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.
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.
Hi there,
Do you also have text to speech solution for Japanese and Chinese?
Cheers.
Per