SpeechRecognizer Recognizer Property (SAPI 5.3)

Microsoft Speech API 5.3

Interface: ISpeechRecognizer

Recognizer Property

The Recognizer property specifies characteristics about the active recognizer.

Recognizers and the attributes associated with them are stored in the speech configuration database as a series of tokens, with each token representing one attribute. Recognizer retrieves an object (SpObjectToken) which is capable of accessing the attributes for the recognizer. Additional or more detailed information about the tokens is available in methods associated with SpObjectToken.

See Object Tokens and Registry Settings White Paper for a list of SAPI 5-defined engine attributes.

Syntax

Set:	SpeechRecognizer.Recognizer = SpObjectToken
Get:	SpObjectToken = SpeechRecognizer.Recognizer

Parts

• SpeechRecognizer
  The owning object.
• SpObjectToken
  Set: An SpObjectToken variable that sets the property.
  Get: An SpObjectToken variable that gets the property.

Example

This code example demonstrates the Recognizer property. After creating an instance for a recognizer, the Recognizer property can retrieve attribute information about the active recognizer. The engine ID is displayed. Also two attributes are attempted to be displayed. The first is "VendorPreferred", an attribute that exists for the SAPI 5 SR engine. The other is "MyEngineAttribute", which should not be present. Tokens not found will cause a run-time error and as a result, require error handling code.

To run this code, create a form with no controls. Paste this code into the Declarations section of the form.

  
Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
    On Error GoTo EH

    Const NL = vbNewLine
    Dim objectToken As SpObjectToken
    Dim RC As SpSharedRecoContext
    Dim T As String
    Dim TokenName As String
    Dim Value As String

    Set RC = New SpSharedRecoContext
    Set objectToken = RC.Recognizer.Recognizer

    T = "Id: " & RC.Recognizer.Recognizer.Id & NL
    TokenName = "VendorPreferred"
    Value = objectToken.GetAttribute(TokenName)

    If Len(Value) = 0 Then
        T = T & TokenName & " attribute's value: Zero-length string" & NL
    End If

    TokenName = "MyEngineAttribute"
    On Error Resume Next
    T = TokenName & " : " & objectToken.GetAttribute(TokenName)

    If Err.Number Then
        Err.Clear
        T = T & "There is no attribute named 'MyEngineAttribute'."
    End If

    MsgBox T, vbInformation

EH:
    If Err.Number Then ShowErrMsg
End Sub

Private Sub ShowErrMsg()

    ' Declare identifiers:
    Dim T As String

    T = "Desc: " & Err.Description & vbNewLine
    T = T & "Err #: " & Err.Number
    MsgBox T, vbExclamation, "Run-Time Error"
    End

End Sub