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For any of you who might be interested in learning more about FreeSwitch, a book is finally available Written by the main authors of the product, the book can be found here https://www.packtpub.com/freeswitch-1-0-6-build-robust-high-performance-telephony-systems/boo...
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Today I received word that I had been awarded an MVP for Microsoft Communications Server again. I’m very excited about Unified Communications and the upcoming Microsoft Communications Server “14”. I’ll be doing a lot of work and posting regarding...
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An excerpt from an email I received a few minutes ago: Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2010 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world...
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Somewhat quietly Google opened up Google Voice to the public last week . If you haven’t had the chance to try Google Voice , I suggest taking a look. For people like me, with multiple phone numbers and locations, its a killer app. With Google Voice you...
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Have you ever run into this issue? You write some managed code, set a breakpoint in the code, run the debugger, code stops on the breakpoint. While in the middle of intensely analyzing variables etc, suddenly....without warning....bloop...the debugger...
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Without much fanfare Microsoft released a significant update to the Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 last weekend. This release is not only significant given the impressive set of new features, but most of all because it provides direct...
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Well, it’s been two weeks now since the Metro and the Airlift training and I’ve had a chance to play around with Wave 14 and the developer APIs. As you may know there are two APIs – UCMA 3.0 and the Communicator API. I’ve been begging for over a year...
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I'm in Redmond through Tuesday for training then fly home and come back next week for another week of training. Unfortunately everything I am working on these days is under NDA so I can't blog any details. But I can say that I love where Microsoft is...
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Here is a video of a keynote by Gurdeep Singh Pall at VoiceCon 2010 that gives more info about Communications Server 14 http://www.voicecon.com/videos/playvideo/?vid=VCO-2010-1270150480...
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Although transcribing speech into text is not directly available from Speech Server, it is obviously becoming a huge item in todays market and will continue to evolve as an extremely efficient method of interacting with computers and devices. Here on...
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When working with the VoiceXML Interpreter Activity the simple act of passing data between your Workflow and your VXML applications can be tricky to figure out. Hopefully this post will save someone the time I spent scratching my head the first time around....
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I’ve been playing around with the UCMA 2.0 SDK for the last few weeks, mainly in preparation for the upcoming v.next release of Communication Server. For those interested in what comes after Speech Server it is a worthy endeavor to dig into the UCMA....
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2010 MVP Global Summit - Well, it has been about two weeks now since I got back from my Redmond Trip and I’ve had time to recover and regroup. I’m getting too old for 17 hour days in the wrong time zone and redeye flights. On the return trip I went 36...
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Chris Mayo has a blog post that contains a little more info about the next version of OCS You can check it out here http://blogs.msdn.com/cmayo/pages/uc-14-developer-faq.aspx And also a post about the early adopter program http://blogs.msdn.com/cmayo/archive/2009/11/20/uc-14-metro-ocs-14-oc-14-platform-early-adopter-program.asp...
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In Part 5 of the Speech Server 2007 marries FreeSwitch series, we will be setting up FreeSwitch to take outgoing calls from Speech Server and send them off to the PSTN. www.VerbalBusiness.com is only available to North American Customers at this time,...
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I’ll be in Bellevue/Redmond next week (14 – 19th) for the Microsoft 2010 MVP Global Summit . This will be my 4th Summit and I am really looking forward to it. It’s a long tiring week but if gives me a chance to reconnect with friends in the OCS Product...
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Lately GotSpeech has been bombarded with spam attempts to join. Not sure why they would do that but it is happening and as a result I’ve changed the way new members get approved. It is now a manual process which allows me to filter out the spam. if you...
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New Microsoft Speech Technologies web site is now live. Enjoy. I’m off to read all of the content....
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In Part 4 of this series, I neglected to mention that you need to setup FreeSwitch as a Trusted Peer in Speech Server 2007 before Speech Server 2007 will answer the incomming calls. Nothing new or special to do here, pretty standard Speech Server 2007...
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Now that we have FreeSwitch installed on the same box as Speech Server 2007, its time to setup FreeSwitch so that it can receive phone calls from the PSTN and pass those calls off to Speech Server 2007. As you recall, one of the requirements that I had...
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In Parts 1 and 2 of this series of blog posts, I outlined www.VerbalBusiness.com , the application I have created, what it does and its needs for telephone lines. In this 3rd installment, we are actually going to install FreeSwitch and get it running...
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You can now follow the GotSpeech Guy on Twitter. Just use this link and click on Follow - http://twitter.com/gotspeech I’m finding that I use Twitter a lot for little things concerning Speech Server and OCS. Lots of things happen everyday that are interesting...
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I’ve been messing around with dynamic grammars and put some code together to show how it’s done. This was for a real world problem I was facing but the code is just a proof of concept that I used to get everything working. I used the code shown below...
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As I mentioned in Part 1, I have developed an application called VerbalBusiness that is a cross between a web and an IVR application. The web application is located at www.VerbalBusiness.com and has 2 parts...Contact Management and Expense Management....
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Happy New year everyone! 2009 was a great year for OCS. For how good it was and where we should be going in 2010 see Unified Communications 2009 - A year in review by my friend and fellow OCS MVP Joe Schurman. It is customary at this time of the year...
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