Initializes a new, empty instance of the GrammarBuilder class.

To add rules to an existing GrammarBuilder object, use the Add, Append, AppendDictation, AppendRuleReference, and AppendWildcard methods, and the Addition operator.

The speech recognizer can throw an exception when using a speech recognition grammar that contains duplicate semantic elements with the same key name or multiple semantic elements that could repeatedly modify the value of the same semantic element. For more information about building a speech recognition grammar that contains semantic information, see Add Semantics to a GrammarBuilder Grammar (Microsoft.Speech).

The following example uses GrammarBuilder and Choices objects to construct a grammar that can recognize either of the two phrases, "Make background colorChoice" or "Set background to colorChoice".

The example uses a Choices object to create a list of acceptable values for colorChoice from an array of String objects. A Choices object is analogous to the one-of element in the SRGS specification, and contains a set of alternate phrases, any one of which can be recognized when spoken. The example also uses a Choices object to group an array of two GrammarBuilder objects into a pair of alternative phrases that the resultant grammar can recognize. Alternate words or phrases are a component of most grammars, and the Choices object provides this functionality for grammars constructed with GrammarBuilder.

The example finally creates a Grammarobject from a GrammarBuilder constructed from a Choicesobject.

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private Grammar CreateColorGrammar() { // Create a set of color choices. Choices colorChoice = new Choices(new string[] {"red", "green", "blue"}); GrammarBuilder colorElement = new GrammarBuilder(colorChoice); // Create grammar builders for the two versions of the phrase. GrammarBuilder makePhrase = new GrammarBuilder("Make background"); makePhrase.Append(colorElement); GrammarBuilder setPhrase = new GrammarBuilder("Set background to"); setPhrase.Append(colorElement); // Create a Choices for the two alternative phrases, convert the Choices // to a GrammarBuilder, and construct the Grammar object from the result. GrammarBuilder bothPhrases = new GrammarBuilder(); Choices bothChoices = new Choices(new GrammarBuilder[] {makePhrase, setPhrase}); bothPhrases.Append(bothChoices); Grammar grammar = new Grammar(bothPhrases); grammar.Name = "backgroundColor"; return grammar; }

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