Setting up a Speech Server (2007) Development Enviroment
So you are looking for the best way to setup a development environment for your Speech Server applications.
Personally I love VPCs. The downfall to using a VPC with Speech Server is that the sound quality when you debug is horrible, but it's a limitation of the VPC and not Speech Server.
I'd like to build a VPC to redistribute to everyone but I don't think Microsoft Licensing would let me do that.
So here is what you need, including links to some time limit trials of Win2k3 and Visual Studio 2005.
First you need an OS Image.
Win2k3 Server Trial -VPC
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=77f24c9d-b4b8-4f73-99e3-c66f80e415b6&DisplayLang=en
You then need Visual Studio 2005.
Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Trial -VHD
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FFD86643-7C31-42A2-91D8-7D160449B368&DisplayLang=en
Next you need Speech Server (2007) installation.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4f4d3aa4-8223-406c-b74f-db2de928d8b2&displaylang=en
If you are going to be doing other OCS applications, you should probably pick up these SDKs as well.
UCMA
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1aaf0e4f-804c-4888-9c7c-81d7f7a6ddef&DisplayLang=en
There are others but they don't seem to be in public beta yet.
I'm not going to go over the prerequisites as these are covered in the Speech Server installation, but the jist of what you need is:
- .NET 3.0
- .NET 2.0
- WF Extensions for VS 2005
- MSMQ
- IIS