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Marshall Harrison - "the gotspeech guy"

Site news, Speech Server insight and assorted ramblings

July 2006 - Posts

Help Me Build My Home Office (and win something for yourself)
I thought that it would be a good exercise to enlist your help in designing and building my home office. No, I'm not looking for financial help (though I'll take any that is offered). I'm really looking for suggestions on building a home setup for developing Read More...
If you build it they will come - the Sequel
Way back on March 16th I led off my blog with an entry entitled " If you build it they will come ". That was our first full day of existence and we were relying heavily on the hope that if we built it you would show up. I've been looking back on our history Read More...
No Speech Server book.....yet
Well Sara and I found out today that MS Press won't publish our book. I think that the bottom line is just that they feel the audience is too small and they won't sell enough copies to make it worthwhile. MSS is still just a niche market in their eyes. Read More...
Speaker Verification Activity for Speech Server 2007
Casey Chesnut has a great blog entry about creating custom speech activities in MSS 2007 and he shows how to do speaker identification. Once I do get some time I want to tryout his code. He also has a really neat article on Workflow Foundation where he Read More...
Vishing
It seems that the criminal element is taking phishing to new heights and has evolved into vishing for your personal data. Does this mean that voice systems are ready to become mainstream? Hopefully no GotSpeech members are involved in something like this. Read More...
Jacksonville Code Camp
The Jacksonville Code Camp sponsored by the Jacksonville Developers User Group is coming up on August 26. If you are not familiar with a what a code camp is then you should read the Code camp Manifesto . I've never been to one but the concept sounds like Read More...
Bummer.......and other stuff
Today is the last day of my vacation and that is a major bummer . Some of you know that I was vacationing last week in the mountains of North Carolina staying at this place . It was nice even though I fell down the stairs my second day there (I can be Read More...
Speech Technology Magazine’s 2006 Most Innovative Solutions Awards
One of my aplications won one of the Speech Technology Magazine ’s 2006 Most Innovative Solutions Awards . About half way down the page you will see the write-up on Landstar's entry. I wrote the Speech Server part of this sytem and was one of the architects Read More...
Speech Server MVP
Here's an excerpt from an email I received today - Dear Marshall Harrison, Congratulations and Welcome to the Microsoft MVP Program! As a recipient of this year’s Most Valuable Professional award, you join an elite group of individuals in online and offline Read More...