ISpeechPhraseProperty Confidence Property (SAPI 5.4)

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08/26/2009

Microsoft Speech API 5.4

Confidence Property

The Confidence property returns the confidence value for this semantic property computed by SAPI or the speech recognition engine.

It is an enumerated value of type SpeechEngineConfidence. See Confidence Scoring and Rejection in SAPI Speech Recognition Engine Guide for additional details.

Syntax

Set:	(This property is read-only)
Get:	SpeechEngineConfidence = ISpeechPhraseProperty.Confidence

Parts

ISpeechPhraseProperty
The owning object.
SpeechEngineConfidence
Set: (This property is read-only)
Get: A SpeechEngineConfidence variable that gets the property.

Remarks

It is possible to have different confidences for each rule name. This would be the result of pronunciation, background noise, or accent.

Example

The following code demonstrates getting the Confidence property from a command and control recognition. One label displays the recognized text and the other label displays the rule name activated as well as the confidence associated with that recognition.

To run this code, create a form with the following controls:

Two labels called Label1 and Label2

Paste this code into the Declarations section of the form.

The Form_Load procedure creates and activates a command and control grammar. The grammar file sol.xml is the solitaire grammar with the SDK. The path listed is for a standard SDK install and may be changed as needed.

If "play the red five" has been recognized, the application displays the recognized text in Label1. Label2 displays the rule name and the confidence for that recognition. In this case, the rules would be "color" and "rank" along with their confidence values.

  
Option Explicit
Public WithEvents RC As SpSharedRecoContext
Public myGrammar As ISpeechRecoGrammar

Private Sub Form_Load()
    On Error GoTo EH

    Set RC = New SpSharedRecoContext

    Set myGrammar = RC.CreateGrammar
    myGrammar.CmdLoadFromFile "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Speech SDK 5.4\Samples\Common\sol.xml", SLODynamic
    myGrammar.CmdSetRuleIdState 0, SGDSActive

EH:
    If Err.Number Then ShowErrMsg
End Sub

Private Sub RC_FalseRecognition _
   (ByVal StreamNumber As Long, _
    ByVal StreamPosition As Variant, _
    ByVal Result As SpeechLib.ISpeechRecoResult)

    Beep
    Label1.Caption = "(no recognition)"
    Label2.Caption = ""

End Sub

Private Sub RC_Recognition _
   (ByVal StreamNumber As Long, _
    ByVal StreamPosition As Variant, _
    ByVal RecognitionType As SpeechLib.SpeechRecognitionType, _
    ByVal Result As SpeechLib.ISpeechRecoResult)

    Dim i As Long

    On Error GoTo EH

    Label1.Caption = Result.PhraseInfo.GetText & vbCrLf

    Label2.Caption = "Rule Properties Found : " & Result.PhraseInfo.Properties.Count & vbCrLf
    For i = 0 To Result.PhraseInfo.Properties.Count - 1
        Label2.Caption = Label2.Caption & Result.PhraseInfo.Properties.Item(i).Name
        Label2.Caption = Label2.Caption & " Confidence : " & Result.PhraseInfo.Properties.Item(i).Confidence & vbCrLf
    Next

EH:
    If Err.Number Then ShowErrMsg
End Sub

Private Sub ShowErrMsg()

    ' Declare identifiers:
    Const NL = vbNewLine
    Dim T As String

    T = "Desc: " & Err.Description & NL
    T = T & "Err #: " & Err.Number
    MsgBox T, vbExclamation, "Run-Time Error"
    End

End Sub

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