Microsoft launches Microsoft Speech Server 2004 R2, expands language support.Microsoft Corp. has announced the release of Microsoft Speech Server 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. (MSS) 2004 R2. The new version of Microsoft Speech Server, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the company, helps lower costs, deliver improved flexibility and provide enhanced performance and reliability for enterprise customers. With MSS 2004 R2, enterprise customers can offer language support for U.S. Spanish and Canadian French Canadian French n. The French language as used in Canada. Noun 1. Canadian French - the French language as spoken in Quebec, Canada French - the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France at no additional cost. Customers can also deploy MSS 2004 R2 in an all-in-one server configuration, which gives them better flexibility when choosing a deployment option. "Microsoft Speech Server 2004 R2 is the next step in delivering our promise to reduce the cost and complexity of building and deploying enterprise speech solutions for our customers," said Rich Bray, general manager of the Speech Server group at Microsoft. "With MSS 2004 R2, we are better meeting our customer needs by providing additional language support and new deployment options that make it easier and more affordable for companies of all sizes to benefit from speech technologies." The new language support will address the needs of enterprises that serve Canadian and U.S. multilingual callers by enabling the enterprises to deploy speech-enabled applications designed for Canadian French, U.S. Spanish or U.S. English speakers. New automated speech recognition (ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Using voice recognition to replace keypad entry for telephone voice menus. Typically used to speak the digits 0 through 9 insted of keying them, ASR systems may be able to recognize a limited vocabulary. See voice recognition and AVSR. ) and text-to-speech (TTS (1) See text-to-speech. (2) (Transaction Tracking System) Software that monitors a transaction until completion. In the event of a hardware or software failure, it ensures that the database is brought back to its former state before the attempt to ) engines are provided in MSS 2004 R2 at no additional cost to Microsoft Speech Server customers. The new MSS 2004 R2 Enterprise Edition all-in-one server deployment option can significantly lower an enterprise's speech platform purchase costs, especially for small to medium-sized speech deployments servicing between 24 and 48 ports, and touch-tone solutions supporting up to 96 ports. In addition, MSS 2004 R2 Enterprise Edition continues support of distributed multi-server deployments, which are recommended for implementations requiring more than 48 ports. Part of the Windows Server System, MSS is a Web-based, speech-enabled interactive voice response (IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. ) and multimodal Two or more modes of operation. The term is used to refer to a myriad of functions and conditions in which two or more different methods, processes or forms of delivery are used. On the Web, it refers to asking for something one way and receiving the answer another; for example requesting application solutions platform. As a Speech Application Language Tags For other meanings of the word salt or acronym "SALT", see salt (disambiguation). Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) is an XML based markup language that is used in HTML and XHTML pages to add voice recognition capabilities to web based applications. (SALT)-based platform, Speech Server follows the Web application deployment model, using an ASP.NET-based Web server as the application server. The two main core components included with Microsoft Speech Server are the Telephony Application Services and Speech Engine Services, including ASR, TTS and prompt manager. MSS 2004 R2's all-in-one server configuration deployment gives customers greater flexibility when choosing their deployment option. In addition, customers can benefit from expanded telephony boards coverage and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) support for MSS 2004 R2 from industry partners, including Aculab, Brooktrout Inc., Eicon Networks and Vail Systems Inc. www.microsoft.com |
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