These projects can be used to build SRILM using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 IDE. For instructions, see SRILM/doc/README.windows-msvc-visual-studio. If you want to compile using a different version of MSVC, I suggest creating a new subdirectory of SRILM/visual_studio, e.g., "SRILM/visual_studio/vs2010", and copying the contents of the "vs2005" directory into your new directory. Then use MSVC to update your projects. If you need to downgrade to MSVC 2003, it is possible to do this by manually editing the project files. I would like to thank Keith Vertanen (http://www.keithv.com) for contributing the original versions of these Microsoft Visual Studio projects to SRILM. Victor Abrash victor@speech.sri.com