StartTime Property

Microsoft Speech Platform SDK 11

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Gets the system time at the start of the recognition operation.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Speech.Recognition
Assembly:  Microsoft.Speech (in Microsoft.Speech.dll)

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public ReadOnly Property StartTime As DateTime
	Get
Visual Basic (Usage)
Dim instance As RecognizedAudio
Dim value As DateTime

value = instance.StartTime
C#
public DateTime StartTime { get; }

Property Value

Type: System..::..DateTime

The system time at the start of the recognition operation.

Remarks

The StartTime property gets the system time at the start of the recognition operation, which can be useful for latency and performance calculations.

The AudioPosition property gets the location in the input device's generated audio stream.

Examples

The following example handles the SpeechRecognitionEngine..::..SpeechRecognized event and outputs to the console information about the recognized audio that is associated with the recognition result.

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// Handle the SpeechRecognized event. 
void SpeechRecognizedHandler(object sender, SpeechRecognizedEventArgs e)
{
  if (e.Result == null) return;

  RecognitionResult result = e.Result;
  
  Console.WriteLine("Grammar({0}): {1}",
    result.Grammar.Name, result.Text);

  if (e.Result.Audio != null)
  {
    RecognizedAudio audio = e.Result.Audio;

    Console.WriteLine("   start time: {0}", audio.StartTime);
    Console.WriteLine("   encoding format: {0}", audio.Format.EncodingFormat);
    Console.WriteLine("   position: {0}, duration: {1}",
      audio.AudioPosition, audio.Duration);
  }

  // Add event handler code here.
}

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