microsoft PixelSense?

Do you guys came across any sample application (i need source code of the app) for Microsoft PixelSense in web?
Guys after googling lot i have collected few useful links to start coding on surface environtment.
http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC17/#Page
http://ctlabs.blogspot.com/search/label/Surface
http://robertbunn.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/converting-wpf-apps-to-surface-apps-part-1/
http://www.aboutmicrosoftsurface.com/features-of-microsoft-surface.php
if you guys come across any useful post for surface please post your answers.
You will need the Surface SDK 1.0 which is not available thru an official source.
You can now download the Surface SDK with sample applications from the Surface Partner site. If you have access to the Surface Community site there are more advanced applications without source there.