Microsoft has a speech API but I don't know much about it. Larry, it seems that your problem should be addressed at the front-end. Rather than try to translate a WAV file, perhaps you need to put ViaVoice or some other lib on the front-end and store the translation.

>These are all good ideas and we'll definitely look into them, but I was kind of hoping for a solution that did not involve playing the .wav file into a microphone.
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>Also these .wav files are created by an Order Entry system that gets calls from all over the country, from people with all kinds of accents (shoot, I can hardly understand some of them myself!) Anyway, any other ideas would be greatly appreciated as well.
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>Think of an image file converter, like GIF to BMP...
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>Thanks again
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>>>I know... it's impossible, right?
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>>>I just thought I'd ask if anyone has any idea how to capture a .wav file into a text doc? You know, kind of like a "robot" transcriber... geez, it sounds crazy just saying it, but who knows :)
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>>>Hmmm I bet there would be a HUGE market for such a tool, don't you think?
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>>>TIA
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>>There are several products that do this, the most common of which may be Dragon Naturally Speaking.