[python-nl] Dragonfly, is SDK 5.1 good enough ?

[Christo Butcher]

On 3/5/09, Christo Butcher <christo at twizzy.biz> wrote:

>> SAPI 5.1 zou erg aantrekkelijk zijn, omdat deze vrij
>> verkrijgbaar is !
>
> Actually, SAPI 5.1 is sufficient.  One of my test machines
> runs Windows XP and SAPI 5.1, and I run (and use)
> Dragonfly-based voice-commands on it.  But, and here is
> the problem, for this to work correctly I have to install
> a speech SDK which *used to be* available for free from
> Microsoft.  The filename was SpeechSDK51.exe.  The
> download page from Microsoft has disappeared, and I'm not
> sure why.  Occasionally I see people writing that this SDK
> is now part of the complete Windows SDK, or something like
> that.  I haven't figured this out yet, and don't know
> right now what you should do to get that speech SDK
> installed.
>
> (If you really want to try this out, I have that original
> file lying around.  I could send it to anybody interested.
> But in the long run, it would of course be nice to know
> what Microsoft is up to.)

Good news for people with Windows XP: Microsoft has made the speech
SDK I referred to above available once again.  It can be downloaded
here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5e86ec97-40a7-453f-b0ee-6583171b4530

Stef, if you try this please let me know how it works out.  Thanks,

-- Christo.