I wanted to record sound files quickly on Windows 7, to create some wav files for an IVR application. Unfortunately, there's nothing included in Windows 7 that handles it. Sure, you can install Windows Media Encoder and the like, but that's cumbersome. And you can record WMA sound files with …

I've been a programming IVR systems since 1994. I'm experienced with VUI design, grammar building, speech tuning and more. Here's my opinion on some of the platforms for which I've done IVR programming. Avaya has a variety of solutions. I've recently been using the Avaya Aura Experience Portal (AEP) and …

I'm currently writing Eclipse plug-ins, leveraging the JWT project. There's a great book for learning how to program plug-ins, and they have a site for it: http://www.qualityeclipse.com/ If you use Eclipse, you should read Chapter One on the site (free); even if you aren't programming plug-ins! They …

Since the last posting, I've had some worthwhile experiences with my VOIP.First, the HT286 worked perfectly. I'm working toward switching over my home phone services, too. I picked up the Gransdstream HandyTone 503, which provides 2 phone lines for 2 SIP trunks. The first thing I noticed during the …

I wanted to test the quality of using a VOIP adapter with Google Voice (GV). It is excellent. The latency is not noticeable, compared with a 1s-2s potential delay if you are using a soft-phone. You can also send and receive faxes! Overall, I think with a little effort, you …

A LYME server is Linux Yaws Mnesia Erlang - similar to how LAMP is Linux Apache (Tomcat) MySQL PHP, but of course, this system focuses on functional programming. I started studying functional programming awhile ago. It's pretty interesting. Here are some resources for you: The [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki …

Transcribing speech utterances is a highly repetitive task, usually performed by a pool of people who are good at typing.Out of the box, the speech server tools for transcribing are accessible through Visual Studio, and are not good for transcribing any volume of utterances. Email me if you want …

Unit testing code is important. If you make code changes in a library that other people are using, you want to make sure all of the code works as expected. Using NUnit is great for that. However, when it comes to speech applications, you probably manually test your applications before …

In the health industry, I've frequently run into the following predicament: User IDs are no longer simple numeric fields. Traditionally, an employee's Social Security number may have been used as an id, but HIPAA has put an end to that. For speech recognition, this could present a common tuning and …

I needed to add some simple, free FAX functionality to an application, so I invested a little time in doing it with Visual Studio Express Edition. Source from the web: Resulting image: I decided to make it use web browser content; seeing that it's pretty easy to format a web …