Posted: September 26th, 2012 | Author: Michael | Filed under: Lync Development | 2 Comments »
Tomorrow (September 27) at 1:00pm EDT I’ll be doing a half-hour webinar with ConQuest Technology Services on custom solutions using the Lync development platform. I’ll be giving a general overview of three types of solutions, and the business needs they can help solve. These are the three topics:
- Application Integration
- Real-Time Alerting
- Communications Enabled Business Processes
If you’re interested, you can register using the following link:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8750105193089622528
Posted: September 25th, 2012 | Author: Michael | Filed under: UCMA 3.0 | Tags: dial plan, outbound, PSTN, voice policy | No Comments »
Several different types of UCMA applications need to place calls to the PSTN via the Mediation Server: outbound dialers, click-to-call applications, auto-attendants, and so forth. At some point, you may deploy one of these applications to a new environment, having tested it extensively, only to be stopped in your tracks by an exception like the following when your application tries to place outbound PSTN calls:
Microsoft.Rtc.Signaling.FailureResponseException:A 403 (Forbidden) response was received from the network and the operation failed. See the exception details for more information. Continue reading “Don’t forget your voice policy!” »
Posted: September 17th, 2012 | Author: Michael | Filed under: UCMA 3.0 | Tags: 183 Session Progress, AudioVideoCall, early media, early offer, media, PSTN, UCMA 3.0 | 4 Comments »
One of the more common uses of UCMA is to create outbound dialer applications. Unfortunately, many people run into a frustrating problem at first when building dialers in UCMA: the first few seconds of audio seem to get lost somehow. When someone picks up the phone and says “Hello,” the first few seconds of audio back to the dialer get clipped, and there is often a delay before the recipient of the call hears the UCMA application play its message. Continue reading “Avoiding clipping with outbound UCMA calls” »
Posted: September 6th, 2012 | Author: Michael | Filed under: Lync Development | Tags: SAPI, speech | 1 Comment »
One thing that can be slightly confusing about the speech synthesis and recognition features in UCMA is that there are two completely separate but very similar namespaces with speech-related classes. The Microsoft.Speech and System.Speech namespaces share many of the same class names (e.g., System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer vs. Microsoft.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer), but belong to two different speech APIs, and function differently. I’ve run into a couple of mix-ups with these two namespaces, and I’m sure that others have too, so I thought I’d write up a quick explanation of what’s going on here. Continue reading “Microsoft.Speech and System.Speech” »