Speech Enabled Applications with Microsoft Live Communication Server
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Speaker: Bill Ryan
In the past, building Speech Enabled applications was for many developers, elusive. Although the initial incarnations of Microsoft Speech Server made building speech enabled applications a lot more accessible, it was still a bit daunting because so many aspects of development were highly specific to Speech Server. Microsoft Live Communication Server has changed all of that. Now, developers can use very familiar technologies such as Workflows coupled with many new speech specific controls to build really complex applications quickly and easily. While it's no magic bullet, it does open the doors of Speech development to any .NET Programmer interested in building them. This presentation will start with a quick tour of the development tools for speech server and proceed to build a few different speech enabled applications. By the end of the presentation, any .NET Developer familiar with Workflow foundation should be able to build a working speech enabled application. If time permits, the new Speech Features of Windows Vista will be covered as well.
About the speaker: Bill Ryan is a Technology Evangelist with Magenic Technologies' Southeastern Office. He spends his life glued to his computer. He's currently a Microsoft MVP in Device Application Development and has earned the MVP designation in Windows Embedded for the last 4 years. Bill has authored several books including two MCTS Training Kits for Microsoft Press (70-536 and 70-529), ADO.NET 2.0 and Indigo. He speaks frequently at .NET User groups, Code Camps and MSDN Webcasts.
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As an aside, my homie Marshall Harrison is in Columbia, SC this week and I'll be heading over to do dinner and hopefully have some of his brilliance rub off on me. Marshall runs GotSpeech.NET and in the short time it's been in operation, it's quickly grown into the preeminent Microsoft Speech Server community. It's full of great content from brilliant people and if you have any interest in speech development, it's *the* site to go to. Additionally, Marshall usually has some of the coolest speech tech around so he's a great resource to have before buying things. He just recommended my latest purchase and man I can't wait until it gets here. Hopefully before Kim arrives so I don't end up having to buy her one too - she's on this kick these days where any time I get some cool piece of technology, she wants one too. I thought having a girlfriend that was into high tech stuff would be cool - until I got one. What's worst is when she gets stuff better than mine and rubs it in, or shows me how my own stuff works. But i digress....