SharePoint Thoughts

When I was running through the Office Communications Server: Speech Server tutorial, Creating a Speech Project [found here], I ran into the following error, which plagued me throughout the runthrough.

<Event
xmlns=“http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event“>

<System>

<Provider
Name=“Office Communications Server 2007 Speech Server“ />

<EventID
Qualifiers=“49152“>24911</EventID>

<Level>2</Level>

<Task>4</Task>

<Keywords>0×80000000000000</Keywords>

<TimeCreated
SystemTime=“2008-09-23T23:38:43.000Z“ />

<EventRecordID>3384</EventRecordID>

<Channel>Application</Channel>

<Computer>Dev-PC</Computer>

<Security />

</System>

<EventData>

<Data>Failed to compile grammar. (Microsoft.SpeechServer.SpeechEngineServices.UnsupportedFormatException) -> Failed to load lexicon ‘http://localhost/PizzaOrder/Lexicons/PizzaOrder.lex’ referred to in grammar ‘Microsoft.SpeechServer.SpeechEngineServices.Proxy.GrammarRuleUri’. [Line=2, Position=11] (System.FormatException) -> Failed to download HTTP resource ‘http://localhost/PizzaOrder/Lexicons/PizzaOrder.lex’. (Microsoft.SpeechServer.SpeechEngineServices.FailedToFindResourceException) -> The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. (System.Net.WebException)</Data>

<Data>http://localhost/PizzaOrder/Grammars/PizzaOrder.grxml</Data>

</EventData>

</Event>

Well apparently when creating the project, you were given the option to create custom Lexicons for your Grammar file. If you clear out these files, the solution will build, and you can use the voice response debugging window.

This happens because the MIME Type is not registered for .lex files in IIS, seen in KB938284.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, follow these steps:

This solution was found using the MSDN Forums, quite a useful resource.

http://forums.microsoft.com/unifiedcommunications/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3915154&SiteID=57&mode=1