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To: Road Walker who wrote (177239)	3/12/2004 3:51:05 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

A lot of sound and fury ... hopefully you know the rest.

To: Road Walker who wrote (177239)	3/26/2004 4:53:55 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 186894

Microsoft today released speech server which comes in $8k and $18k versions and runs on intel dialogic cards. Intel purchased Dialogic for 500 to 700 Million in cash, if memory serves in 1999. This is a big deal. Voice activation and recognition can save a company boatloads in redundant call direction. As the technology progresses, it will become the main input device in handhelds and tablets and mobile phones. It will be in those devices, more than just a gizmo, but a device that improves ease of use and productivity which will launch a new round of upgrades and new sales. crn.com Microsoft Speech Server Lowers Cost Of Entry For Enterprises, SMBs By Paula Rooney, CRN 2:15 PM EST Fri., Mar. 26, 2004 Microsoft's launch of Speech Server 2004 this week will enable businesses to voice-enable their data at a lower price point, solution providers say. Slated to ship by the end of April, Speech Server 2004 offers enterprises and small and midsize businesses an affordable, mainstream solution for in-house development and deployment of speech applications that can be accessed via phones and mobile devices, Microsoft executives said. In tackling the interactive voice response (IVR) market, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will be taking on long-established players like Nortel Networks, Siemens and Lucent Technologies. The standard and enterprise editions of Speech Server 2004--launched by Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software ArchitectBill Gates this week at the combined VSLive, Avios-SpeechTek and Microsoft Mobile Developers Conference--are priced at $7,999 and $17,999 per CPU, respectively. The base offering provides a speech-recognition engine, telephony platform, voice browser, ScanSoft Speechify text-to-speech engine and integration with Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2003 for application design and tuning. It also offers robust scalability, security and reliability, as well as integration with CTI and PBXes for telephony networks, Microsoft said. For solution providers, the product comes with a built-in speech software development kit (SDK) that supports the creation of dual-tone, multifrequency (DTMF) applications and multimodal applications that combine speech and visual applications. Speech Server 2004 runs exclusively on Intel IVR boards, which the chip maker acquired with its purchase of Dialogix. This week, Intel also announced a $995 evaluation kit that includes an analog card, a PCI card, telephony information manager software and a 180-day, timed-out version of Microsoft's speech software for experimentation. ...