If you have a command grammar, and you need a word with an unusual pronunciation, you can use the PRON attribute of the <PHRASE> tag to specify a pronunciation using either a phoneme representation or an explicit array of PhoneIDs (phoneme identifiers) that you have extracted from the SpPhoneConverter...

If you’ve done any development with the shared recognizer, you’ve probably had problems determining when the shared recognizer is in sleep mode. Determining when the shared recognizer is OFF is easy enough; ISpRecognizer::GetRecoState will return SPRST_INACTIVE. But figuring out the sleep state is much...

I’ve seen a couple of questions come by the listen alias about using an in-process speech recognizer.  When you use an in-process recognizer, you have to specify a lot more than you need to specify with the shared recognizer. In particular, you need to specify an audio source and a recognition engine...