Updated: July 9, 2020 (October 2, 2006)
SidebarWhat Happened to Speech Server?
Speech Server is a platform for building interactive voice response (IVR) applications, which allow users to make choices by speaking or pressing numbers on a telephone keypad and then retrieve information in the form of prerecorded messages and prompts or computer-generated speech.
The current Speech Server 2004 R2 product will be discontinued in Dec. 2007, and the technology will be renamed Speech Platform Services and merged into Communications Server 2007. This combination will simplify creation of applications that combine IVR with other functions such as presence-for example, applications that route users to the next available operator based on operator presence information and user voice responses. Speech Platform Services will add support for VoiceXML, a widely used markup language for IVR applications, and will also provide APIs as an alternative to markup languages for development. APIs will particularly benefit developers who are not doing Web development and would prefer to work in a conventional programming language.
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