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Outlook Voice Access demo

With Exchange Server 2007, currently in Beta, the ordinary telephone suddenly becomes an alternative to desktop Outlook. You can access and manipulate your email, calendar, contacts and other mailbox items over the phone, thanks to built-in speech recognition technology. 

Here's a demo (110Kb or 300Kb). See also the live demo at the People Ready launch in New York earlier this year.

(Via the Exchange Team blog You had me at EHLO.)

Published Wednesday, June 21, 2006 3:20 PM by Stephen Potter

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Thursday, June 22, 2006 7:52 AM by Marshall Harrison "the gotspeech guy"

# re: Outlook Voice Access demo

Correct me if I'm wrong but it is my understanding that the Exchange can only host this one application. It can't be used to host user written applications. It is not a substitute for purchasing MSS.
Thursday, June 22, 2006 5:13 PM by Stephen Potter

# re: Outlook Voice Access demo

Hi Marshall, you're right, Outlook Voice Access is a pre-built application within Exchange Server 2007, it's not a development platform like Speech Server. But I'd like to think that the MSS team had something to do with it :-)

There's a serious buzz about Outlook Voice Access among Exchange users right now. This is really exciting to me because the Exchange user base is massive, so speech is moving inexorably into the mainstream...

Stephen
Friday, June 23, 2006 2:28 PM by Marshall Harrison "the gotspeech guy"

# re: Outlook Voice Access demo

Hi Stephen, I'm sure the MSS team had lots to do with this. I was concerned that someone would think they could use it for development.

You guys (and gals) have done a great job and it's great to see speech moving mainstream.
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