Speech, voice, and conversation in Windows 11 and Windows 10
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Speech can be an effective, natural, and enjoyable way for people to interact with your Windows applications, complementing, or even replacing, traditional interaction experiences based on mouse, keyboard, touch, controller, or gestures.
Speech-based features such as speech recognition, dictation, speech synthesis (also known as text-to-speech or TTS), and conversational voice assistants (such as Cortana or Alexa) can provide accessible and inclusive user experiences that enable people to use your applications when other input devices might not suffice.
This page provides information on how the various Windows development frameworks provide speech recognition, speech synthesis, and conversation support for developers building Windows applications.
Platform-specific documentation
Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
Build speech-enabled apps on the modern platform for Windows 10 (and later) applications and games, on any Windows device (including PCs, phones, Xbox, HoloLens, and more), and publish them to the Microsoft Store.
Develop speech-enabled applications for Windows desktop and Windows Server using the tools, information, and sample engines and applications provided here.
These samples demonstrate the API usage patterns for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) in the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 10 and later.
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