With Vista, speech recognition goes mainstream. Microsoft's Managed Speech API takes the latest in powerful recognition technologies and joins it with the simplicity of .NET programming to make it easy to add speech capabilities to any application. In this presentation, we'll look at an example of MSAPI at work: Dee Jay, a voice interface to Windows Media Player. We'll see how to convert text to speech, as well as how to build and respond to complex command grammars. And we'll laugh at Martin's musical tastes.

The other one is a little more esoteric: using MSAPI to control Visual Studio 2005. They're kinda similar, but the VS 2005 one assumes we can cover speech basics in the first five minutes, and then get into particular design problems with speech. The Dee Jay talk is more intro. Over time, the two talks are blending.