Microsoft - Now developers can add speech recognition to windows 8 apps!

Bing is not only a search engine but it has more to it. Bing is also a development platform which allows controls, back end services and development kits to the developers. What was lacking in Bing developer toolbox was a speech recognition control. The speech recognition control was a much awaited and belatedly introduced feature. This will now be a boon to the developers because they can now include speech recognition as one of their inputs alongside other forms in their Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT apps.

Additionally, we can expect an upgrade for Optical Character Recognition Control and Bing Translator Control to be supportive with Windows 8.1. Already there is speech recognition inside the Windows phone where the user presses the microphone button and gives speech input that appears as a text on top part of the device. This can be used for navigation and controls inside the phone. However, with the speech recognition been added to the Bing developer toolbox developers can now add speech recognition input to their apps for Windows 8, 8.1 and RT.

Microsoft always encourages its windows phone 8 developers in licensing their services such as mapping, speech, translation, APIs. Even the Bing search engine by itself is powered by these services that are listed above.

With this new and suave update, Microsoft yet again proves to its users, rivals and developers that Windows doesn't have just static API but it has constant, up to date and elegant updates. These updates are not only up to date but are very useful and efficient. The recent speech recognition addition to the Bing developer toolbox albeit being belatedly released is very essential as this will create a new change over in the way Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows 8.1 apps are being designed, developed, downloaded and used.