The Microsoft Speech SDK was developed to be a platform for building server-side, voice-enabled applications. Using Microsoft's speech recognition and speech synthesis (TTS), you can add speech capability that enhances users' interaction with your applications.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
The following tools are new for version 11 of the Grammar Development Tools:
CheckPhrase.exe:
· This new tool takes a phrase and a grammar as input and outputs whether the phrase is in the grammar. Check Phrase emits the custom pronunciations associated with a found phrase.
Confusability.exe:
· This new tool identifies phrases in a grammar that are phonetically similar. This helps you to detect phrases that could ultimately cause users to have a poor experience. Confusability accepts multiple grammar files as input and performs its analysis on the entire set of specified input files.
· You can choose whether or not the tool emits confusable results for phrases whose semantics match. By default, warnings and results are only emitted when semantics are different.
· For advanced analysis, the /SemanticPath option allows you to filter the results to compare only the semantic nodes that you specify.
Enhanced:
GrammarValidator.exe:
· Validates the syntax for the grammar element's sap...