Microsoft Speech Recognition

Platform: Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0
Description: A free demonstration of research technology that enables a computer to transcribe what you speak into Windows applications such as email and word-processors. Features of the demo software include:
- 60,000 word vocabulary with the ability to add new words
- High recognition accuracy
- Works with any Windows 5application
- "Dictation Pad" provides enhanced dictation features
- "IntelliSense" converts spoken numbers and times automatically
- Compatible with the Microsoft Speech API
Requirements: Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, Pentium 90 or better (RISC builds are available), 16 megabytes of RAM on Windows 95, Sound card with 16 kHz 16 bit input signals, High quality close-talk microphone, Speakers.
Availability: Free demo software is available at: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/srg/install.htm
More information: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/srg/

Platform: Windows 95
Description: Provides command and control speech recognition using SAPI (the Microsoft Speech API) and "Whisper", Microsoft's speech recognition technology. Features include:
- Speaker independent, continuous, sub-word modeling, context free grammars
- Has its own letter-to-sound rules means it can recognize any words in a grammar.
- North American English
- PC microphone and telephone speech recognition with high performance
- Word spotting option
- Results objects containing top-N choices, segmentation, and confidence
- Written to SAPI, the Microsoft Speech API.
Requirements: Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, Pentium 60 or better. (RISC builds are available), 1.5 megabyte working set, 16 kHz or 8 kHz input signals, 6 megabytes on disk, Requires Microsoft Speech SDK to use.
Availability: Free demo software is available at: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/srg/install.htm
More information: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/srg/