Voice recognition in Windows

Question

I need to perform actions in my Desktop app when a user says certain things, for example, "Save Document" or "Save As" or "Save changes" will raise its corresponding event.

But I don't want to rely on, or even implement buttons (this is an app for me). So setting the AccessibleName or whatever is not good enough. I need more control.

Is there a way to "listen" for commands in a Windows WPF Desktop app? Then raise an event when that command has been spoken?

Answer 1

I'm looking into adding speech recognition to my fork of Hotspotizer Kinect-based app (http://github.com/birbilis/hotspotizer)

After some search I see you can't markup the actionable UI elements with related speech commands in order to simulate user actions on them as one would expect if Speech input was integrated in WPF. I'm thinking of making a XAML markup extension to do that, unless someone can point to pre-existing work on this that I could reuse...

the following links should be useful:

http://www.wpf-tutorial.com/audio-video/speech-recognition-making-wpf-listen/

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/mahesh/programming-speech-in-wpf-speech-recognition/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rlucero/archive/2012/01/17/speech-recognition-exploring-grammar-based-recognition.aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh855387.aspx (make use of Kinect mic array audio input)

http://kin-educate.blogspot.gr/2012/06/speech-recognition-for-kinect-easy-way.html

https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectQuickstart/Audio-Fundamentals

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh855359.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396#Software_Requirements

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27225

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27226

http://www.redmondpie.com/speech-recognition-in-a-c-wpf-application/

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/55383/A-WPF-Voice-Commanded-Database-Management-Applicat

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/483347/Speech-recognition-speech-to-text-text-to-speech-a

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/nipuntomar/speech-to-text-in-wpf/

http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh361625(v=office.14).aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh323806.aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.recognition.speechrecognitionengine.requestrecognizerupdate.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rlucero/archive/2012/02/03/speech-recognition-using-multiple-grammars-to-improve-recognition.aspx

Answer 2

Since everyone is posting links to Microsoft Speech API, you might still be lost at how to use it.

So here is a tutorial for using Microsoft Speech API

Answer 3

You are looking for the Microsoft Speech API (This is a Get Started with Speech Recognition with a neat code example. Though it is for WinForms it should work for WPF too.). It allows you to create a grammar which can be recognized and input handled.

Answer 4

Have you seen the Microsoft Speech API, which supports speech recognition?