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Cool Developers STILL use Speech APIs
10 August 09 03:12 PM

My apologies that there have been no new posts on this blog for nearly a year.  Because my personal and professional lives have taken a new direction, my Microsoft blog will be closing. I highly recommend the Speech @ Microsoft blog for more up-to-date Read More...

Postedby Charles Oppermann | (Comments Off)    

Filed under: Speech - APIs, Microsoft, Miscellanous, SDK, History

Enumerating TTS Engines using System.Speech.Synthesizer
30 July 08 02:48 PM

Here is a quick and dirty C# console application that will list out the installed TTS engines and associated properties.  Make sure you add System.Speech to your project's list of references. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using Read More...

Postedby Charles Oppermann | 3 Comments    

Filed under: Speech - APIs, Text to Speech, System.Speech

SAPI Documentation Errata: ISpRecoGrammar::SetRuleState
25 April 08 12:46 PM

There is a typo in the documentation for the ISpRecoGrammar::SetRuleState method in SAPI 5.3 .  The input parameters are listed as: HRESULT SetRuleState( LPCWSTR * pszName , void * pReserved , SPRULESTATE NewState ); This instead it should be: HRESULT Read More...

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Filed under: Speech - APIs, SDK, SAPI 5.3

Speech Content in the Windows SDK
26 February 08 01:46 AM

I'm happy to announce the availability of the RTM release of the Windows SDK. This release - the first RTM one since Vista - contains the following speech-related items: Updated : SAPI 5.3 documentation Updated : System.Speech documentation Updated : Read More...

Postedby Charles Oppermann | 9 Comments    

Filed under: Speech - APIs, Text to Speech, Speech Recognition, Speech, SDK, SAPI 5.3

Background on Audio Volume in Windows Vista
18 April 07 09:33 AM

Our friend in the multimedia group and prolific blogger Larry Osterman is writing a series of articles on how volume is treated in Windows Vista. There is a whole new audio sub-system in Vista and Larry's blog is a great source of information for developers. Read More...

Postedby Charles Oppermann | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Speech - APIs, Text to Speech

Browse the Speech API 5.3 SDK Documentation Online
08 December 06 12:24 AM

You can download the full Windows SDK from here , but if you just want to read the documentation for SAPI, you can do so from this link . To browse the Managed Speech API documentation, here are the links to the various namespaces: System.Speech.AudioFormat Read More...

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Filed under: Speech - APIs

Microsoft Speech API SDK
24 November 06 09:58 AM

The Speech API Software Developers Kit (SAPI SDK) contains the documentation, samples, and header and library files to create applications and utilities that use speech recognition and voice synthesis. In addition, the SAPI SDK can be used to create speech Read More...

Postedby Charles Oppermann | 10 Comments    

Filed under: Speech - APIs, Microsoft, Text to Speech