I want to make a computer program on windows that uses data from my Kinect. What languages could I use and what software would help me in the process?
EDIT: Okay so I found the Kinect SDK from Windows. Anything other downloads that would help that I should know about?
Assuming you want to use the official SDK instead of the OpenNI drivers, your programming language choices are basically C# or C++. You can download Visual Studio C# or C++ Express versions for free here to use as your IDE. To use the speech recognition, you’ll need to download the following:
Honestly, just check out the Kinect SDK documentation. There’s a ton of awesome information, including everything in this post.