I am trying to do "streaming" speech recognition in C# from a TCP socket. The problem I am having is that SpeechRecognitionEngine.SetInputToAudioStream() seems to require a Stream of a defined length which can seek. Right now the only way I can think to make this work is to repeatedly run the recognizer on a MemoryStream as more input comes in.

Here's some code to illustrate:

            SpeechRecognitionEngine appRecognizer = new SpeechRecognitionEngine();

            System.Speech.AudioFormat.SpeechAudioFormatInfo formatInfo = new System.Speech.AudioFormat.SpeechAudioFormatInfo(8000, System.Speech.AudioFormat.AudioBitsPerSample.Sixteen, System.Speech.AudioFormat.AudioChannel.Mono);

            NetworkStream stream = new NetworkStream(socket,true);
            appRecognizer.SetInputToAudioStream(stream, formatInfo);
            // At the line above a "NotSupportedException" complaining that "This stream does not support seek operations."

Does anyone know how to get around this? It must support streaming input of some sort, since it works fine with the microphone using SetInputToDefaultAudioDevice().

Thanks, Sean