Installing or Removing Microsoft Speech Server

Microsoft Speech Server 2004 (MSS) provides English (U.S.) as the default language for development and deployment. To support speech applications in another language, you must install the appropriate language pack. The following language packs are available:

• French (Canada)
• Spanish (United States)

Installing a Language Pack

A language pack enables you to develop MSS applications in another language. After you install a language pack, you can use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 to select the language engine and make modifications to the phonemes, enabling speech recognition and text-to-speech emulation/simulation with the new language's model and voices.

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Idapt i4 Charges 4000 Gadgets

Idapt i4 Charges 4000 Gadgets, Four At a Time.

If you're like me, until your house is beaming juice to your gadgets wirelessly, you will resolutely consider charging stuff a pain in the ass. The Idapt i4 gets where we're coming from and offers one word of consolation: consolidation.



The i4 is the latest in a long line of chargers from the company, though this latest and greatest model lets you charge four gadgets (up from the three with the i3, and two with the i2, before that). It also has a shiny finish, which, when charging a Sixaxis controller, gives it the fleeting appearance of a PS3. Bonus!

Of course, the i4 will charge just about anything you throw at it, including "iPhone, iPod, Blackberry, Nintendo DS, PSP, PS3 controller, GPS systems, digital cameras, and Bluetooth products," all with the help of interchangeable tips that can be popped in and out of slots on the base. The i4 has three such slots and one USB port, adding up to one gadget-charging grand slam. To peruse the full tip catalog, consult this page on Idapt's site.

The i4 also sports LED lights to indicate when things are charged up and ready to go, as well as an switch to shut down the whole charging operation, if you feel a sudden pang of guilt about ravaging our planet's precious fossil fuels.
The Idapt i4 will be available in May, in shiny black or shiny white, for $59.99.

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