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Will Windows Speech Recognition deprecation affect DRE?

You may see a popup in Windows like this:

Windows speech recognition is deprecated and is no longer being developed.
This feature is being replaced with voice access.

 

So is DRE affected by this switch from Windows Speech Recognition to Voice Access?

Short answer is no.

Only the Windows Speech Recognition application will be replaced by Voice Access. The internal Speech Recognition APIs that DRE utilizes for its Classic Recognizer will remain.

DRE still supports Classic, but Windows runtime may be missing/degraded on newer Win11; use Microsoft runtime or Neural/Hybrid.

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