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VOIP Gateways....

Published 11 November 7 4:2 PM | William

I know after my UG presentation a few weeks ago many of you are asking about VOIP Gateways. Marshall Harrison over at GotSpeech is really the goto guy on this, he was the one that tipped me off to where to get them. Start your search Here . Marshall recommended...

Filed under: Speech Server, VOIP

I'm presenting on Speech Server 07 at the Atlanta .NET Users Group

Published 29 October 7 1:30 AM | William

If you are in Atlanta and at all interested in building speech enabled applications, I'll be presenting tomorrow at the Altanta DNUG . The meeting starts at 6:00 and the presentation commences at 7:15. I hope to see you there.

Filed under: Speech Server, User Group Presentations

Speech Server 2007!!!!!!

Published 2 February 7 1:55 AM | William

Marshall has got the scoop

Filed under: News, Speech Server

A great guy makes MVP

Published 3 July 6 11:56 PM | William

Well, I've seen quite a few of my friends make MVP ( Scott , Chris , Sahil , Tobin , Brian to name just a few) but now I can add one more. . Not only did Marshall get the Microsoft MVP Award , it appears they added a group for Speech Server which is awesome...

Filed under: Speech Server, MVP Stuff

HttpModule for Dynamic Grammars

Published 2 June 6 5:58 PM | William

In a few minutes, I'm doing my presentation on Tips & Tricks with Speech Server. One of my new tricks is using a HttpModule to build a Dynamic Grammar. Greg Young was the one that came up with the idea and he deserves *full credit* for it - it's a...

Filed under: Speech Server, Misc Technology

Speech Server Days - Ft. Lauderdale

Published 2 June 6 3:0 PM | William

Here in Ft. Lauderdale. Delays were nuts b/c I flew through Charlotte, and all the planes coming in from Florida were delayed. Anyway, got here last night and all was good. Finally got to meet Marshal Harrison and his wife. Even cooler than I thought...

Filed under: Speech Server, Misc Technology

Win a 'BrookTrout TR1000 For Microsoft Speech Server' Kit

Published 5 May 6 8:12 PM | William

You've probably seen this already, but figured I'd mention it in case you haven't. The good folks at GotSpeech and Cantata are raffling off a TR1000 kit. Details available here .

Filed under: Speech Server

Phenomenal Speech Server Development tool

Published 5 May 6 1:54 PM | William

Hopefully I can do a full update later this evening about Speech Server Days in Atlanta. (The next one is in Ft. Lauderdale on June 2, 2006 and will be way cool) The host of the event was Cantata Technology and they have an awesome developer's kit . Awesome...

Filed under: Speech Server

I'll be speaking at Speech Server Days

Published 19 April 6 1:33 PM | William

I'll be speaking at Two Speech Server Days Events . I have one presentation on May 3 in Atlanta and one in Ft. Lauderdale on June 2nd. Marshall Harrison is going to be speaking as well at the Ft. Lauderdale event, so finally I get to meet him. If you...

Filed under: Speech Server, Me, .NET General

Text To Speech Ideas?

Published 18 April 6 5:1 AM | William

I've been getting back into my Speech Server book and well, there's a lot to it. My 4th chapter covers Grammars in depth and is a lot longer than I anticpated. If you do much speech work, they you know that Grammars are everything and ostensibly the most...

Filed under: Speech Server, Books

Book Update

Published 16 April 6 7:41 PM | William

A few of you have asked so I figured I'd mention a general update on my Speech Server book. Chapter 1-3 are in the bag and I'm just about done with Chapter 4. Chapter 1 covers your standard technology introduction a brief description of the tools you...

Filed under: Speech Server, Books

Ideas Wanted

Published 5 February 6 1:25 AM | William

Well, as I sit here swamped in more work than I ever imagined that I'd be lucky enough to have, I need to be proactive... As I've mentioned a few times, I think Sahil currently holds the high water mark for kick a55 . Ok, if I racked my little brain I...

Filed under: Speech Server, Books, Me

Kick a33

Published 5 June 5 10:18 PM | William

Casey Does it again Totally kick a55.

Filed under: Speech Server

Fedex API

Published 28 May 5 3:38 PM | William

Since Web Services have become cool, I've tried to do as much with major commercial ones as I can. The problem is that in professional terms, I haven't had many requirements where I really needed to use them. I'm written some utilities for my own use...

Filed under: Speech Server, Me, .NET General, Misc Technology

Holding my feet to the fire

Published 16 May 5 11:27 PM | William

Chris Williams took notice and layed down the guantlet. With kind words like his, coupled with such a good challenge, I must make it so.... It will happen.

Filed under: Speech Server, Me, Misc Technology

Atlanta Code Camp

Published 16 May 5 7:34 PM | William

I'm late to blogging this one, but I'm sure everyone else has covered it. All in all it was a great event. Had a rather hectic beginning though. 5:00 Am on Saturday, Kim and I haeded to the airport to rent a car. Unfortunately, Greenville/Spartanburg...

Filed under: News, Speech Server, Misc Technology, Code Camps

My Speech Server is all the way thug

Published 25 April 5 5:24 PM | William

So far, I'm throwing a few ideas around to really make my upcoming code camp presentations good. I just ask myself “What would Casey Chesnut ” do and then I get good ideas. So I was playing around with it, and started putting in Lyrics to...

Filed under: News, Speech Server, Me

Speech Server, Book Writing, Code Camps and Pimped out rides

Published 24 April 5 1:42 AM | William

For the last week, things have gotten kind of weird in my life. And by most standards, I'm pretty friggin weird to begin with. I stared working with Wally McClure on writing a book and so far, things have been going really well. But so far I've only encountered...

Filed under: Speech Server, MVP Stuff, Me, .NET General, Coding Techniques