The GotSpeech Activity Library Project
When ActicveX first started becoming popular back in the '90s an aftermarket sprung up of companies and developers creating custom ActiveX controls that you could use in your applications. I think they went a long way towards making Visual Basic popular.
Spring ahead to OCS 2007 Speech Server and Voice Response Activity Libraries. I think that we will start seeing a market grow around custom Activity Libraries as more developers start using Speech Server and Workflow. With that in mind I've been thinking a lot lately about creating a library of Speech Server activities.
I have a few ideas for tasks that could be turned into custom activities. My plan has been that when I finish with these activities I'm going to donate it to the community. After thinking some more on this I realized that other developers may have some custom library activities that they could donate as well.
So I'm announcing the GotSpeech Activity Library Project and looking for contributors. The library will be freely distributed on GotSpeech.Net so that other developers can take advantage of it. If you would like to contribute please shoot me an email so that we can coordinate library activities, namespaces and such. Anything you contribute will be become public domain so if you are considering selling activities then this project is not for you.
If you can't contribute but have ideas for activities that would be useful then please submit your ideas.
Once I have developers lined up we can hash out the details on how the project will proceed. Think of this as sort of an Open Source project. You get to improve your coding skills while giving something back to the Speech Server community.
So, let me know if you want to be involved.