Microsoft Speech SDK
SAPI 5.1
About the SDK
The Microsoft Speech SDK is designed to work with the industry-leading Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) and Microsoft continuous speech recognition engine and Microsoft concatenated speech synthesis engine (or text-to-speech). Microsoft SDK includes tools, samples, and documentation for building speech applications.
Microsoft Visual Basic Support
A set of COM-supported speech Automation interfaces is included in this release of Microsoft Speech SDK. That means languages other than C/C++ may now use SAPI for application development. The languages themselves need to support OLE automation. Common languages which may be used includes Visual Basic, C#, and JScript. See Automation Interfaces and Objects for additional information.
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