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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 2:23 PM

Early adopters report benefits with new Microsoft Speech Server

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 half the
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Monday, March 29, 2004 12:47 PM

Clarification: Speech Server 2004 and Speech Application SDK do NOT require Whidbey/Visual Studio 2005

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
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Saturday, March 27, 2004 11:02 PM

More VSLive official coverage

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/reports/vslivesf/2004/photos/images/08Gates-Hall-1.jpg
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Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:52 AM

More pictures from the Speech Server launch

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 'Speech Girls' Speech
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Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:24 AM

Transcription and slides from Bill Gates keynote at VSLive/SpeechTek

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.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2004/03-24-VSLive.as
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Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:21 AM

Bill Gates' Speech Server Keynote is online

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/
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Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:00 PM

Some photos from the Speech Server Launch

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!
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Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:43 PM

Microsoft Speech Server has Launched!

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
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Monday, March 22, 2004 9:44 AM

New log analysis tools in Microsoft Speech Application SDK

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
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Monday, March 22, 2004 9:06 AM

2 days to Microsoft Speech Server launch event at SpeechTek

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 we'd
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