Just as the Kokanee salmon steadfastly progress up the Wallowa River to spawn, Microsoft is equally determined to move speech technology into the mainstream, making it a widespread industry. Kokanee is the codename for a major research and development effort at Microsoft designed to grow the speech industry. Its focus, the delivery of the .Net Speech Platform, will make speech-enabled application development and deployment simpler, faster, and easier. If Kokanee succeeds in stimulating the creation of killer speech applications, we may soon find ourselves talking with computers on a more frequent basis and actually enjoying the experience.
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