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Speech Technologies
	Microsoft's vision for speech technology is empowering people with innovative speech-enabled applications on every device, whether a desktop or TabletPC, mobile phone or PDA, or via a standard telephone.
Powerful speech-based interfaces, available in your language, will enhance the user experience and let people access information more naturally and effectively wherever they are. Microsoft’s speech technology already powers great ready-to-use applications like Outlook Voice Access in Microsoft Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging, Windows Speech Recognition on Windows Vista, Speech Server on Office Communications Server 2007, and Voice Command on Windows Mobile. In addition, developers can leverage powerful APIs and tools to build their own speech-enabled applications using the Speech Server Developer tools for Visual Studio 2005 and the System.Speech API in .NET 3.0.

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Embedded ViaVoice

   

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Overview

Embedded ViaVoice® delivers IBM speech technology to mobile devices and automobile components.

With Embedded ViaVoice technology behind today’s small mobile devices and automotive telematics systems, developers can easily provide users with voice access to information.

• Provides fully integrated, automatic speech-recognition and text-to-speech capabilities for small mobile devices, including automotive telematics systems and hands-free phones
• Helps minimize the skills and time needed to develop advanced voice applications for devices and remote systems
• Includes freeform command support for natural and intuitive command phrases that do not need to be known ahead of time or memorized for future use
• Recognizes vocabulary lists exceeding 200,000 spoken words in real time and across a broad range of languages
• Includes porting, integration, testing and consulting services provided by IBM, along with customized development workshops
• Provides an intuitive, easy-to-use developer toolkit powered by Eclipse technology