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Dictation, Windows Speech Recognition, and Text Services Framework.
Hardcore SAPI programmers know that you can show the various SR engine user experiences (user...
Date: 09/12/2013
Raymond Chen wrote a post about retrieving the text under the cursor using UI Automation, and he had...
Date: 04/10/2013
If you have a command grammar, and you need a word with an unusual pronunciation, you can use the...
Date: 03/07/2012
I’ve received a number of requests from people who want to train the recognizer from wave...
Date: 03/06/2012
The most influential SF movie of all time (referenced and ripped off by everyone from Kubrick to...
Date: 05/03/2010
If you’ve done any development with the shared recognizer, you’ve probably had problems determining...
Date: 03/22/2010
Implementing SAPI training is relatively hard, and the documentation doesn’t really tell you what...
Date: 03/15/2010
If you’re developing a text service for Windows XP, you’ve likely found that your composition gets...
Date: 03/08/2010
I’ve seen a couple of questions come by the listen alias about using an in-process speech...
Date: 03/01/2010
When WSR shows a window (for example, the alternates dialog, the Disambiguation Numbers UI, or the...
Date: 08/25/2009
In a previous post, I mentioned that you need to set the GUID_PROP_COMPOSING property across text in...
Date: 05/15/2009
Now that the Beta of Windows 7 is out, it’s time to talk about the improvements and new features in...
Date: 01/29/2009
The TSF samples (long missing from MSDN) have finally been uploaded to the MSDN Code Gallery. ...
Date: 11/14/2008
Many people have emailed me asking about the TSF samples on MSDN. They’re supposed to be on...
Date: 10/22/2008
One common cause of dictation not working is that CTFMon is not running. This is a helper...
Date: 09/05/2008
I’ve heard from a number of sources that there isn’t any good documentation about the ‘inline’...
Date: 08/26/2008
David LeBlanc wrote an excellent overview of encrypted documents in Office. A long, long time...
Date: 07/11/2008
Well, for one thing, it’s not that great for grabbing the current selection in the foreground...
Date: 06/25/2008
WSR Dictation should always work in Wordpad. If you're having problems with dictation, make...
Date: 05/22/2008
In an earlier post on keyboards, I talked briefly about text service categories. I'd like to...
Date: 03/14/2008
If you're building a text service DLL, you almost certainly don't want to use Visual Studio 2008's...
Date: 01/17/2008
I recently had two people ask me the same question: "Why can't I insert more than one character into...
Date: 12/22/2007
If you've tried to use the modified version of Scintilla that I described in my MSDN article, you...
Date: 11/14/2007
I got caught by this recently. ITfCompartmentEventSink::OnChange means what it says. If you...
Date: 11/05/2007
I've been working with compartments recently, and I've run across a few 'features' that tripped me...
Date: 11/02/2007
Text Services Framework assumes that your text service follows a particular processing path. If your...
Date: 10/08/2007
I received an interesting email the other day asking about how to get the character code from the...
Date: 10/05/2007
Another useful, but underutilized, group of functions in TSF are those relating to Input Scopes....
Date: 07/10/2007
One interface that I hadn't paid much attention to in TSF is ITfContextKeyEventSink. What does this...
Date: 06/27/2007
I've received a few emails asking about debugging Text Services. I figured if two people actually...
Date: 06/19/2007
I don't have anything better to blog about right now (I'm in the middle of reviews and designs), so...
Date: 06/15/2007
Another thing I didn't talk about in my article was how to make sure your rich text edit controls...
Date: 06/14/2007
In my article in MSDN, I mention that there are some easy ways to enable dictation support in...
Date: 06/12/2007
You might have noticed that I haven't really talked about text stores on this blog. That's because...
Date: 06/09/2007
I suppose while I'm sending out the random link propagation, I should also mention LOLCODE - the...
Date: 05/31/2007
Enough about TSF for a while. :) I found this amazingly addictive game the other day called Desktop...
Date: 05/31/2007
The Text Services Framework makes a number of assumptions when you register your text service as a...
Date: 05/30/2007
So how do you create the candidates from within the text service? Well, the first thing you need is...
Date: 05/29/2007
Kirby left a comment to my post on candidates asking when a text service should create an...
Date: 05/25/2007
As I mentioned earlier, TSF provides very basic services in applications that are not TSF-aware. In...
Date: 05/21/2007
Probably the most annoying thing about writing a text service is dealing with all the variations in...
Date: 05/18/2007
One of the harder parts of writing a text service is learning how to 'think' text services. Here are...
Date: 05/17/2007
The TSF tour ends here, with a brief discussion of UI Elements in Vista If your text service wishes...
Date: 05/16/2007
In Windows Vista, TSF added the ability to run in locations where it had previously been disabled....
Date: 05/15/2007
If your text service supports multiple interpretations of the same input, and you wish to allow...
Date: 05/14/2007
TSF allows text services to offer optional extension points through the ITfFunctionProvider...
Date: 05/11/2007
If your text service wishes to display some UI on the language bar, then your service will need to...
Date: 05/10/2007
If your text service wishes to display text in different colors (e.g., displaying the current...
Date: 05/09/2007
The next thing that I'd like to talk about are properties. While the TSF manager implements basic...
Date: 05/08/2007
We have finally finished looking at the interfaces that TSF implements for you. Now we start looking...
Date: 05/07/2007