Microsoft Speech III: Setting up a pluggable infrastructure

This post will build on the work done in Microsoft Speech II, where we saw how to interact with our computer via voice. In this tutorial we will build a plugin infrastructure which we will use to add functionality to our Speech Project in the future. While we won’t be adding any new functionality in this tutorial, we will be refactoring what we had into a “Personality” plugin....

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Microsoft Speech II: Getting your computer to listen

In this post I’ll show you how to take our simple project from the first example, Microsoft Speech I, and get it to understand input spoken into a microphone. Note that everything I’m showing can be found in the MSDN pages for the Speech API. Before we get started, make sure you have a microphone and it’s hooked up to your PC and all that other obvious stuff…. Lets begin...

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Microsoft Speech I: Getting your computer to talk

This is the first of what will hopefully be a series of posts that detail my explorations with the Microsoft Speech recognition and synthesis libraries built into Vista. I am working on automating certain parts of my home and (after seeing Iron Man), realized that I needed to see if I could get my house to talk with me. Now I’m not trying to write an app that I can chat with in such a way...

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