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Marshall Harrison - "the gotspeech guy"

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If you build it they will come

I'm reminded of that line from Field of Dreams - "If you build it they will come". I believe that line was from Shoeless Joe Jackson (played by Ray Liotta) but I'm not sure.

It doesn't matter who said it. I still feel like Kevin Costner did in the movie. We have built GotSpeech.Net and now we have to see if anyone will come. So far we have added 8 new users as word is slowly getting around that the site exists. Encouraging? Yes, but I'm still nervous.

We think we have a good community starting up here and we hope to see it grow to become the best place on the Internet to obtain information about Speech Server. I've already gotten some positive emails from people about what we are doing. Brandon and I thought there was a need for something like this and hopefully we were right. Now if everyone will just post in the forums, upload code samples and generally get active I will be able to relax and sleep at night again.

If you have any suggestions for content then please email them to admin@gotspeech.net.

In the meantime, I'll be setting here nervously waiting to see if they will come.

Posted: Thursday, March 16, 2006 7:25 PM by marshallharrison

Comments

ScottW said:

I think this is a great idea and hope to be an active member of this community.

Another thing to consider building is a set of demo applications that people can try out and learn from.
# March 17, 2006 2:38 PM

alec said:

I second the sentiments of ScottW. I think this is an excellent development and I look forward to participating in gotspeech. I think a good set of demo applications is a stellar idea. I will thinkg about what I can do in this regards
# March 17, 2006 5:45 PM

saramrea said:

Hi Marshall,

I remember when I first put up my website 3 years ago, I had a post for a long time with the same Field of Dreams movie quote. Even though it seems like no one is interested, some are and more and more will be. Speech is becoming mainstream and you will be considered a pioneer one day.  Thanks for leading the way.

Sara
# March 23, 2006 8:46 PM

Phil said:

Great job Marshall.

This is a great answer for Kevin Costners wife (in the movie).

She says something like: "What if the voice comes back while your gone?" & Cosnter says "Take a message".

I met you in Redmond last fall.  I will be back there in May.  I hope to see you there.

Phil Sypert.
# April 6, 2006 12:12 PM

marshallharrison said:

Hi Phil.

Both Brandon and I will be there. Let's makes sure we get a chance to talk.
# April 11, 2006 7:25 PM

Marshall Harrison - "the gotspeech guy" said:

Way back on March 16th I led off my blog with an entry entitled "If you build it they will come". That...
# July 28, 2006 12:56 PM

Marshall Harrison - "the gotspeech guy" said:

GotSpeech hit 1,000 members last night! It was a little less that 15 months ago that we started GotSpeech.

# June 3, 2007 7:33 AM

Marshall Harrison - "the gotspeech guy" said:

Last Thursday afternoon at 4:26 PM in this thread I made my 1,000 post to the GotSpeech.Net forums. It's

# March 3, 2008 9:58 PM
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