If you've ever tried to speech-enable an application—any type of application—then you know it can be daunting… until now. At VSLive! San Francisco, Microsoft officially released Speech Server 2004, which allows any company to add (nearly) natural speech capabilities to its applications.
In his keynote at VSLive! on Wednesday, Kai-Fu Lee, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Natural Interactive Services division, stressed Microsoft's goal to bring speech technology to the mainstream through reduced costs, increased flexibility, and better integration. You can use Microsoft Speech Server to create new applications, but more importantly, you can easily integrate it into existing applications, even if the application was never designed with future speech enablement in mind. This is one of Speech Server's most impressive and compelling features.
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