Server or Stand Alone

posted by  jhorra (5)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

At SpeechTek a common question was how speech could be embedded on devices. Speech Server is a server based speech recognition, application control, prompting and speech synthesis platform. You can access this powerful platform two ways: 1) telephone only – you call into the Server which creates a voice browser the you interact with and 2) you access the speech application through Internet Explorer on your desktop or your PocketPC/Smartphone. In both cases the speech server does the heavy lifting of speech recognition/speech synthesis/prompt playing and you have to have some connection to