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Please see Azure Cognitive Services for Speech documentation for the latest supported speech solutions.

GrammarBuilder.Append Method (GrammarBuilder)

Appends a grammar element to the current sequence of grammar elements.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Speech.Recognition
Assembly:  Microsoft.Speech (in Microsoft.Speech.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Sub Append ( _
    builder As GrammarBuilder _
)
'Usage
Dim instance As GrammarBuilder
Dim builder As GrammarBuilder

instance.Append(builder)
public void Append(
    GrammarBuilder builder
)

Parameters

Remarks

builder is added to the end of the current sequence of grammar elements.

Important

When you append GrammarBuilder objects that contain SemanticResultValue or SemanticResultKey instances to a GrammarBuilder instance, make sure you avoid creating duplicate semantic elements with the same key name or multiple semantic elements that could repeatedly modify the Value property of a SemanticValue object. The speech recognizer can throw an exception if it encounters these circumstances. For more information about building a speech recognition grammar that contains semantic information, see Add Semantics to a GrammarBuilder Grammar (Microsoft.Speech).

Examples

The following example creates a speech recognition grammar for phrases such as "Call James at work" and "Call Anne on her cell phone", where the word "phone" is optional. GrammarBuilder and Choices objects are used to construct the grammar. The example highlights the use of the Append method.

 
public static Grammar CreatePhonePhrase()
{
  // Create alternatives for person names, locations, devices, and pronouns.
  Choices personChoice = new Choices(new string[] {"Anne", "James", "Mary", "Sam"});
  Choices locationChoice = new Choices(new string[] {"home", "work"});
  Choices deviceChoice = new Choices(new string[] {"home", "work", "cell"});
  Choices pronounChoice = new Choices(new string[] {"his", "her"});

  // Create a phrase for the receiving device, which optionally contains the word "phone".
  GrammarBuilder devicePhrase = new GrammarBuilder(pronounChoice);
  devicePhrase.Append(deviceChoice);
  devicePhrase.Append("phone", 0, 1);

  // Create alternatives for phrases specifying a device or a location.
  GrammarBuilder atLocation = new GrammarBuilder("at");
  atLocation.Append(locationChoice);

  GrammarBuilder onDevice = new GrammarBuilder("on");
  onDevice.Append(devicePhrase);

  Choices howChoice = new Choices(new GrammarBuilder[] {atLocation, onDevice});

  // Build the final phrase.
  GrammarBuilder callWho = new GrammarBuilder("Call");
  callWho.Append(personChoice);
  callWho.Append(howChoice);

  // Create the Grammar object.
  Grammar callGrammar = new Grammar(callWho);
  callGrammar.Name = "Call Grammar";

  return callGrammar;
}

See Also

Reference

GrammarBuilder Class

GrammarBuilder Members

Append Overload

Microsoft.Speech.Recognition Namespace