As developers, we adapt as technologies move from the realm of Science Fiction into readily available SDKs. In the past 5 years, devices have become more personal and demanding of new forms of interaction. In Windows 10, speech is front-and-center with the Cortana personal assistant, and the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) gives us several ways to plug into that "Hey, Cortana" experience. But there's much more that we can do when working with speech from a UWP app and that's true whether working locally on the device or remotely via the cloud. In this 3-part series, we will dig in to some of those speech capabilities and show that speech can be both a powerful and a relatively easy addition to an app.