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What's new in 4.0
 | Lots of telephony
 | New objects designed for telephony |
 | New objects designed for using speech and TAPI |
 | Telephony controls |
 | Telephony sample applications |
 | Telephony tools |
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 | ActiveX components
 | Use in Visual Basic, VB-Script, Visual Basic for Applications, Java,
Java-Script |
 | Lots of samples |
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 | Continuous dictation support in Voice Dictation |
 | Other samples and tools
 | Grammar Compiler - Easy to use grammar compiler |
 | Wave editor |
 | Animated mouth |
 | Speech recognition and text-to-speech stress tests |
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 | New direct text-to-speech and speech recognition APIs
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What changed from 2.0 to 3.0
 | New APIs:
 | A new high level module, "Voice Dictation" that allows
applications to easily incorporate dictation. |
 | Several new audio source/destinations: Recognize from a wave file,
text-to-speech to a wave file, monitor the audio going to the recognizer, and send
text-to-speech to DirectSound |
 | Speech toolkit APIs: Microphone Setup Wizard, Phoneme Conversion
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 | "Local web site" that allows you to quickly and easily find
what you're looking for in the SDK. |
 | Documentation loadable by VC 5.0. |
 | Lots more demo applications and sample source code. Including:
 | Text-to-Speech demo application with lip syncronization |
 | Dictation demos and sample source code. |
 | An accuracy test application. |
 | Simple speech driven adventure game |
 | More sample audio source and destination objects |
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