Latest on SAPI 5.3

People are asking, so I asked Chuck Opperman (our API PM) to summarize the latest on how to get the SAPI 5.3 bits.  Here's his answer:

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/downloads/products/getthebeta/>

That can get you the components.  Now, it's not just a simple as downloading one file.  You'll need the following:

      .NET Framework 3.0 (formally WinFX) Runtime Components, Beta 2

That is just the binary components that include the System.Speech namespace. 

For documentation, you can download the Windows SDK (Beta 2) for Windows Vista and WinFX.  This is a huge (2GB) file:

<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=13F8E273-F5EA-4B7B-B022-97755838DB94>

To just read the documentation on-line, which also includes our documentation on SAPI 5.3, go to:

<http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/>

In addition, if you are using Visual Studio 2005, you can get the "Orcas" tools that enable IntelliSense support for the new .NET Framework 3.0.  I highly recommend this:

<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=31F9F15D-00E0-4241-8014-2F12679119AA>

For a good overview of the new System.Speech namespace, here is Robert Brown's MSDN article:

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/speechinWindowsVista/>