The idea is to let developers try out and use various
low-level speech software from any number of verndors, while
retaining the same API.
Mike Rozak is the lead of the SAPI project at Microsoft.
Numerous major speech vendors have announced SAPI-support
plans.
SRAPI, the competing speech recognition API by
Lotus/WordPerfect, is fast becoming obsolete.
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