Basic sources to get answers about Speech Server related issues
Suddenly the realization came to me that I’ve been composing posts for this blog for last 6 months, but I haven’t been mentioned Speech Server much. The main reason for this is that we’re brand new product and just now appearing in the price lists. Therefore compared to other servers we don’t have books written about us, knowledge base entries, tons of traffic in newsgroups, user groups established etc. Being a new product means also that we don’t have any security vulnerabilities which are/were discovered outside Microsoft. Yet ;-)
A couple of newsgroup related things you need to know about Speech Server:
- The best newsgroup to ask any questions about Speech Server is microsoft.public.netspeechsdk. Don’t let the name SDK confuse you, this is perfectly valid place to ask questions, report bugs, and post feature requests. A number of people in our team are monitoring this newsgroup on daily basis, so you should get relatively fast response. If you don’t then please use my "Contact" link and I’ll see what I can do to speed things up ;-)
- There are two additional newsgroups microsoft.public.speech_tech and microsoft.public.speech_tech.sdk. These newsgroups are mainly for SAPI and Speech SDK related questions.
Everyone can use Google, but here’s the PC Magazine (the source authoritative enough?) review of Microsoft Speech Server to save you some time. Hopefully the probability of somebody reading this post and using the freshly released Speech Server is greater than zero ;-)