Windows 8 speech to text and text to speech API

windows windows-8 text-to-speech voice-recognition speech-to-text
cjds picture cjds · Oct 9, 2012 · Viewed 12.4k times · Source

I guess the question pretty much says it all?

And I would prefer not to access cloud services such as Microsoft Translator and Project Hawaii?

Is there any direct API I can access?

(For metro apps)

Answer

vitaliy2012 picture vitaliy2012 · Dec 28, 2012

I was able to get the Microsoft Speech Platform working on my Windows 7 laptop (both Voice Recognition and Text-to-Speech). You just need to install SDK and the runtime. You can also download additional Voice and Language packs. I would think it should work on Windows 8 as well. Here is a good sample on how to set it up to recognize some basic phrases like "Find restaurants near Seattle".

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