Hello! Well, I found the speech control panel on my XP for both sapi4 and
sapi5. I think sapi5 came with either the Windows Speech SDK 5.1 toolkit which
you can get for free from them, or it came with my office 2003. Either way,
neither control panel applet shows up in the control panel (some irregularity
in the inf files, I think), but they ARE in the system32 folder. So I wrote
some PP scripts to access those dialogs.
Yes, I did download espeaking, but haven't tried it yet, but I think I
might. I don't have lots to spend on Dragon Dictate.
The SDK I mentioned above may have some sort of COM reference. What do I
look for; I will tell you whether I have it or not.
--- In [email protected], "entropyreduction"
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> --- In [email protected], "brother.gabriel" <brgabriel@> wrote:
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> > Thanks! Actually, I am running XP and am currently trying to figure out
> > how to get a Speech Control Panel. I don't seem to have one!
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> Even if there was one, I don;t think it would do you much good
> in XP, without third part software to create and tune voice data and
> establish a grammar.
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> That said, I find with SAPI 5.1 installed on an even older system I can get
> my hands on the COM object that would allow monitoring voice behaviour,
>
> local ISR = com.create_object("SAPI.SpSharedRecognizer")
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> (long discussion of woes of trying to use it at
> http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic26841-90.html; I suspect it's
> of no use outside Vista/7).
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> Even if you had voice data configured, at the moment COM plugin doesn't
> respond to events, and this looks like a classic place you need them (COM
> plugin needs to be informed when a word is recognised...). I'll get around
> to events someday...
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> Meantime, cheap and cheerful and maybe even useful voice recognition:
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> e-Speaking Voice and Speech Recognition 3.7.9
> http://www.e-speaking.com/
>
> The Real Stuff (e.g. Naturally Speaking aka Dragon Dictate) costs lots.
