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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
Module |
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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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