Creating Speech Applications

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This section provides the following information for users of the Microsoft Speech Application SDK Version 1.1 (SASDK):

Design Decisions

See Design Decisions for information about the two types of speech applications—voice-only and multimodal—and their differences and similarities.

Building Speech Applications

See Building Speech Applications for information about the types of deployment clients for speech applications, and a suggested task sequence for application development.

Enabling Speech Recognition

See Enabling Speech Recognition for information about using Speech Grammar Editor to create, edit, and maintain grammars that define user input and provide speech applications with useful information.

Prompting the User

See Prompting the User for information about using Speech Prompt Editor to create, edit, and maintain the prompts that an application uses to speak to a user.

Creating Speech-Enabled Web Pages

See Creating Speech-Enabled Web Pages for information about using Speech Control Editor to add Microsoft ASP.NET Speech Controls and Microsoft ASP.NET Application Speech Controls to ASP.NET pages in a speech application, and provide access to speech functionality.

Debugging Speech Applications

See Debugging Speech Applications for information about using Speech Debugging Console to debug both voice-only and multimodal speech applications.

Keyboard Shortcuts

See Keyboard Shortcuts for information about the keyboard shortcuts used in the SASDK.

Sample Voice-only Applications

See the Sample Applications page on the Speech Technologies Web site to download the source code and supporting materials for the voice-only versions of the following applications. These samples illustrate creating voice-only services from existing Web applications.

  • ASP.NET Commerce Starter Kit. This is a voice-only version of the "IBuySpy" Commerce Sample in the ASP.NET Starter Kit, a fictional commerce Web site for selling spy-related products.
  • Fitch and Mather Stocks. This is a voice-only version of the "Fitch and Mather Stocks" Web application, a fictitious online stock trading company.

Troubleshooting

See Troubleshooting Resources for information about and links to troubleshooting content on the Web.