Official documentation
Speech recognition - UWP applications
Microsoft Learn, n.d.
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- Microsoft's developer guide to speech recognition in Universal Windows Platform apps, covering the SpeechRecognizer class, constraints and grammars.
- How much weight it carries
- Official Microsoft developer documentation. It describes the UWP API, which Microsoft's own pages present as a supported option, and says which grammars run on the device.
Facts taken from this source
- Microsoft's UWP speech guide says predefined dictation and web-search grammars are online, not on the device.
“they are online (not on the device), performance might not be as fast as with a custom grammar installed on the device” (Section on predefined grammars)