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The Microsoft Speech Server team is accepting nominations for our Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for MSS v2.0! 

We are looking for enthusiastic participants to build a real customer application and provide detailed feedback on our product between October 2005 and June 2006.

If you are interested, please let me know by July 1, 2005.

Program Description

Microsoft Speech Server (MSS) is a speech recognition enabled IVR that allows the extension of ASP.NET applications to the telephone. New features in MSS v.2.0 include: additional (managed) APIs to allow speech application development in C# and other.NET languages, native support for Voice Over IP (VOIP) and SIP, support for additional languages, focusing initially on UK English and German, and later adding support for more languages, improved design and maintenance tools, and automated tuning and reporting components. The MSS TAP program is targeting companies that will develop and deploy real applications on MSS v2.0 between October 2005 and June 2006.

Participant Benefits

• Early access to the new version of Microsoft Speech Server
• Ability to provide feedback to MSS product group and influence development process
• Close relationship with MSS product group with dedicated TAP program liaison
• Individual MSS team technical expert for your project to answer your questions
• Product support for issues encountered during development and deployment of TAP project application
• Free training on Speech Server v2.0 and hands-on app development lab session(s)
• Necessary software and licenses provided free of charge for project development (MSS, Windows 2003, SQL Server,etc.)
• Free MSDN Universal Subscription
• A limited number of software licenses provided free of charge for production environment (details TBD)
• Microsoft Partner Program credit (details TBD)