Odds and Ends
I have been so busy lately with work and some personal stuff (i.e. surgery) that I haven't been able to blog much this month. I have several things going on but none are developed far enough to make a complete blog posting so I thought I would just throw out some odds and ends.
I recently blogged about GotSpeech Central and showed you some images of it. I now have the other development server in place and working. I had to add a sound card to it and a separate video card so that I could run the dual monitors. I spoke with Dell tech support about the video card (as well as a RAID issue) and their response is that it wouldn't be supported. They had never tried it and weren't sure if it would work or not so they caved and said "non supported". Well I'm happy to report that it works just fine.
I also blogged about looking for bloggers and I've added two new bloggers as a result. Brian has already introduced himself and the other new blogger (you know who you are) should be blogging soon.
I recently started back up the GotSpeech Activity Library Project but with everything going on we haven't made much progress yet. I have two weeks off over the holidays next month so I hope to get this well on track during that time. We are still looking for suggested activities and other contributors. Just email me or leave a comment in the blog.
The AudioCodes MP-114 is partially working with some help from Kevin Wolf. We exchanged emails about the setup as he was going through the same problems I was. Kevin even let me into his gateway to poke around. Unfortunately his email server and my email server aren't talking at the moment so it is hard to keep in touch for follow up. I've got inbound calls working and going to my Speech Server. I've got outbound calls working using X-Lite but I haven't attempted outbound from Speech Server yet. I still need to get it to allow me to answer the phone instead of immediately sending it to Speech Server. I really only want it to go there if I don't answer the phone. AudioCodes tech support has not replied to my problem and it has been almost two months now. With support like that I can't recommend the product. So if you AudioCodes people are reading this then contact me. I would love to hear your side of the story.
In early December I'll be going to a Unified Communications Voice Ignite event in Orlando. I'm really looking forward to that as I want to expand my knowledge base and reach. Plus my boss has said that he wants me to get better grounded in the whole OCS platform (or should that be UC platform?). I don't know if this event is open to everyone or just partners etc.
Well, that's sort of what is going on around here. As you can probably guess I've been going in too many directions just like some of you. Answering the questions in the forums, newsgroups and the ones that come directly to me have kept me pretty busy. I really wish I had more time to just experiment and play with Speech Server and the rest of the OCS pieces. As it is now I get to use Live Meeting and Communicator but I don't get to dive as deep into them as I would like. Still, I just keep plugging away at it. That is the best that any of us can do.