Joe Calev's WebLog

Posts and information about Microsoft Office Communications Server and sometimes off topic posts.

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 10 - Introduction to SDP

OK, so now we have a client and a server that can both sign in, create a dialog, and recognize when...

Author: jscalev Date: 05/18/2007

Picture of the week #4

Picture 091 Originally uploaded by kirispupis. OK, I admit I am a bit late with the picture for this...

Author: jscalev Date: 05/17/2007

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 9 - Detecting when the session has been closed

You have probably already noticed that UCMA is currently a low level API. The advantage, of course,...

Author: jscalev Date: 05/17/2007

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 8 - Breaking the connection

Welcome to part eight of my UCMA introduction! This so far is my most ambitious blog endeavor to...

Author: jscalev Date: 05/16/2007

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 7 - Unregister

Before we get to more details on sending messages, we need to talk a little more about signing out....

Author: jscalev Date: 05/15/2007

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 6 - Accepting the INVITE

Yesterday as homework your job was to create a simple server that can sign in and sign out. In one...

Author: jscalev Date: 05/14/2007

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 5 - SignalingSession

So far we have a simple client that doesn’t do very much. In the next few days, we are going to add...

Author: jscalev Date: 05/11/2007

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 4 - Signing Out

Yesterday we finally got into some UCMA coding – allowing our client to sign in to the OCS server....

Author: jscalev Date: 05/10/2007

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 3 - Signing In

OK, so I admit that yesterday’s post was a bit lacking in excitement. Today we are going to take the...

Author: jscalev Date: 05/09/2007

Picture of the week #3

IMG_6850 Originally uploaded by kirispupis. This week I did not take very many pictures because I...

Author: jscalev Date: 05/07/2007

Introduction to the UCMA API - Part 1 - API overview

This is the first of a series of installments on creating applications in the latest Office...

Author: jscalev Date: 05/07/2007

Picture of the week #2

IMG_6745 Originally uploaded by kirispupis. This last week I was finally able to get a few decent...

Author: jscalev Date: 04/29/2007

An interesting blog to check out

Between work at MS, several hobbies, and my two kids I find that I have very little time to read...

Author: jscalev Date: 04/24/2007

My picture of the week

IMG_6644 Originally uploaded by kirispupis. I have decided to start a new feature of the blog where...

Author: jscalev Date: 04/23/2007

The DetectAnsweringMachine activity

At long last I have finished a post on the new DetectAnsweringMachine activity in the latest Beta....

Author: jscalev Date: 04/19/2007

Some funny conversations with my kids

Sorry, but as a parent I am legally binded towards one of these posts every once in awhile. For...

Author: jscalev Date: 04/17/2007

Look at me!

IMG_6288 Originally uploaded by kirispupis. I thought I'd blog about a bit more unusual a picture...

Author: jscalev Date: 04/13/2007

One photo that changed my life

sun in fog Originally uploaded by kirispupis. I have always had some interest in photography. When I...

Author: jscalev Date: 04/11/2007

A slight change to my blog

Currently I am working on the most difficult blog topic to date - a series of blogs about writing...

Author: jscalev Date: 04/10/2007

A short note about simulating unsupported engines

I have received a number of replies concerning my posts on how to simulate unsupported languages...

Author: jscalev Date: 04/02/2007

Return of the blogger!

Well sort of... I've had a few comments that my blog has been empty recently. To be honest, I ran...

Author: jscalev Date: 03/28/2007

Speech Recognition in Vista

So I must admit that even though speech recognition in Vista was created by one of our partner...

Author: jscalev Date: 02/27/2007

How to approximate phonemes for a non supported language

Yesterday I wrote about how to create a grammar for a language for which we do not have a...

Author: jscalev Date: 02/23/2007

How to recognize languages for which there is no recognizer

This is the first part of a two part post where I will tackle the problem of creating grammars in a...

Author: jscalev Date: 02/22/2007

Let's hear your LCS/OCS questions!

As new members of the Office Communications Server team, my team has been spending a lot of time...

Author: jscalev Date: 02/21/2007

Using message queues for outbound calls

Many of you familiar with Microsoft Speech Server/Office Communications Server are likely aware that...

Author: jscalev Date: 02/20/2007

UCAS team mentioned in CRN article

Recently the GM of my group was interviewed at CRN. For those of you used to the MSS (Microsoft...

Author: jscalev Date: 02/15/2007

Best practices for concept recognition grammars

As some of you may know, one of the new features with Speech Server 2007 within Office...

Author: jscalev Date: 02/13/2007

Recognizing non supported languages for vocabulary words

As I mentioned in a previous post, I am working on rebuilding my foreign language vocabulary program...

Author: jscalev Date: 02/09/2007

Learning multiple languages at a time - my system

As some of you may know, foreign languages are a big hobby of mine. I currently can speak French,...

Author: jscalev Date: 02/06/2007

Writing globalized speech applications part III - Strategies for determining the language

When creating a multilingual application, one thing that is often overlooked is how to determine...

Author: jscalev Date: 11/08/2006

Writing globalized speech applications - part I introduction

For those of you who have attempted to write a speech application that works in different cultures...

Author: jscalev Date: 11/06/2006

Moving on... (sort of)

For those of you who know me, you may already know that for the past two years I have worked on the...

Author: jscalev Date: 11/02/2006

How to use XOML in speech applications

Those of you who are more familiar with workflow may have already heard of XOML, but in essence it...

Author: jscalev Date: 10/30/2006

Creating a custom activity to make a supervised transfer

Important March 2007 Update: Please do not use the code below in the latest OCS Beta. If you would...

Author: jscalev Date: 05/25/2006

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