Speech Recognition; Audio Streaming; Custom Button

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Hi

1. On MSDN you can find SAPI 5.2 for Windows CE.NET but nowhere can it be
found in the download section, is it a typo or it's real? In fact, is there
any SAPI for pocket pc?

2. To stream audio on pocket pc, is it necessary to use windows media
player SDK?

3. Is there a way to design a custom button that looks like the MSN
Messenger sign-in?


TIA
 
1. On MSDN you can find SAPI 5.2 for Windows CE.NET but nowhere can it
be
found in the download section, is it a typo or it's real? In fact, is there
any SAPI for pocket pc?
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Are you looking for TTS or ASR? Both?

It depends on whether the OEM packages it with their deployment. My
research led us to use ScanSoft's ASR-3200 product (no SAPI support). For
simple grammars it is excellent. After posting questions to the speech tech
group (microsoft.public.speech_tech), I didn't get much satisfaction
regarding recommended approaches for WinCE.

Prior to this we participated in the Microsoft Speech Server Beta (release
due in April?) which has a PIE add-in that enables server based ASR. To be
honest, I couldn't get this working to save my life. It took me HOURS to
even find how to install it. Someone else on this group may have been able
to get it installed and working, however.

After a couple of days of fighting with it we bailed on that approach.
2. To stream audio on pocket pc, is it necessary to use windows media
player SDK?
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I am not entirely sure what you are looking to do, but I would say "no". By
starting with the OpenNETCF audio library, we were able to implement a
rudimentary "walkie-talkie" functionality. We then used it with a desktop
sapi engine to do ASR as well.
3. Is there a way to design a custom button that looks like the MSN
Messenger sign-in?
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Feelite said:
Hi

1. On MSDN you can find SAPI 5.2 for Windows CE.NET but nowhere can it be
found in the download section, is it a typo or it's real? In fact, is there
any SAPI for pocket pc?
Click to expand...

See Kevins responses on third-party speech tools. SAPI can be built into a
CE.NET device when building the platform, however for Pocket PC you'll need
a solution which can be applied in ram such as Scansofts product.
2. To stream audio on pocket pc, is it necessary to use windows media
player SDK?
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Windows Media ActiveX control can be used to display streaming media. For
..NETCF you'll need to create a wrapper or use Odyssey CFCOM as the .NETCF v1
has no COM interop support (though its coming in v2.0). I'm not aware of any
other video controls with an SDK you can use directly from .NETCF at this
time. A very basic solution is to start the Windows Media Player application
with a path or filename to play.
3. Is there a way to design a custom button that looks like the MSN
Messenger sign-in?
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Take a look at the ButtonEx control in the Smart Device Framework
(www.opennetcf.org/smartdeviceframework.asp) which allows you to use an
image for the button display.

Peter
 
sounds interesting but perhaps too much overhead for our audio-only app.

thanks all the same.

feelite
 
Thanks a lot. this has been much more helpful that the chat i attended last
night.


feelite
 
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