Speech Application Programming Interface

programming, standard (SAPI) Microsoft's standard API

for speech synthesis and speech recognition in Windows 95.

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.

(1996-03-04)