Wow. After months of development, VBSalt 1.0 shipped. The blue and silver CDs arrived today from the printers. They look great. It's hard to believe that months of work turns into just a bunch of bits.
I saw the movie “Pieces of April” last week. It’s about a woman, April, who is trying to cook Thanksgiving dinner in her little apartment. The stove breaks, and she spends most of the movie wandering her apartment building trying to borrow a stove. Things get worse. The bird gets kidnapped. A dog bites off a leg. She starts to think this dammed turkey will never get cooked.
If you’re thinking that wandering the halls with a half-cooked turkey in your arms sounds a lot like developing a software product, you would be right. Well, our “bird” is ready thanks to the unending persistence of
Fouad & Jim (chefs)
Dicky, Hui, and Val (associate chefs)
Mark and Bela (chief tasters)
Melanie (invitations)
Mark and Andrew (menu selection)
Thursday, June 03, 2004
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Calling Microsoft
Now that John Lawrence has moved to a new position, his blog is no longer dealing with Speech Server. We need some other Microsofters who work on speech server or the SASDK to start blogging.
For instance, today we were dealing with a false barge-in problem on our MSS-based Auto-Attendant. There are a bunch of TIM and SES settings for controlling the sensitivity of the speech detector. Without a lot of playing around it's hard to know which one to use. A great subject for a little blog from the folks who know, like the one
The Old New Thing does so well.
When we learn how to prevent false barge-in, I'll post here.
For instance, today we were dealing with a false barge-in problem on our MSS-based Auto-Attendant. There are a bunch of TIM and SES settings for controlling the sensitivity of the speech detector. Without a lot of playing around it's hard to know which one to use. A great subject for a little blog from the folks who know, like the one
The Old New Thing does so well.
When we learn how to prevent false barge-in, I'll post here.
Thursday, May 27, 2004
SALT vs VXML : Part 1 - XML is not a programming language
moved to http://www.computertelephony.org/blog/index.php?p=25
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Jail cells do not have windows!
From the Fish Don't Notice Water file:
A standard feature of movie jail cells seems to be a window with bars and no glass. The hero can chat with friends standing outside or (more commonly) receive escape materials through the window. What gives? This is some sort of cultural QWERTY phenomenum, a cliche so engrained it doesn't get changed. It's been decades since a jail cell had glassless windows, or even windows at all.
A standard feature of movie jail cells seems to be a window with bars and no glass. The hero can chat with friends standing outside or (more commonly) receive escape materials through the window. What gives? This is some sort of cultural QWERTY phenomenum, a cliche so engrained it doesn't get changed. It's been decades since a jail cell had glassless windows, or even windows at all.
Thursday, May 20, 2004
The Name: Silent Software
The name of this blog refers to a quality of good server software, it sits in the corner and just works. The fact that people forget about it, or at least take it for granted, is an indication of success. But silent software is not about software that is mute; servers should log copiously when asked to, and fail loudly.
"Just works" is a perception, not a physical characteristic. Lack of quality for a product can be defined as the gap between reality and expectations. It's just as important for a product to manage expectations as it is to manage the product itself. Especially new technology like speech recognition, where expectations can easily be set sky high. There is an interesting graph in Speech Server white paper showing how increasing CPU speed will improve recognition quality over the next number of years. The challenge for the next few years is finding domains where the current speech rec software can work well.
"Just works" is a perception, not a physical characteristic. Lack of quality for a product can be defined as the gap between reality and expectations. It's just as important for a product to manage expectations as it is to manage the product itself. Especially new technology like speech recognition, where expectations can easily be set sky high. There is an interesting graph in Speech Server white paper showing how increasing CPU speed will improve recognition quality over the next number of years. The challenge for the next few years is finding domains where the current speech rec software can work well.
Testing, testing, testing
Hello, world\n :)
I'm new to Blogger and to blogging so we'll take this slow.
This will be a blog about two things. First, I have an interest in the process of developing software
software, including agile practices, software architectures, and project tracking.
Secondly, I'm interested telephony and in particular speech recognition applications. This stems from my current position at Pronexus, working on two telephony toolkits VBVoice and VBSalt. VBSalt 1.0 is being released shortly, to coincide with Microsoft Speech Server.
I'm new to Blogger and to blogging so we'll take this slow.
This will be a blog about two things. First, I have an interest in the process of developing software
software, including agile practices, software architectures, and project tracking.
Secondly, I'm interested telephony and in particular speech recognition applications. This stems from my current position at Pronexus, working on two telephony toolkits VBVoice and VBSalt. VBSalt 1.0 is being released shortly, to coincide with Microsoft Speech Server.
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