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Speech recognition with Delphi

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Javier Pf

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Oct 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/18/98
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Hi!

Has anyone tested the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) or something similar with
Delphi? I would like to implement an application that use a speech
recognition engine and I would like to know your experience in this issue.

Thanks.

Javier Pflaum
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Stefan Hoffmeister

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Oct 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/19/98
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: "Javier Pf" <javi...@usa.net> wrote:

>Has anyone tested the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI)

I have not YET tested programming to that API, but the *engine* is
rubbish. Plain rubbish.

>or something similar with
>Delphi? I would like to implement an application that use a speech
>recognition engine and I would like to know your experience in this issue.

It should be as easy as importing a TLB file - I had a very quick look
at the IBM ViaVoice TLBs (*that's* an engine) and it appeared to be
next to trivial to do.

Again, I have spent about 10 minutes looking at the TLBs, not doing
anything with them, so I might be completely wrong with respect to
programmability.

IBM has an SDK somewhere around

http://www.software.ibm.com/is/voicetype/

which appears to be pretty much free (and perhaps even an old runtime
is freely available, at least for development). I still need to get
their SDK, though, having gotten a "real" ViaVoice (bundled) recently.

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N.Smit

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Oct 25, 1998, 2:00:00 AM10/25/98
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I've tested it. It worked. Some helpfull files i put up are at:

http://www.coaxnet.dyn.ml.org/speech/


N.Smit
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Javier Pf wrote in message <70di5i$60...@forums.borland.com>...
>Hi!
>
>Has anyone tested the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) or something similar with


>Delphi? I would like to implement an application that use a speech
>recognition engine and I would like to know your experience in this issue.
>

Gintaras Pikelis

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Oct 25, 1998, 2:00:00 AM10/25/98
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>I've tested it. It worked. Some helpfull files i put up are at:
>
>http://www.coaxnet.dyn.ml.org/speech/

Looks nice. Still need to run the demos.
But the animation is a litle bit too much :-)
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