One of my tasks is to identify the reference applications that will ship with the next version of Speech Server. Before I prejudice the jury with how we are thinking about reference applications I'd like your feedback. This will be an on-going discussion and I expect to make many posts about this as I hear from you.

Reference applications are sample applications that ship with the product to demonstrate a particular feature set. The code is free for download and review, and we step people through how to create the application in a tutorial format.

Some sample applications that shipped with the v1.x product:

Speech-Enabled Fitch and Mather Stocks Application (FMStocksVoice)
Speech Application SDK -- contained a number of sample applications.

So, to get started, what do you want reference applications to do? How would they best help you? What is the gold standard of reference applications for you? If you were Speech Server, what would be the best reference applications you would develop?

I want to hear from everyone: developers, manager, executives, evaluators, sales, etc. If you don't want to respond publicly on the thread please feel free to contact me directly using the contact link above this post.

Let me say this now: I can't take the covers off our plans for the next release. As we publicly announce details I'll be sure to include them into this conversation and this blog.

Cheers!
Chris

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