Microsoft Voice Access engine implementation for Dragonfly

[drmfinlay]

Microsoft announced late last year that Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) is now deprecated in favour of Voice Access, a new feature of Windows 11. WSR may be removed in a future build or release of Windows. It would be nice if Dragonfly could use Voice Access through an API. I'll do some testing to see how feasible this is.

[drmfinlay]

Either way, I think it would be good to have an engine back-end that uses the newer .NET speech API. This one.

[drmfinlay]

Microsoft have said that WSR will be removed from Windows 11 in an update in September, 2024. I presume that means that the older API we use -- SAPI 5, deprecated for many years now -- will also finally be removed. I suppose we'll find out in September.