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Leif Larsen
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Leif Larsen

Leif Larsen is a software engineer based in Norway. After earning a degree in computer engineering, he went on to work with the design and configuration of industrial control systems, for the most part, in the oil and gas industry. Over the last few years, he has worked as a developer, developing and maintaining geographical information systems, working with .NET technology. Today, he is working with a start-up, developing a brand new SaaS product. In his spare time, he develops mobile apps and explores new technologies to keep up with the high-paced tech world. You can find out more about him by checking out his blog, "Leif Larsen", and following him on Twitter (@leif_larsen) and LinkedIn (lhlarsen).
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Converting text to audio and vice versa


In Chapter 1, Getting Started with Microsoft Cognitive Services, we utilized a part of the Bing Speech API. We gave the example application the ability to speak sentences to us. We will use the code created in that example now, but we will dive a bit deeper into the details.

We will also go through the other feature of Bing Speech API, converting spoken audio to text. The idea is that we can speak to the Smart-House application, which will recognize what we are saying. Using the textual output, it will use LUIS to get the intent of our sentence. In case LUIS needs more information, the application will politely ask us with audio.

To get started, we want to modify the build definition of the Smart-House application. We need to specify whether we are running it on a 32-bit or a 64-bit OS. To utilize speech-to-text conversion, we want to install the Bing Speech NuGet client package. Search for Microsoft.ProjectOxford.SpeechRecognition, and install either...

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Published in: Mar 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781786467843

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Leif Larsen

Leif Larsen is a software engineer based in Norway. After earning a degree in computer engineering, he went on to work with the design and configuration of industrial control systems, for the most part, in the oil and gas industry. Over the last few years, he has worked as a developer, developing and maintaining geographical information systems, working with .NET technology. Today, he is working with a start-up, developing a brand new SaaS product. In his spare time, he develops mobile apps and explores new technologies to keep up with the high-paced tech world. You can find out more about him by checking out his blog, "Leif Larsen", and following him on Twitter (@leif_larsen) and LinkedIn (lhlarsen).
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