yes it is - according to messageboards, there is Speech .NET coming in summer time.
I am playing around with SDK 5.1 which doesn't seem to be that bad. I have sample C# application running using it. there is another good article about voice at: http://www.wronghands.net:8000/myVoices/ farhan You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.