Using the Recognizers Collection

Using the Recognizers Collection

Overview of recognizer collection.

If you employ multiple recognizers, you can use the Recognizers collection to list available recognizers and enable a user to select from among them. A Recognizers collection checks for installed recognizers, queries the attributes of the Recognizer objects, and stores the results. Applications can use the Recognizers collection to display a list of available recognizers without loading each recognizer DLL.

Note: The Recognizers collection uses the system registry to check for both Microsoft® recognizers and third-party recognizers.

The following table shows the values of the language identifiers each Microsoft recognizer supports.

Note: There are no language identifiers associated with the Microsoft gesture recognizer.

Recognizer Name	Primary Language Id, Sublanguage Id (in order supported)
Microsoft Gesture Recognizer	None
Microsoft English (US) Handwriting Recognizer	LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_AUS LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_BELIZE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_CAN LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_CARIBBEAN LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_JAMAICA LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_NZ LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_PHILIPPINES LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_SOUTH_AFRICA LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_TRINIDAD LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_ZIMBABWE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
Microsoft English (UK) Handwriting Recognizer	LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_UK LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_EIRE
Microsoft French Handwriting Recognizer	LANG_FRENCH, SUBLANG_FRENCH LANG_FRENCH, SUBLANG_FRENCH_BELGIAN LANG_FRENCH, SUBLANG_FRENCH_CANADIAN LANG_FRENCH, SUBLANG_FRENCH_LUXEMBOURG LANG_FRENCH, SUBLANG_FRENCH_MONACO LANG_FRENCH, SUBLANG_FRENCH_SWISS LANG_FRENCH, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
Microsoft German Handwriting Recognizer	LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_GERMAN LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_GERMAN_AUSTRIAN LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_GERMAN_LIECHTENSTEIN LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_GERMAN_LUXEMBOURG LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_GERMAN_SWISS LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
Microsoft Spanish Handwriting Recognizer	LANG_SPANISH, SUBLANG_SPANISH LANG_SPANISH, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
Microsoft Chinese (Traditional) Handwriting Recognizer	LANG_CHINESE, SUBLANG_CHINESE_TRADITIONAL LANG_CHINESE, SUBLANG_CHINESE_HONGKONG LANG_CHINESE, SUBLANG_CHINESE_MACAU LANG_CHINESE, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
Microsoft Chinese (Simplified) Handwriting Recognizer	LANG_CHINESE, SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED LANG_CHINESE, SUBLANG_CHINESE_SINGAPORE LANG_CHINESE, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
Microsoft Korean Handwriting Recognizer	LANG_KOREAN, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL LANG_KOREAN, SUBLANG_DEFAULT
Microsoft Japanese Handwriting Recognizer	LANG_JAPANESE, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL LANG_JAPANESE, SUBLANG_DEFAULT

For more information about language identifiers, see Table of Language Identifiers .