ASAPI: Advanced Speech API (AT&T)

Description: The AT&T ASAPI Specification is a open, cross-platform, easy-to-use speech API that can support speech engines from AT&T and other vendors. ASAPI does not replace the Microsoft Speech API, but it provides extensions and enhancements to the Microsoft SAPI Specification including support for SAPI-compatible applications.
The ASAPI Specification defines two types of interfaces. The "ASAPI Extensions" interface which provides extensions to the MS-SAPI interface as well as C++ class encapsulation of SAPI functionality. The "Visual ASAPI" interface provides an even higher-level abstraction of SAPI/ASAPI low-level functionality such that application developers can quickly and easily embed speech technology into existing or new applications. Special Purpose Recognizers are examples of Visual ASAPI interfaces which integrate lower-level functionality that an application developer can access via a simple interface.
More information: Contact Jose Garcia at AT&T on (908) 957-5457 or by email: jrg@att.com. For more information on the WATSON Speech Engine which supports ASAPI and news about ASAPI please visit the AT&T Advanced Speech Products Group home page or call 1-800-5-WATSON.