This document discusses speech application programming interfaces (APIs) in Windows Phone 8. It covers three types of speech functionality: voice commands, speech recognition, and text-to-speech. Specific topics covered include an overview of each type, how to create and initialize a voice command definition file to handle voice commands, and demonstrations of basic text-to-speech and selecting a speaking voice. The presentation was given by Eslam M. Ayad from Zagazig University to the Microsoft Student Partners Tech Club.