John Lawrence (MSFT)

As I mentioned in my last post , we've been working on some tools to analyze and report against the copious logs that are generated by the Microsoft Speech Server. What started as a bit of a stretch goal for us to at least have something in the product...

Kai-Fu Lee's official keynote: http://www.ftponline.com/reports/vslivesf/2004/lee/ Picture gallery at: http://www.ftponline.com/reports/vslivesf/2004/photos/ # In particular take a look at Bill visiting the speech stand http://www.ftponline.com...

It's been a long time since I posted. My excuse is that we've been in crunch mode working hard to get everything ready for the launch this week. At one point in the product cycle I had mistakenly thought that things were well under control and that...

Speech Server 2004 has been launched! After 5 years of working towards this day I can say that it's been amazing to see everything finally coming together so well. The demos worked flawlessly - the keynote speeches from both Bill and Kai Fu were extremely...

Richard Irving demonstrating the grammar editor Richard showing off the richer (and complex) power of the speech DataTableNavigator control Richard getting animated about the extremely “sexy“ tools he is talking about!

Richard just sent me this link to the video of Bill Gates' keynote speech including the launch and demo of Microsoft Speech Server 2004. http://www.ftponline.com/reports/vslivesf/2004/gates/

Complete transcription of Bill's speech - including a transcription of all the demos and the accompanying powerpoint slides are here . The Speech Server section is the last 1/3 of the speech - just search for “Speech Server“ http://www...

Bill announcing the launch of Microsoft Speech Server 2004 Richard demonstrating the Prompt Editor tool in the Speech Application SDK Richard calling up the application he's just authored live. Tense moments... One of the Microsoft...

One of the most frequent questions I was asked at the booth at VSLive/SpeechTek was whether the Speech Application SDK required Whidbey/VisualStudio 2005. I think, this was largely because the other demos during Bill Gates' speech were of features new...

Story in Computerworld about Microsoft Speech Server's early adopters . My favorite quote: “By using its familiar Visual Studio tools, Pritchett said, SAICS was able to develop and deploy its application using Speech Server for at least...