Speech Application Programming Interface


Speech Application Programming Interface

(programming, standard)(SAPI) Microsoft's standard APIfor speech synthesis and speech recognition in Windows 95.The idea is to let developers try out and use variouslow-level speech software from any number of verndors, whileretaining the same API.

Mike Rozak is the lead of the SAPI project at Microsoft.Numerous major speech vendors have announced SAPI-supportplans. SRAPI, the competing speech recognition API byLotus/WordPerfect, is fast becoming obsolete.