ACTIVE Forums For Speech, Or Has It Died?
Aug 3, 2009
My interest in Vista Speech is limited to finding out why I am having trouble getting _consistent_ speed/accuracy out of it. By accuracy I mean at least 98%, preferably 99%. By speed I mean at least 80 wpm. (plain everyday words, not technical words)
I normally speak at 160 wpm, so if I speak for two minutes, 320 words get changed to text. Of the 320 words, I expect 3 words to need correction, which takes another two minutes for me to do. 320 / 4 = 80 wpm on average...........
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Oct 3, 2009
How fast can a modern speech recognition app' translate speech into text with no mistakes?In my case, 384 wpm, because that is the very fastest that I can speak, and still have another human understand what I am saying. Neither my hardware nor my software limited me, only the rate at which I talked limited me. My computer is a run of the mill model that has a 2.4 GHz Intel core 2 duo CPU. Ram is 4 GB. OS is Vista Ultimate, with all the patches............................
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Jun 22, 2009
I'm on my pc playing games and being bored everything fine and whatever. Got tired so I shut my pc off and then went to bed, ect. Got up in the morning turned my pc on and said it couldnt find a bootable disk or w/e it says when it finds no OS. (what ever happened also killed my Win7x64 on my other HDD)
I have 2 Seagate 500GB HDD each with a 32MB Cache. So what I did was formatted the win7 hdd and instead of x64 went x32 and got win7 back on. Now I was thinking that the HDD was completely dead and couldnt have anything done with it until today a friend of mine told me he had something similar happen and then his dad put some program on his computer and it fixed everything. Now if this is the case for me then I really would love to get this sorted out because this HDD has all my data from work on different things over the last 2 years and none of it is backed up.
Oh and the HDD that died has windows Vista Basicx32 on it. So basically I need to know if there is a possiblity that my HDD isn't dead and I can revive it and still use it. And if I can then how would I go about doing this?
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May 18, 2010
I have a Vista home system. I recently did a windows registry back up on my PC (Cleanmypc) i have about 20 gigs of zipped files in the back up folder. Since then my hard drive died. I have two questions.
1. What is actually backed up in this system ?
2. Can i transfer the data (Zipped files) to a new hard drive without any issue using the cleanmypc software.
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Jan 17, 2009
in my blundering efforts, to resize EVERYTHING in these forums. Everything else is fine, but all the images are big and blurring (see pic) and I cant fix it. I'm used to really high res and seeing small crisp images, but I feel like im in 800x600 in here!
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Apr 24, 2009
i'm having a hard time finding the counterpart of this forum (xp forums). can anyone kindly pass the link of xp forums?
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Sep 14, 2009
I assume this Newsgroup mirrors one of the MS support forums? If so,
can anyone point me to the relevant one? There doesn't seem to be a
1-1 correspondence between the newsgroup hirarchy and hte forums I can
see at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/forums/default.mspx
.
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May 23, 2008
I will be doing a few upgrade on the forums today....expect things to get funky. If you find any errors, please report them here so I can get them fixed.
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Aug 5, 2008
Just dropping by to check out the site. Looks awesome so far with some intense skills. I'm Beau and I live in Louisville, KY. Pretty new to having a computer that is decently fast. Looking forward to learning a lot more.
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Apr 26, 2008
Could one of the MVPs send the server and groupnames for the defender application.
I would really like to install my own anti-spyware application to replace defender, but security center does not have the option available to switch monitoring to the
other application, Ad-aware pro, at this time.
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Feb 1, 2008
It would be easier for users of Vista to refer to discussions on specific topics if all the Forums are listed as Microdsoft Newsgroups. Taking into account the fact that there are already some Newsgroups for Vista, it becomes a duplicate effort to collate all the comments on a given Vista topic from the Forums and the newsgroups. The Forums also make life miserable by giving the time of posting a message as "so many hours or days or weeks in history". The Newsgroup method of giving the exact date and time when the message was posted makes it easy to search for a message. I also find that the Search function works far more efficiently in Newsgroups as compared with the Forums. The forum search draws a blank most of the times, whereas Newsgroup Search is successful most of the times. So why not add all the forums to the Newsgroups with the standard prefix of microsoft.vista? Besides, Outlook Express is far better organized for viewing discussions as conversations than the Forum organization.
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Nov 10, 2008
Firefox crashed yesterday and now everytime I start it Im not logged into various forums so I have to keep logging in again. Ive tried clearing the cache files and OS temp folders.
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Oct 24, 2009
All Microsoft Usenet groups will be migrated to MS forums. I suspect it's due to no moderation on Usenet and because Google is the search engine of choice for Windows problems, even searching through Google's groups. Hence, Bing hopes to replace Google as the search engine of choice for Microsoft's web forums.
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Mar 2, 2010
Hopefully this will be a constructive upbeat productive
thread, unless the usual trolls pollute this thread.
(SR = "Speech Recognition" to save space)
Just how useful is SR, to Windows users?
That of course depends on the user.
One could say that SR is 100% useless to 99% of the
people in this NG, which would be a compelling argument,
difficult to dispute.
However we Windows users get SR free, so it would be
a shame to waste it, *IF* there is any reason at all
for us to use SR.
So, is there a reason?
Yes, a "free form" blog is one reason.
If you have anything at all worth "talking" to another person,
then that is a candidate for doing faster and easier with SR.
Of course if you have NOTHING worth talking about...
So it all boils down to _your_ "worth" to other people,
as perceived by those people themselves.
To close this post, I have one more thing worth mentioning,
namely that our thoughts are fleeting, Great Thoughts often
"get lost in the shuffle".
It is only when we commit those thoughts to permanent text
that those Great Thoughts can do any good for other people,
or even for ourselves.
SR is an excellent way to "capture" your Great Thoughts;
I carry around a 3 ounce digital recorder just for this
purpose - - - and yes, you have guessed right, my real
name is Bill Gates, and I owe my fortune to that tiny
digital recorder, which is one important difference
between me and you ordinary mortals.
because I CAPTURED my great thoughts, while you let
your great thoughts slip through you fingers.
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Jan 13, 2009
I recieved my new hard drive in the mail today and so excited I switched out my 250gb for my new 750gb without reformating or anything. So, now I am not sure what to do because it says my activation key is still active from my other hdd. Oh and if it helps I went from 32bit on 250 to 64bit on the 750. I bought Vista Ultimate in 2007, so I have the RTM version of it.
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May 12, 2010
Every time I go to a certain web site I get a banner across the top of the page saying something like "This site has been blocked from downloading Active X control" Every time I have to click the banner and give permission. I know the site and would like to give it permanent permission. Can I do that?
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Feb 6, 2009
i has a machine that already connected to LAN which has access to internet, and i try to make another dialup connection on top of this LAN. and after dialup is connected, all my internet connectivity is loss, include LAN, until reboot the machine to get the internet connectivity back. Is there a issue in Vista ?
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Dec 23, 2009
The "Analyze Written Documents" feature of WSR appears to be broken. I try to keep up-to-date on three different SR apps, which is not easy, because of the differences. The three SR apps are:
1) Dragon Pro
2) WSR (Vista Speech Recognition)
3) MacSpeech Dictate
....using most recent versions of above 3 apps. Without going into the reason _why_ , I would like to be able to speak the following, and have it come out exactly as shown in the two examples below:........
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May 19, 2009
Mankind uses speech extensively to communicate. Imagine how your life would be affected if you did not have the power of speech. You would carry your handy dandy keyboard and instant printer around with you daily. If a friend were about to step off the curb and get run over by traffic, you would frantically whip out your keyboard, type WATCH OUT! in big bold letters, and wave it in front of his face. Imagine your frustration at the local grocery store, as you and the checker exchange notes about the on-special price of an item, while the line builds up
behind you..............
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Feb 8, 2009
How can I stop Speech Recognation? I have not install it but when the pc starts up SR pops up and ask for setting up the microphone etc. I dont want to use SR.
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Jul 30, 2009
Every time I open an Office application (Word, Excel, etc.) or Outlook, then Speech recognition seems to fire up. When I have my headset plugged in (USB Logitech headset & Microphone) I get a little panel appear which has a microphone icon and it says “Sleeping” or “Try saying “Start Listening””. I have to close this every time. If I unplug my headset & microphone, then on opening the applications I get a pop up message saying “Speech Recognition could not start” with accompanying text of “make sure your audio hardware is working properly and check your audio configuration in the Audio Devices and Sound Themes control panel”.
Every time I open an application it starts, and I don’t find that friendly. Even with the microphone plugged in, and the setting turned to “Off”, it fires up. Just how do I get it to go way for good (and be controlled when I want to use it?) – any ideas? (On Vista Home premium 32 bit SP2)
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May 15, 2010
Are there any programs with similar features to the iMac speech software made for windows. Especially the voices. ???
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Jun 15, 2008
i was just looking for vista voice recognition and i cant find it anywhere ive check in the vista ease of access and still no luck. is there a website where i can download this from?
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Jun 30, 2008
Due to a very touchy "Crysis" I had to create a second partition and load
vista64 entirely on its own.
While this worked well,, am at a bit of a loss how to delete it,
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May 18, 2008
I have a network with two computers, one with XP and the other one with Vista Ultimate. Both computers are wired to a Lynksys router. Before the Vista installation, I had no problem. Now, when I boot and try to go on the net, I got an error message "There is more than one active network connection on this computer."
Th only but cumbersome solution I found was to go in "Network ans sharing Center" where there was not only my private network but also an "unindentified public network". I had to disable the local connection for it then go to diagnose and repair in order to reinstall the local area connection. After that, everything is fine ... until the next reboot.
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Jul 29, 2009
I've been trying to download some templates from the Window Vista web site and I keep getting the message that either I don't have Office 2003 (which I do) or that I don't have Active X. I've gone to different web sites and each has something for me to download, but I don't want to download the wrong thing. I seem to remember months ago trying to do something with Active X, but the little blurb at the top of my screen flashed so fast I couldn't read what it said. Do I need Active X?
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Aug 31, 2009
Groking speech recognition, there are many subtle
ways to fail, as some of you have already found out.
The so-called Help system in WSR is next to useless.
Now that I am well on my way to learning WSR,
I can ask my computer the Really Big Questions
in life, such as:
1) What is the meaning of life.
2) Who invented toilet paper.
3) If all personal computers disappeared,
what real effect would it have on mankind.
4) Is eating beans allowed inside the ISS.
5) Will a USA colony on Mars be democrats or republicans.
6) Now that I can speak directly to my computer by voice,
what should I do if my computer suddenly starts
talking back to me.
I doubt if WSR has any practical uses for the "average user",
but it certainly is fun to play with.
Mark-
--
I was not going to post the following crap, but "andy t"
likes it. It gives him purpose in life, to go into
one of his long abusive tirades; I can't deprive him
of that pleasure.
The following "test" is what I am going to subject WSR to,
about a week from now. To pass the test, no more than
two mistakes can occur, when I "speak in" this article.
It will take me roughly 3 minutes to speak-in this
roughly 200 word medical abstract.
I know, that is a sluggish 67wpm instead of a persons
normal 160wpm normal speaking rate, but this slow
rate is common for intricate technical dictation.
I copied and pasted this article from its original
medical website.
I'm sure most will agree that this is a very stiff
"test" for _any_ speech recognition app.
My bet is that WSR will pass this test, but we
will see for sure in roughly a week from now.
This week is needed by me to get the rest of
my smarts about using WSR.
I know very little about using WSR, as my time has
been spent with other speech apps, namely
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.0 and
MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.2
Test abstract begins after line of asterisks
*****************************
Maximizing therapeutic gain with gemcitabine
and fractionated radiation.
Mason KA, Milas L, Hunter NR, Elshaikh M,
Buchmiller L, Kishi K, Hittelman K, Ang KK.
Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology,
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center, Houston, USA.
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE:
The nucleoside analogue gemcitabine inhibits cellular repair and
repopulation, induces apoptosis, causes tumor
growth delay, and enhances radiation-induced
growth delay. After single doses of drug and
radiation, maximum enhancement of tumor
response was obtained when gemcitabine
preceded radiation by at least 24 h. Conversely,
the cellular radioresponse of the normal
gastrointestinal epithelium was slightly
protected when gemcitabine and radiation were
separated by 24 h. This differential response
created a time frame within which therapeutic
gain could be maximized. In our present
investigation, we sought to define the most
therapeutically beneficial scheme of gemcitabine
administration when combined with fractionated
radiotherapy.
All 3 schedules of drug administration produced
therapeutic gain; however, when gemcitabine was
given more than once in a 5-fraction radiation
treatment schedule, normal tissue toxicity
increased. The highest therapeutic gain (1.4) was
achieved by giving a single dose of gemcitabine
(25 mg/kg) 24 h before the start of fractionated
radiotherapy.
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Apr 28, 2009
I have started tinkering with the built in Windows Speech Recognition within my Vista operating system. I find it quite novel that you can talk to the screen and your words come out on it. Granted that I have cheated at times when it goes wrong and I have to type in corrections but I was wondering if there are any experts out there who could tell me how to make this more accurate?
I have also invested in a program called Dragon Naturally Speaking and loaded it onto my machine today. I started tinkering with this but I believe I have to learn completely different commands to that of Windows Speech Recognition.
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May 21, 2008
I see big bucks being spent for speech-to-text uses in business (billions) - but I question if speech recognition has valid use for us "hobby" users. Anyone here use Dragon NaturallySpeaking for trivial uses?
If so, what can it do better than simply banging on a keyboard?
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Feb 25, 2009
Does WSR (Vista Speech) provide a way of selecting _which_ documents to scan in order to improve speech recognition?
Near as I can determine, it does not seem to matter at allwhether my Vista Document folder is empty, or chock-full of text documents, as far as speech recognition accuracy
is concerned.
I _did_ check-mark the box that allows user documents to be read, but it does not seem to have any effect one way or the other.
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Feb 21, 2010
To me, it is just an alternative way to create text. Some advantages, some disadvantages over the regular keyboard way of creating text. There are two modern speech app's that Vista users can run on their computers, WSR and DNS. Vista users who happen to use Macs can run three speech app's on their Mac, WSR, DNS, MSD.
WSR = Windows Speech Recognition
DNS = Dragon NaturallySpeaking
MSD = MacSpeech Dictate
WSR is free, provided you use the built in microphone that comes with your PC. I think a lot of WSR users wind up buying a microphone, which can run the cost up to $50 or $300, depending on the microphone. DNS costs up to $1,600 which does not include all the auxillary hardware and software, which can easily run up the total cost to over $7,000 if you happen to be a doctor. MSD costs $200, microphone included.
Everyone has their own opinion about the value, or lack thereof, of speech recognition app's. Some people speak from experience, others speak from a broad base of ignorance, still others are trying to sell you something, like microphones for example. In my case, I do not really care whether you use WSR, DNS, or MSD - - -my only concern is for the medical community, where I do volunteer work...........
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