Speech Functionality in Windows Vista
See also: Windows Speech RecognitionWindows Vista includes a number of new speech-related features including:
- Speech control of the full Windows GUI and applications
- New tutorial, microphone wizard, and UI for controlling speech recognition
- New version of the Speech API runtime: SAPI 5.3
- Built-in updated Speech Recognition engine (Version 8)
- New Speech Synthesis engine and SAPI voice Microsoft Anna
- Managed code speech API (codenamed SpeechFX)
- Speech recognition support for 8 languages at release time: U.S. English, U.K. English, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French and German, with more language to be released later.
- Microsoft Agent most notably, and all other Microsoft speech applications use SAPI 5.
Read more about this topic: Microsoft Speech API
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