Speech Recognition for Chinese and Japanese
Using a file from Microsoft’s Speech SDK, we can install both Japanese and Chinese speech recognition engines into Windows. This serves as a follow up to our previous post on getting speech recognition for free in Windows XP. Head over to the Microsoft Speech SDK download page and download the SpeechSDK51LangPack.exe.
It’s a self extracting archive, so extract it to a folder and run setup.exe. You can choose the speech recognition engine you want by going to Custom install, or you can install both using Complete install.
Usage
Once it’s installed, you’re going to need to switch speech engines (otherwise your output will be in English, and that’s not what we want).
Head to the Control Panel and open Speech, then change the language to whichever engine you want (I don’t have any knowledge of Chinese whatsoever, so I didn’t install it).
On your language bar, switch to the respective language (Japanese over here) and turn on the Microphone option. It’s a bit rusty (or I speak really bad Japanese) but it works. Hope this comes in handy.
I'm Jason, the main author of Third Error, and many of the topics I'll focus on concern Windows (and applicable software), web applications, web design, and a bit of *nix (Ubuntu mainly). My computer runs Windows XP, with virtualized Ubuntu and OS X handy.