Using Speech Recognition and Text to Speech

This tutorial will show you how to create a program that can understand what you say and reply to what you say! You will need to download the speech recognition control from http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/agent2/actcnc.exe if you have not already downloaded it.

Firstly add a new Standard EXE project. Then change the projects name to VoiceRecognition. Change the forms name to frmVoice. Add the Direct Speech Recognition and the Direct Text-To-Speech control to the form by right clicking on the toolbox and then selecting components. Click on the Microsoft Direct Speech Recognition and Microsoft Direct Text-To-Speech item and then click OK.

   Draw the Speech Recognition and Text-To-Speech control on the form and set the Speech Recognition controls name property to vcrVoice, the Text-To-Speech controls name property to spkSpeak and both their visible properties to false.