SpeechRecoContext EventInterests Property (SAPI 5.4)

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08/26/2009

Microsoft Speech API 5.4

EventInterests Property

The EventInterests property specifies the types of events accepted by the SpeechRecoContext object.

An event interest is a filtering mechanism for each recognition context. By setting EventInterests, the recognition context allows or denies speech recognition engine events to reach the application. All, none or selected types of events my be filtered. By default, speech recognition allows all events except SREAudioLevel (a change in audio level).

Syntax

Set:	SpeechRecoContext.EventInterests = SpeechRecoEvents
Get:	SpeechRecoEvents = SpeechRecoContext.EventInterests

Parts

SpeechRecoContext
The owning object.
SpeechRecoEvents
Set: One or more SpeechRecoEvents constants which set the property.
Get: A SpeechRecoEvents variable which gets the value of the property.

Remarks

href="VB_Enum_SpeechRecoEvents.htm">SpeechRecoEvents enumeration list. Each type of event is represented by its own enumerated value. The default value is 327,679 (all SpeechRecoEvents values except SREAudioLevel). The value passed in to EventInterests is the total of each of the events required for the application. For example:

  
SRESoundStart + SRERecognition

could be passed as the value. Alternatively the same two interests could be passed as the single value of 18; SRESoundStart (value 2) plus SRERecognition (value 16). Conversely, if the application retrieved the current event setting and the value was 1064, it indicates that three events are active. Only SREPhraseStart (value 8), SREHypothesis (value 32), and SREInterference (value 1024) add up to that 1064 value.

See SpVoice.EventInterests for additional details. SpVoice.EventInterests is a similar function but affects text-to-speech events.

Example

The following Visual Basic form code demonstrates reading and setting the event interest. To run this code, paste it into the Declarations section of a form that contains no controls.

  
Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()

    Dim EvtInterests As SpeechRecoEvents
    Dim RecoContext As SpInProcRecoContext
    Dim Recognizer As SpInprocRecognizer

    On Error GoTo EH

    Set Recognizer = New SpInprocRecognizer
    Set RecoContext = Recognizer.CreateRecoContext

    ' Read default value of EventInterests:
    EvtInterests = RecoContext.EventInterests
    MsgBox "Default: " & EvtInterests, vbInformation

    ' Set EventInterests to combination of three values:
    RecoContext.EventInterests = SRESoundStart + SREBookmark + SREFalseRecognition
    EvtInterests = RecoContext.EventInterests
    MsgBox EvtInterests, vbInformation
    End

EH:
    If Err.Number Then ShowErrMsg
End Sub

Private Sub ShowErrMsg()

    ' Declare identifiers:
    Dim T As String

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

End Sub

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