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Marshall Harrison - "the gotspeech guy"

Site news, Speech Server insight and assorted ramblings

January 2008 - Posts

50% off on Dialogic Media Gateways
ScanSource is offering Dialogic Media Gateway Starter Kits at 50% off. The discount comes with free training and support. You can read all of the details at the link above and there is an 800 number to call near the bottom of the page. I've been very Read More...
On the Road Again Part II
I like that old Willie Nelson song (actually I'm a big fan of Willie and Waylon) but I seem to be singing it more and more lately. I'm headed up to Columbia SC on business again this week so if you are in that area then shoot me an email (or call the Read More...
Strategies for Optimizing Alphanumeric Recognition Accuracy
In a recent thread here on GotSpeech.Net ahofle asked about the availability of common grammars that could be used with Speech Server. He mentioned writing some grammars and that he was interested in creating one for license plate numbers. Well, this Read More...
Awesome offer from ScanSource
Apparently ScanSource ’s VP of sales saw my blog post on the Dialogic gateway and has offered ScanSource’s support if I have any trouble at all working with the Dialogic (or AudioCodes) gateways. I think this is awesome. You write a blog post and you Read More...
New OCS Book
The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resouce Kit is now out. Get all the guidence you need on architecture, deployment, configuration and troubleshooting of OCS. I've already called my favorite book store and placed my order Read More...
Creating subflows
Recently I was working on setting up an application where I wanted different pieces of the call flow to be placed in separate work flows or at least segmented out so that multiple developers can work on the different pieces. The desire was to do this Read More...
Be Careful what you post
You've probably seen those TV commercials that warn people that what they post on the web becomes public property. I've also seen news stories where stuff has come back to haunt people in job interviews and such. It wasn't as bad as that but Richard Sprague Read More...
Dialogic Media Gateway Part III
After work today I decided to play around wiht the gateway some more and I ended up in the logging menu. I found this on the Network Capture tab and decided to do a trace. After the trace finished it gave me the option of downloading the trace as a .pcap Read More...
Dialogic Media Gateway Part II
I spent about 20 minutes today during my lunch configuring the Dialogic Gateway. As a result I can now dial out from a soft phone and from OCS 2007 Speech Server. I can also make inbound calls and if no one picks up the phone after x number of rings the Read More...
Dialogic Media Gateway
Yesterday DHL dropped a Dialogic Media Gateway off on my doorstep. So far all I've had time to do is plug it in and get it up on my network. Unfortunately these type of devices all seem to come with a factory set IP address of something like 10.12.13.74 Read More...
OCS 2007 Speech Server hosting
Recently I've been fielding a lot of questions concerning hosting for OCS Speech Server 2007 applications. There is some confusion among developers over how to get their applications into production. People are confused about gateways and proxies and Read More...