What is the difference between System.Speech.Recognition and Microsoft.Speech.Recognition?

Question

There are two similar namespaces and assemblies for speech recognition in .NET. I’m trying to understand the differences and when it is appropriate to use one or the other.<

Answer 1

Seems Microsoft wrote an article that clears things up regarding the differences between Microsoft Speech Platform and Windows SAPI - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj127858.aspx. A difference I found myself while converting Speech recognition code for Kinect from Microsoft.Speech to System.Speech (see http://github.com/birbilis/Hotspotizer) was that the former supports SGRS grammars with tag-format=semantics/1.0-literals, while the latter doesn't and you have to convert to semantics/1.0 by changing x to out="x"; at tags