Entries tagged with speech server - Channel 9

Ben Brauer and Richard Sprague: Response Point

Dan Fernandez — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:32:00 GMT

Ben Brauer and Richard Sprague from Microsoft Research show off Response Point, a new Microsoft technology that makes it easy for small businesses to setup a professional phone system using voice over IP, speech recognition (using the Speech Server voice recognition engine), inbox voice mail, and more, all at a fraction of the cost. As mentioned in the demo, you can actually call Richard's Response Point phone number and try it out yourself!

geekSpeak recording: Speech Server with Michael Dunn

glengo — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:32:20 GMT

In this geekSpeak (or maybe we should say "geekSpeech") we explore Microsoft Speech Server technologies, focusing on Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.

After covering how Speech Server is now incorporated into OCS 2007, we talk about how it now supports industry standards for building IVR applications like SALT and VoiceXML. Michael shows a cool demo of creating a voice response workflow using the new designers based on Windows Workflow Foundation, which is incredibly easy to use.

It's pretty exciting to see how integrated this technology is with .NET so you can do things like utilize WCF, make web service calls, reuse a data access or business logic layer, program in C# or VB, etc.

Some great quesitons came through on the geekSpeak including using Speech Server with robotics as well as how to manage grammar, keywords, and concept answers. Michael also helps us understand considerations for design your voice UI around speech recognition versus DTMF (touch-tones).

We also touch on testing approaches as well as how to work with systems such as Skype and Vonage.

For more resources on Speech Server technologies, go to http://www.microsoft.com/speech as well as Michael's blog http://gotspeech.net/blogs/michaeldunn .

Let us know through here and the geekSpeak blog what you'd like to see geekSpeaks in the future cover.

LitwareHR SaaS Sample Application - Tenant Provisioning

aschapiro — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:23:10 GMT

LitwareHR is a SaaS reference implementation application that provides recruitment management software. This application was released in February as part of Microsoft's SaaS architecture guidance. You can get more information on LitwareHR's community site at codeplex.

Once the This screencast shows the "behind the scenes" actions this service does:

creates one virtual folder and two virtual directories in IIS for tenant's public and private sites
adds tenant basic information in MetadataStore database
inserts default tenant preferences in MetadataStore database, such as entity extension fields, workflow definitions and rulesets
creates the view filter for the position entity
creates an sql view that the tenant will use to retrieve the position entity fields
creates an Organizational Unit (OU) in the Authorization store (ADAM) with users and roles support

Visit LitwareHR community site at codeplex to download the code, get more information and news, to participate in discussions, ask for features or report bugs.

Duration: 10:58

TechNet Radio - We Answer Your Exchange Server 2007 Questions

auroraqueen — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:40:49 GMT

In this episode Kevin Remde speaks with Exchange experts to answer your pressing questions on Exchange Server 2007. Topics include Deployment, Unified Messaging, Disaster Avoidance & Recovery in Exchange Server 2007.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Kevin Remde – IT Pro Evangelist

Charlie Chung – Charlie Chung is a Program Manager for the System Management team for Exchange Server focusing on deployment for Exchange.

David Howell – David Howell is a Group Program Manager on the Exchange team, focusing on Unified Messaging.

Ayla Kohl – Ayla Kohl is a Program Manager on the Exchange Team focusing on Disaster Recovery.

What's Microsoft Speech Server (Beta)?

Charles — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:08:20 GMT

"Microsoft Speech Server 2007 (Beta) is Microsoft's state-of-the-art Interactive Voice Response platform (IVR) that allows developers to build, deploy and maintain Voice Response applications using touch tone or speech recognition and synthesis."

That's the marketing pitch. Here, Mithun Dhar, Albert Kooiman and David Ollasonwe explain to us what that actually means....

What's Microsoft Speech Server (Beta)?

Charles — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:08:06 GMT

"Microsoft Speech Server 2007 (Beta) is Microsoft's state-of-the-art Interactive Voice Response platform (IVR) that allows developers to build, deploy and maintain Voice Response applications using touch tone or speech recognition and synthesis." That's the marketing pitch. Here, we find out what that actually means...