Voice Commands in Windows Phone 8
This article explains how to use voice commands in an application to perform actions, tasks or any initiative work.
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Introduction
Windows phone 8 comes with very great speech functionality which includes 1. voice commands 2. speech recognition 3. text-to-speech, means now developer is able to add above mentioned functionality in his app. Using voice command functionality user is able to make his application responsible to respond voice commands.
With the help of phrase link to the specific application page application can perform specific task or any initiative work. You can simply check voice command functionality in your windows phone 7.5 and above by just holding start key.
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| Basic voice command listening UI | Basic what can i say UI |
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How to achieve
To add voice command functionality in application following steps needs to be followed
- Create voice command file
- Install voice command file in OS
- Write code to handle navigation handling and command execution.
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