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From: gavin@scs.leeds.ac.uk (G E Churcher)
Subject: Re: Speech Recognition For Visual Basic
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grahams@ccir.ed.ac.uk (Graham Stott) wrote:
>I need some help finding a speech recognition engine for MS Windows which
>will allow me to incorporate continuous speech recognition in Visual
>Basic applications. Word spotting is desirable and the system should be
>speaker independant or very easily trained.

Speech Systems Incorporated have a speech development kit for Windows
which provides a Visual Basic VBX for speech recognition. The kit
is the PE500 Speech Development Kit with the following specs:

 - speaker independent ( but American male/female! )
 - continuous speech
 - a very simple form of keyword spotting
 - large level vocab
 - context-free syntax
 - N-best *utterance* decoding
 - Text-to-speech (unfortunately similar to Stephen Hawkin's sim voice!)
 - set of APIs and DLLs for most Windows macro / library calling programs
 - a wizard to attach SR to any(?) Windows app

I am happy to answer any further questions about it - I have one on my PC.

Gavin



