Voice reading and voice recognition

[BobAchgill]

I would like to add both voice to my program to read
aloud to the user

And,

I would like to add Speech recognition to my same program
so he can speak text into my program.

As a VB.Net developer, what is the best choice for adding
these functions into my code?

My platforms are Windows 2000 and XP.

Just point me to the onramp. )

Thanks!

Bob

 

[W.G. Ryan eMVP]

Speech Server comes to mind. Check out Casey's stuff on
www.brains-n-brawn.com - he's got a good bit of stuff there - that's a
mighty big area you're asking about and a lot of different ways to tackle
it. There are a ton of third party components out there that do IVR and
Voice Rec, and I know some of the more popular ones have their API's
exposed. Speech Server and SALT remain pretty good alternatives though from
my experience.

 

[BobAchgill]

Does it narrow the playing field to say...

I would like to stand on the shoulders of whatever is
already distributed as a integral part of Windows XP
operating system so my user does not have to download
allot to get my program going.

And I would like to use free stuff on the coding side
using my Visual Studio .Net 2003

And all I am looking for is to be able to pass a word
that I have as a variable to a TTS engine to speak.

And all I am looking for is to be able to receive a word
from a speech recog engine to go off and do something
with it in my program.

Bob

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Web forms
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...C4-188C-4547-A9D6-1671132A39A1&displaylang=en

Windows Forms
http://www.microsoft.com/speech/download/sdk51/

Ken
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I would like to add both voice to my program to read
aloud to the user

And,

I would like to add Speech recognition to my same program
so he can speak text into my program.

As a VB.Net developer, what is the best choice for adding
these functions into my code?

My platforms are Windows 2000 and XP.

Just point me to the onramp. )

Thanks!

Bob