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What’s new in Windows Speech Recognition?

Now that the Beta of Windows 7 is out, it’s time to talk about the improvements and new features in Windows Speech Recognition. For Windows 7, we focused primarily on improving the user experience and removing the “rough spots” that we did not have time Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 1 Comments
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More ways to fix problems with dictation

One common cause of dictation not working is that CTFMon is not running.  This is a helper process used by the Text Services Framework to implement things like global compartments and the like. If dictation is not working, try running this command Read More...
Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 12:21 PM by Eric Brown | 2 Comments
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Inline Dictation commands

I’ve heard from a number of sources that there isn’t any good documentation about the ‘inline’ dictation commands.  These commands can be uttered in the middle of a dictation stream (in other words, you don’t have to stop speaking to use these commands), Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:15 PM by Eric Brown | 1 Comments
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When Dictation doesn't Work

WSR Dictation should always work in Wordpad.  If you're having problems with dictation, make sure it works in Wordpad.   If dictation doesn’t work in WordPad: 1)  Start regedit, go to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Speech\Preferences\en-us\ Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:17 PM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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Oops!

If you've tried to use the modified version of Scintilla that I described in my MSDN article , you will find that the zipped sources don't actually have the changes that I made. That was my fault; when I was packaging the sources, I had two versions of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:01 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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The usual path

Text Services Framework assumes that your text service follows a particular processing path. If your text service doesn't conform to these assumptions, then your programming job will be more complicated. (Not impossible, just more complex.) The text service Read More...
Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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How do I use RichEdit 4.1?

Another thing I didn't talk about in my article was how to make sure your rich text edit controls are based on RichEdit 4.1 (which has TSF support). You need to do two things: 1) change your window class name from RICHEDIT_CLASS to MSFTEDIT_CLASS, and Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:18 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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Easy Dictation support for Windowless RichEdit controls

In my article in MSDN, I mention that there are some easy ways to enable dictation support in controls that don't normally support dictation. All the methods I described assume that the control has a window. There is a way to enable dictation support Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:00 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
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Generating Candidates from an Application

Kirby left a comment to my post on candidates asking when a text service should create an ITfCandidateList. The answer is that when the text service wants to show candidates (via a preserved key or other mechanism), it should show its modal UI, and quite Read More...
Posted Friday, May 25, 2007 11:43 AM by Eric Brown | 0 Comments
 
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