The Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1 adds Automation support to the
features of the previous version of the Speech SDK. You can now use the
Win32 Speech API (SAPI) to develop speech applications with Visual
Basic ®, ECMAScript and other Automation languages. The SDK also
includes freely distributable text-to-speech (TTS) engines (in U.S.
English and Simplified Chinese) and speech recognition (SR) engines (in
U.S. English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese). http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5e86ec97-40a7-453f-b0ee-6583171b4530&displaylang=en Speech Content in the Windows SDK The Speech SDK is no longer shipped separately and is part of the Windows SDK
the availability of the RTM release of the Windows SDK. This release - the first RTM one since Vista - contains the following speech-related items:
The Windows SDK completely replaces the older SAPI 5.1 SDK and supports development on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008. Customers can download this SDK as a DVD image (1,330MB ISO file) from this location: Or go through a guided setup process where only the components they need are downloaded. Speech is part of the base install. I'm particularly interested in your feedback regarding the Windows SDK as a whole and in particular getting speech information. |