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Strategies for creating prompt database for multilingual applications

Recently a customer contacted me with a question about creating multilingual applications with Speech Server. He had an application that ran in English and US Spanish and noticed that, while changing the synthesizer would switch TTS between languages, Read More...
Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 4:29 PM by jcalev | 1 Comments

Es-Us and Es-Mx locale confusion

Recently I answered an issue where a customer was confused because sometimes we use the Es-Mx locale for the Es-Us language pack. The reason we have to do this is Windows Server 2003 does not have an Es-Us locale. If you try to create such a locale, you Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:46 AM by jcalev | 0 Comments

What should I use to write Speech Server applications?

Recently, I have seen a few posts on other blogs asking what should one use to create speech server applications. To review, there are four ways to write speech server applications in OCS 2007. 1) Windows Workflow Activities 2) Core API (basically managed Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:10 AM by jcalev | 0 Comments

Developing applications for OCS - where do I start?

In a recent post, I presented an overview of all of the different APIs available in Office Communications Server 2007. The goal of that post was to help direct developers who want to know where to start. From that post I received some feedback that this Read More...
Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 10:14 AM by jcalev | 7 Comments

An overview of the APIs in Office Communications Server 2007

Over time I have discussed all of the different APIs available to you in order to create Office Communications Server 2007 APIs. Today I thought I would do an overview of what's available and when you would use each one. Office Communicator API Example: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:24 AM by jcalev | 5 Comments

More info about the answers for yesterday's quiz

The following is more information about why each answer is correct for the quiz I presented yesterday. If you have not already taken the quiz, please skip this blog entry and go to yesterday's, then come back to this entry for any explanations. 1) To Read More...
Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 9:16 AM by jcalev | 0 Comments

An Office Communications Server 2007 Quiz

For a little fun today, I decided to put together a little test for those who think they know Office Communications Server. Think of this as a fun little exercise that will help you learn OCS and help me learn what topics to blog about in the future. Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:53 AM by jcalev | 2 Comments

How to create DTMF applications using the new TTS languages

OK, say you're a company in Rome, Taipei, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Madrid, Sydney, Tokyo, or Seoul that is excited about the new TTS languages supported by Speech Server 2007 and you want to create an application. What do you need to know? The Read More...
Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 5:09 AM by jcalev | 1 Comments

Speech Server says "Bom dia"

Yesterday I announced that Speech Server 2007, which will ship as part of Office Communications Server 2007, will ship with nine additional TTS languages. For me, it was very exciting to be able to announce this because that was the first time I have Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 5:49 AM by jcalev | 1 Comments

Announcing nine new TTS languages for Speech Server!

Today I am very happy to announce that Speech Server 2007 will support nine additional sythesizers when it ships. This will enable the creation of DTMF applications in a number of new locales throughout the world. The new languages with voices are Mandarin Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:38 PM by jcalev | 2 Comments

Creating bots in UCMA - Part II - Using grammars instead of parsing

In our last bot post I wrote about creating a bot that accepts a message from Communicator and sends a response. The response logic was very crude. We simply looked for certain words in the message from the client and sent back an appropriate response. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:04 PM by jcalev | 0 Comments

The DetectAnsweringMachine activity

At long last I have finished a post on the new DetectAnsweringMachine activity in the latest Beta. While writing this post, there were a number of things that were confusing to me so I hope this information helps. I write a post some time ago about detecting Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:46 AM by jcalev | 0 Comments

A short note about simulating unsupported engines

I have received a number of replies concerning my posts on how to simulate unsupported languages using phonemes. I must apologize that the intention of the post was to show how to use a hack to get "some" support in cases where you need to recognize something Read More...
Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 10:58 AM by jcalev | 1 Comments

How to approximate phonemes for a non supported language

Yesterday I wrote about how to create a grammar for a language for which we do not have a recognition engine. The post ended with a question on how to best approximate the phonemes for a target word. As I mentioned yesterday, my first attempts at approximation Read More...
Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 3:15 AM by jcalev | 1 Comments

How to recognize languages for which there is no recognizer

This is the first part of a two part post where I will tackle the problem of creating grammars in a target language for which no recognition engine exists. My goal was to create a simple GRXML grammar capable of recognizing a few phrases in Mandarin Chinese. Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:53 AM by jcalev | 1 Comments
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