Speech Server 2007 Public Beta available
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We have shipped the Speech Server 2007 Public Beta!
It's available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4F4D3AA4-8223-406C-B74F-DB2DE928D8B2
Since Speech Server is now technically part of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, its shiny new name is Office Communications Server 2007 Speech Server. (I know. Let a marketeer post on that one. OCS2K7SS for short? Um, nice. Let's stick with Speech Server 2007, you and me.) In any case, this is a "Beta Refresh" of Speech Server that adds new features and bug fixes since the last (private) Beta in 2006.
More to come - especially on the analytics and tuning features that my team delivered in a milestone of intense coding and round-the-clock testing (literally), fuelled by team dinners, a high-latency caffeine machine and hourly refreshes of the bug glide path...