I am very excited to have the opportunity to present our work over the last 2 years at the PDC with my co-worker Robert Brown. Unfortunately, our session is at noon on Friday, at a time when a lot of attendees will likely be on their way back to their loved ones. But I hope there will be at least some of you interested enough to stop by our session to see how far speech reocognition and speech synthesis has come and how easy it is to use it from managed code:

Session Details PRSL03 - Ten Amazing Ways to Speech-Enable Your Application September 16, 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM 502 AB

Phillip Schmid, Robert Brown

Microsoft is supercharging Windows and Windows Server System with state-of-the-art speech technology. WinFX has a powerful API for enabling your users to speak to your apps and your apps to speak to your users. A future version of Speech Server will use the same API for extending the reach of your .NET applications to the telephone. The technology just works and the code's easy to write. During this lunch session, see some great examples, like using speech to access information in Windows Vista ("Longhorn"), speech enabling your rich Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon") application, and how to extend your application to the telephone for ubiquitous access.

- Philipp