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MSDN Webcast: Introducing Communications Server 2007 Speech Server (Part 2 of 4): Authoring an Interactive Voice-Response Application (Level 100)

Overview The presenter of this webcast discusses how to use the available development tools and the necessary steps for creating an Interactive Voice-Response (IVR) workflow application in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Speech Server. The attendee of this webcast will learn about the development features that are new to Communications Server 2007 Speech Server, such as creating grammar using the new Conversational Grammar Builder. This webcast also explains the differences between the three development environments: Speech Application Language Tags (SALT), VoiceXML, and interactive voice-response workflow, and it describe how to evaluate which environment is right for a person.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Microsoft
Live Date	28th August 2007 01:00 BST
Format	Webcast
Topics	Application Servers, XML, Groupware - Workflow

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