Massey Speech Project for Vista or Windows 7 x86
Key words: Speech synthesis, speech recognition, smart house, windows 7,vista.
This software is for entertainment or educational purposes - not for sale or commercial purposes. This software is given "as is" and without any warranty, express or implied, including but not limited to non-infringement of third party rights, performance or merchantability. This program is given free without any express or implied warranties whatsoever. Because of the diversity of conditions and hardware under which this program may be used, no warranty of fitness for a particular purpose is offered. The user is advised to test the program thoroughly before relying on it. The user must assume the entire risk of using the program. The author will assume no liability for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages resulting from the use of this software, including loss or interruption of business, accidental loss of data, or damage to computer equipment, or for any claim by a third party.
Windows 7 and Vista uses SAPI5.3 which means the older spvoice speech synthesis are out (they still work for synthesis though). Under no circumstances will this program work in windows XP. Only Vista or x86 Windows7. The new DLLS used are Imports System.Speech.Recognition Imports System.Speech.Recognition.SrgsGrammar Imports System.IO Imports System.Speech.Synthesis

Some  basic help to get the program running.

1.Make sure that your speech recognition language is set to US English. The program will not run on UK English or any other language at present.

It won’t be too difficult to change this however.

2.You may have to disable the UAC – User activated control to get the program to work for some PCs (especially in Windows 7).

3. You can download the source and run the .exe file in the bin/debug directory and this always works if you have trouble! Good luck and I would like to know how you get on with the program.