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Thoughts on testing speech applications

Personally, I feel one area that we did not address overly well in Speech Server is allowing developers to test their speech applications. Granted, this seems to be missing from many platforms these days but I think in the case of speech applications

UCMA ships!

UCMA has finally shipped! For those of you who would like to download it, the full download is at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b30306e4-7dc1-44d2-9a68-9b4a6fc5c2df If you would like to see a webcast about UCMA, see the following.

Some common UCMA questions

Every once in awhile (though somewhat more commonly now) I receive an e-mail or IM asking a question on the UCMA API. I decided to post the answers to some of the most common questions. Where can I download UCMA? - The release candidate is at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b30306e4-7dc1-44d2-9a68-9b4a6fc5c2df&DisplayLang=en

Connection managers and endpoint types in UCMA

I have a sneaking suspicion that many of you who use UCMA do not truly know when one should use SipPeerToPeerEndpoint vs SipEndpoint and when one should use RealTimeClientConnectionManager vs one of the RealTimeServerConnectionManagers. In this post I

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

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:

Integrating presence into your applications

I have seen a lot of questions lately asking how one can add presence to a communications application. There are a number of ways to do this, but I don't think we have done a great job explaining what they are. First, and perhaps what has confused people

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

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.

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.

Hello from TechEd

I am currently at the TechEd conference and it has been a very rewarding experience so far. It's amazing to hear what everyone is using our product for - many of them ideas I had never thought of. It's also interesting learning about the other pieces

Using UCMA to create clients

I hope my recent blog series on the UCMA API was helpful for everyone. If you would like me to cover other details please let me know. In the near future I will continue to blog about applications for UCMA. However, I would like to point out the UCMA

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 16 - TimerWheel

Let’s say you are not sure a particular endpoint exists at a certain time, so you would like to continually retry at specific intervals or you need to refresh a connection at a certain interval. To help with this situation, the UCMA API provides the TimerWheel

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 15 - Connection Pools

Today we will finally revisit our client and add a little bit of code to it while discussing connection pools. For those of you familiar with concepts such as thread pools, connection pools are similar in a number of ways. Connection pools apply only

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 14 - the SERVICE message

Today we will cover a message type those of you more familiar with SIP may not know much about – the SERVICE request. Before writing this post, I attempted to research this message type on the Internet without success. Finally I just decided to look at
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