---
title: Introduction to Speech
framework: cocoa
role: article
path: apple-archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Speech
---

# Introduction to Speech

Explains Cocoa

## Organization of This Document

Speech in Cocoa consists of two general procedures:

- [Synthesizing Speech](Articles/SynthesizeSpeech.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20002080-BABEDGID) describes how to use an NSSpeechSynthesizer object to speak a string of text to users in a specific voice. - [Recognizing Speech](Articles/RecognizeSpeech.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20002081-BCIHEBFH) describes how to use an NSSpeechRecognizer object to apprehend spoken commands which your application can then act upon.

[Next](Articles/SynthesizeSpeech.html)

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