Audio devices (feature)

Applies to: Lync 2013 | Lync Server 2013

Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 4.0 provides the following integrated audio devices:

• Recorder

  For more information, see Recorder.

• Player

  For more information, see Player.

• Tone controller for Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) tones and Fax tones

  For more information, see ToneController.

• Speech recognition connector and speech synthesis connector

  For more information, see SpeechRecognitionConnector and SpeechSynthesisConnector.

Applications can use audio devices attached to media flows to implement scenarios such as the following:

• Use a Player object to play prerecorded prompts in an interactive voice response (IVR) application.

• Use a Recorder object to record messages or conversations in a call.

• Use a ToneController object to receive or send DTMF commands and perform actions on these DTMF commands, or to send or receive Fax tones.

• Use a SpeechRecognitionConnector object, in conjunction with the Microsoft.Speech namespace, to perform speech recognition.

• Use a SpeechSynthesisConnector object, in conjunction with the Microsoft.Speech namespace, to render text as speech.