News · 12 May 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
Clarity Consulting is on a roll… They’ve just posted a really intersting sample of a protoype speech recognition application for Windows Phone 7:
At some point in the future it will be awesome when you can just tell your computer what to do and it does it – without typing to help those of us with a blistering 11 WPM hunk and peck technique. Siri, a mobile digital assistant using speech recognition was voted best tech at SXSW. I don’t know about that one. Although, I’m sure it will get better when Apple rebuilds it and bundles on iPhone 5. So how would you do that on WP7? There have been some videos floating around showing Bing with some voice control so obviously the phone has speech recognition. So what options are there:
– System.Speech? Not included in WP7/SL
– Nuance software like Siri? No WP7/SL version yet.
– Invoking the SAPI dlls on the phone? No automation factory in WP7 SL.
– Web services using System.Speech and mic on the phone? YES!
The last one was my least favorite but that works for now.
There’s currently no speech client APIs in WP7 so the workaround is to access a thid-party web service to do it. You can read more at the source link and download the code samples to try it out yourself.
Source: Clarity Consulting
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