Microsoft Corp. today took another step forward in its strategy to make the business value of speech technology more broadly available to mainstream enterprise companies as Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates launched Microsoft® Speech Server 2004 at the co-located AVIOS~SpeechTEK Spring 2004, Microsoft Mobile Developer Conference (DevCon) 2004 and Fawcette Technical Publications' VSLive! San Francisco 2004 events. Speaking to an audience of more than 4,000 during his keynote address, Gates spoke about the developer opportunities and business value Speech Server will enable, which analysts say will change the industry dynamic.
Immediately following Gates' keynote, Kai-Fu Lee, corporate vice president for the Microsoft Speech Server product group, will take the stage at the AVIOS~SpeechTEK portion of the conference to detail Microsoft's efforts in speech technology and demonstrate real-world customer and partner applications based on Speech Server.
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