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•	Newsletter Keep up to date on Microsoft Speech Technologies, the latest news, helpful tips, and upcoming events.

•	Webcasts Learn more about the Microsoft Speech Technologies with our webcast training opportunities.

•	Events Read about the latest Microsoft Speech Technologies events.

Speech Server Blogs by Microsoft Employees

•	You Talkin’ To Me Microsoft Speech Server Team

•	Joe Calev's WebLog Joe Calev

•	Rob's Rhapsody Rob Chambers

•	Ken Circeo: The View From Building 17 Ken Circeo

•	Working the Spoken Word Stephen Potter

•	Anandi's Thoughts Anandi Raman

•	Speech Server Coffeehouse Chris Schindler

•	Sprague WebLog Richard Sprague

Other Microsoft Communities

•	Windows Server

•	SQL Server

•	Exchange Server

Featured Speech Server Articles

•	4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Writing a Speech App Authors: Ken Circeo, Walter Isidro - Microsoft Corp. New to Speech Server or speech apps in general? Circeo and Isidro discuss four questions you must ask yourself before you even think about coding.

•	VoIP and Speech in the Enterprise Author: Joe Carey - Vail Systems The time has come to think of the call center and the data center as one, with voice representing just another customer touch-point.

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Six Steps for Creating a Speech Recognition Application or Speech-Enabling Your DTMF IVR

Authors: Chris Biber, Andrew Kozminski, Sonia Langenberg - Pronexus
While Touch-Tone IVR systems can save you money, they also have inherent drawbacks such as complex menu structures and difficult caller navigation. Speech recognition technologies can resolve many of these shortcomings.

More Resources

•	GotSpeech.Net

•	Tips 'n Tricks

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FAQ

•	Case Studies

•	Latest Newsletter

•	Other Speech Articles

•	Microsoft Speech Server 2004 R2 Help Documentation

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