There’s an interesting post on the WPFblog about the progress that’s been made with the speech API since the beta versions. Lee’s put together a (rather smart looking) app that Vista users can install via ClickOnce to demonstrate its capabilities.

Well worth checking out if you’ve got a few moments and a Vista machine. I’m not sure PC speech is going to take over the world just yet (remember the last time this was a hot topic in the mid 90’s?) but for specialist fields like call-centre switchboards, messaging services and medical prosthetics these APIs have got to be good news.

I won’t include a screenshot, as showing you an image of what a speech synthesizer looks like just seems daft!