Adding speech recognition to your WP8 app

ByMarius Bughiu June 23, 2013November 5, 2023

To add speech recognition to our app we will be using the newly released version of the Windows Phone toolkit (release June 2013) – which adds a nice new control called SpeechTextBox (that does exactly what you think). You can get the latest build using NuGet or you can download the source from CodePlex.

Once you’ve referenced the toolkit in you project all you are left to do is add the control:


<toolkit:SpeechTextBox SpeechRecognized="SpeechTextBox_SpeechRecognized" />
Code language: HTML, XML (xml)

Handling the SpeechRecognized event is not necessary. I’ve left it there just to point out that you can choose what you want to do with the speech recognition result. The event comes with a SpeechRecognizedEventArgs parameter which allows you to check the level of confidence for the recognized phrase and also get details about the phrase semantics.

NET 8 – Memory<byte[]> is serialized as base64

ByMarius Bughiu September 6, 2023November 5, 2023

Starting with .NET 8, both Memory<byte[]> and ReadOnlyMemory<byte[]> are serialized as Base64 strings. Let’s look at a quick example: In contrast, Memory<int> and the likes will continue to be serialized as JSON arrays.

C# 12 – Collection expressions

ByMarius Bughiu August 30, 2023November 5, 2023

C# 12 introduces a new simplified syntax for creating arrays. It looks like this: It’s important to note that the array type needs to be specified explicitly, so you cannot use var for declaring the variable. Similarly, if you wanted to create a Span<int>, you can do: Multi-dimensional arrays The advantages of this terse syntax…

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.NET 8 performance: 10x faster GetGenericTypeDefinition

ByMarius Bughiu November 5, 2023November 5, 2023

.NET 8 brings some neat performance for existing APIs that handle type information. One such API that has seen a significant improvement is GetGenericTypeDefinition. In my benchmarks, the .NET 8 implementation is almost 10 times faster compared to the .NET 7 version. You can run this benchmark yourself if you’d like using BenchmarkDotNet: Or if…

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Insolated Storage Settings Helper for Windows Phone

ByMarius Bughiu November 3, 2012November 5, 2023

Decided that I’d share a really simple helper class that I often use in my Windows Phone apps. It’s called IsolatedStorageSettingsHelper and it only has three methods: This is not much, but that’s all I ever needed for my apps. Hope it will be of help. Code below.

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Animating backgrounds with Xamarin Forms

ByMarius Bughiu January 2, 2019November 5, 2023

I’ve started playing with animations in Xamarin Forms only recently and created a cool background animation for one of my apps (Charades for Dota 2) which I thought I would share. So without any extra introduction, this is the final result: The GIF is a bit jittery but that’s just because by PC can’t handle…

C# 11 – Generic attributes

ByMarius Bughiu March 21, 2023November 5, 2023

All right folks, generic attributes are finally a thing in C#! 🥳 You can define one just as you would define any other generic class: And use it like you would use any other attribute: Generic attribute restrictions When applying the attribute, all the generic type arguments must be provided. In other words, the generic…

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