Microsoft Speech Recognition / COM interfaces

[Eric S. Johansson]

Tom Lloyd wrote:
> Is there any millage in using the Microsoft speech recognition engine. I have
> no experience of using it but I can create the bridge from wine to linux. I
> havealready created the Text to speech element that now works in linux using
> Orca and speech dispatcher. It works quite nicely and i have had the speech
> recognition working but not trained it etc or really tried it for
> performance.
> 
> Possibly if there is a com method for interfacing into Dragon Naturally
> Speaking like SAPI then it will work as well. This method can work I am mid
> writing this up at the moment and doing the first release of the project so
> if people are interested you have to bear with me..

I believe it uses sapi and I suggest you take a look at the natlink project.  It
exports an interface to Dragon which I think is COM.

here are two different implementations (as far as I know) from original code base.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/natlink/
http://www.westga.edu/~drocco/voice/NatLink/