Microsoft Speech Server
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The Microsoft Speech Server is a product from Microsoft
designed to allow the authoring and deployment of IVR
applications incorporating Speech Recognition
, Speech Synthesis
and DTMF
.
The first version of the server was released in 2004 as Microsoft Speech Server 2004 and supported applications developed for U.S. English-speaking users. A later release (Speech Server 2004 R2) was released in 2005 and added support for North American Spanish and Canadian French as well as additional features and fixes.
In August 2006, Microsoft announced that Speech Server 2007, originally slated to be released in May of 2007, had been merged with the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server
product linehttp://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/08/HNmsspeechserver_1.html?SPEECH to create Microsoft Office Communications Server {OCS}.
The Speech Server 2007 components of Office Communications Server are also available separately in the free Speech Server 2007 Developers Edition.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
designed to allow the authoring and deployment of IVR
Interactive voice response
Interactive voice response is a technology that allows a computer to interact with humans through the use of voice and DTMF keypad inputs....
applications incorporating Speech Recognition
Speech recognition
Speech recognition converts spoken words to text. The term "voice recognition" is sometimes used to refer to recognition systems that must be trained to a particular speaker—as is the case for most desktop recognition software...
, Speech Synthesis
Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware...
and DTMF
Dual-tone multi-frequency
Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling is used for telecommunication signaling over analog telephone lines in the voice-frequency band between telephone handsets and other communications devices and the switching center. The version of DTMF that is used in push-button telephones for tone dialing is...
.
The first version of the server was released in 2004 as Microsoft Speech Server 2004 and supported applications developed for U.S. English-speaking users. A later release (Speech Server 2004 R2) was released in 2005 and added support for North American Spanish and Canadian French as well as additional features and fixes.
In August 2006, Microsoft announced that Speech Server 2007, originally slated to be released in May of 2007, had been merged with the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server
Microsoft Office Live Communications Server
Microsoft Lync Server is an enterprise real-time communications server, providing the infrastructure for enterprise instant messaging, presence, file transfer, peer-to-peer and multiparty voice and video calling, ad hoc and structured conferences and, through a 3rd party gateway or SIP trunk, PSTN...
product linehttp://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/08/HNmsspeechserver_1.html?SPEECH to create Microsoft Office Communications Server {OCS}.
The Speech Server 2007 components of Office Communications Server are also available separately in the free Speech Server 2007 Developers Edition.
See also
- Microsoft Office Communications Server
- Speech RecognitionSpeech recognitionSpeech recognition converts spoken words to text. The term "voice recognition" is sometimes used to refer to recognition systems that must be trained to a particular speaker—as is the case for most desktop recognition software...
- Speech SynthesisSpeech synthesisSpeech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware...
- Interactive voice responseInteractive voice responseInteractive voice response is a technology that allows a computer to interact with humans through the use of voice and DTMF keypad inputs....