C# Speech Recognition - Is this what the user said?

Question

I have need to write an application which uses a speech recognition engine -- either the built in vista one, or a third party one -- that can display a word or phrase, and r

Answer 1

If the engine is what you're asking about then I've found (beware, I'm just listing, I haven't tried any of them):

Lumenvox engine

you also have the SAPI SDK from Microsoft itself, I've only tried it for text to speech but according to its definition:

The SDK also includes freely distributable text-to-speech (TTS) engines (in U.S. English and Simplified Chinese) and speech recognition (SR) engines (in U.S. English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese).