GotSpeech.NET

This showed up on the MSS site

Microsoft to Present The Next Wave of Integrated Speech Applications during SpeechTEK Conference
Attend the keynote presentation by Richard Bray, General Manager in Unified Communications at Microsoft, on Tuesday, August 8, 2006, at the upcoming SpeechTEK East Conference & Expo to learn how Microsoft is accelerating the unification of collaboration and communication tools and mediums through speech-enabled applications. Through live demos and customer testimonials, you will see and hear how Microsoft is working to make speech technology an integral part of a unified communications experience that brings all modes of communication – phone, e-mail, instant messaging, Web conferencing – together into a compelling, unified enterprise solution. For more information about SpeechTEK and Mr. Bray’s keynote presentation

Now that the east coast tour of the Speech Server Days is done I am starting to plan similar events for the central and western regions.  In the east we attracted over 100 people in the 4 cities.  I would like to see that number grow for the next round of events.

I wonder what we can do to attract more people to attend the event.  There was a significant, but not atypical drop off between registration and attenedance.  Stuff always comes up.  One thought is to shorten the format to 1/2 or 3/4 of a day.  I think the full day schedule may turn some people away.  The other challenges are securing the meeting rooms and lining up speakers.  Let me know your thoughts on the Speech Server Days and I will take it from there.

Thanks for Marshall for setting up a Blog site for me.

One observation that I want to make is the many different types of speech applications we are seeing with MSS.  The variety and range of speech applications is remarkable.  In the last 6 months we have seen the following:

• Hospitals managing the flow of people and equipment
• e-Commerce with email delivery of spoken requests for info
• Transportation and delivery tracking
• Speech access to mapping/direction programs
• Speech access to Instant Messaging
• Temporary workforce tracking
• Outbound notification for appointment reminders
• Consumer marketing via cellphone
  www.cantata.com/news/press_releases/2006/040406_direct2mobile.cfm

This shows me how MSS is helping to bring speech to mainstream applications.  I would love to hear about what other interesting applications people are seeing.