Speech as a Service. How to Put Your Speech Solution in the Cloud

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1 Rob Chambers Principal Group Program Manager, Speech Components Group Speech as a Service How to Put Your Speech Solution in the Cloud Using Unified Communication Managed APIs (UCMA 2.0)

2 Agenda Microsoft Microsoft s UC Platform Microsoft s UC Managed API 2.0 Speech as a (Web) Service

3 Microsoft

4 Microsoft Speech Investments Long-term investments 1991: MS-Research founding 1992: Speech team created 1998: Product group formed 2000: Division-level investment Today: shipping fully-packaged products on all platforms Major Acquisitions Entropic Tellme World-class talent from many major speech and natural language research centers. Carnegie Mellon, Cambridge, MIT, EPFL, UC Berkley ~300 patents since 1993 Vision: Speech interfaces in every Microsoft application and service making software more natural and easy to use.

5 Windows Vista Windows 7 Exchange OCS 2007 Tellme Live Search Windows Mobile Automotive Speech API (aka SAPI, System.Speech, Microsoft.Speech) Standards support: SRGS, SISR, SSML, PLS, EMMA* Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine Microsoft Speech Synthesis Engine

6 Microsoft's UC Platform

7 Microsoft Unified Communications Increased productivity through communications convergence Team Workspaces Application Sharing Calendaring Web Conference Inbox Enterprise Telephony Video Conference Voice Mail Instant Messaging Audio Conference

8 and Unified Messaging Instant Messaging Enterprise Telephony Conferencing Common Management The Microsoft UC Platform Software-powered Unified Communications Efficient Application Creation Productivity-Enhancing Applications Unified User Experience Extensible Software Foundation Enterprise Grade Software Platform

9 Unified Communications Platform Capabilities Enable integration of collaborative experiences in software Contextual Collaboration Business Process Communications Anywhere Information Access

10 UC Platform - High Level Benefits Increase productivity by communicating with context from within any desktop application Cut down the human latency in business processes Provide remote access to information via the telephone or Communicator client

11 UC Managed API 2.0 Workflow Activities

12 UCMA 2.0 Workflow Basics Built on Windows Workflow Foundation UCMA Workflow leverages many of WF features e.g.: Activities Designer Surface Rules Engine Runtime services etc. UCMA 2.0 Core and Microsoft Speech Abstracts a subset of UCMA 2.0 Core SDK functionality Combines them with MS Speech functionalities like TTS and ASR to provide dialog components Visual Studio 2008 Requires.NET 3.5 SP1

13 New in UCMA 2.0 Collaboration IM or AudioVideo Call Conferencing Presence publication and subscription Speech Speech Synthesis (TTS) Automatic Speech Recognition Workflow Simple Call Control Query Presence IM Dialog Speech Dialog UCMA 1.0 SIP Signaling Text IM

14 UCMA 2.0 UC Workflow Call Control Query Presence Statement UC Workflow Activities Events Question Answer Commands

15 UCMA 2.0 Workflow in action Rob s Personal Communication Assistant

16 UCMA 2.0 Speech APIs in action As a Web Service!

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