DirectX/ RAM Recognition
Jun 29, 2009I have 4GB of RAM and recognized by Vista but DirectX shows only 3070MB.
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DirectX 9 And DirectX 10 Installed
Sep 12, 2007Im assuming that Vista has come with DirectX10 already installed on it? Correct? I was wondering if I have to install DirectX 9 on my computer as well to get Medieval II to work since it says that DirectX 9 is required?
View 9 Replies View RelatedSpeech Recognition (SR) - Just How Useful Is It ?
Mar 2, 2010Hopefully 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.
Windows Speech Recognition
Dec 23, 2009The "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:........
Speech Recognition: Sleeping
Jul 30, 2009Every 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)
Voice Recognition Not Work
May 29, 2008I am trying to transcribe an interview and tried a program called "wave to text" but when downloaded it seemed to have a virus with it and, even worse, would not work. Can vista take an audio file and transcibe it?
View 4 Replies View RelatedSpeech Recognition Is Deleted
Jun 15, 2008i 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?
View 4 Replies View RelatedPlugging Away With WSR (Windows Speech Recognition)
Aug 31, 2009Groking 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.
Speech Recognition: Make This More Accurate
Apr 28, 2009I 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.
Speech Recognition Only Good For Business?
May 21, 2008I 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?
Pondering Speech Recognition Application
Feb 21, 2010To 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...........
Windows And Hard Drive Recognition
Mar 23, 2008My question is how come when a hard drive (Maxline III Model: 7V250F0 SATA) is initialized within windows XPPro and partitioned/ formatted and can be used in XPPro, when WindowsVista Home Basic on the same machine does not recognized the drive except in disk manager it shows the drive without drive letters? I have XPPRO installed on drive 0 and Vista Home Basic on drive 3 in a dual boot with vista boot pro. Noticed the bios has it as a master drive along with another drive on an IDE which is a master too? I tried initializing in vista without any luck? So I tried using after initializing with XPPro and Vista Home Basic wants to load drivers for hardware but can't find any? I am confused! Anyway the drive was out of a Dell computer originally (possibly an OEM drive?) and I used a utility from their web sight to erase the drive. Then I did as mentioned above............
View 5 Replies View RelatedSpeech Recognition/dictation Stopped
Jun 4, 2009When I'm dictating text to the computer, if I repeat a phrase that I've dictated before (and I often repeat things like book titles), it will stop taking dictation and instead move the cursor to the place where the phrase appears previously in the document. The only way I've figured out to get it "unstuck" and continue taking dictation is to type the repeated phrase myself.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWindows Speech Recognition Vs. Dragon?
Jun 6, 2010I see that Vista offers Speech Recognition software that allows you to open apps and dictate speech into Word, Wordpad, etc. Does anyone have any idea on how this free Speech Recognition software compares to the Dragon software that I've been seeing advertised on TV commercials?
View 7 Replies View RelatedVista Speech Recognition Function
May 8, 2008Does anyone know if you can take a sound file created with a handheld digital recorder and turn it into written text by using the Vista Speech Recognition function?
View 5 Replies View RelatedSpeech Recognition, Pros And Cons
Dec 16, 2009Pros and cons of using speech recognition (SR) on a "personal" computer in 2009/2010 This might be opening up a can of worms, let's see if I can stick to the subject, without straying off on all the side subjects that might crop up.
1) generally faster than typing
2) frees up hands
3) can be done without immediate access to a computer, i.e. with a tiny digital recorder
4) frees up more of a persons brain, i.e. because speaking is more natural and intuitive than typing
5) can be done while a person is wandering around his house doing chores, i.e. wireless microphones like the Samson Airline 77 have a 300 foot range
6) modern SR apps can be used in very noisy places,such as next to a loud TV, without adversely affecting the text accuracy
Customizing Windows Speech Recognition
Mar 8, 2009I must say I'm very impressed with speech recognition. I'm proud to be one of the stubborn first users to insist to use speech recognition even though I've made my computer use extremely comfortable using either the mouse or the keyboard (hopefully soon I can add or speech recognition).
Am I the only using speech recognition? I'm interested to know if there others using speech recognition, and how they're using it. The entire writing of this post, including opening Firefox, opening my password manager, logging in to and navigating through Vista forums, setting cookie options, editing and posting this thread was done solely using Windows speech recognition without mouse or keyboard (in a record breaking 40 minutes!).
Asking Again And Again For DirectX 9.0c
Jul 26, 2009This may have been answered but I'm slow. I just bought a new system that has Vista 64 on it. I am trying to install [game] and keep getting a message that I need DirectX 9.0c or later. I have DirectX 10 and keep downloading 9.0c. However when I try to load my game I still get the message that I need 9.0c version or later.
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Dec 26, 2007k so after listening to all the hype about the directx 10 and evrything i finally got a new graphics card with full directx 10 support and all. where is it? i searched everywhere even on the microsoft website...can anyone guide me how to download it?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhere Can Get DirectX 10?
Aug 29, 2008Where can I download DirectX 10 for Vista? I heard that it should be installed on Vista already but I don't think I have it.
View 6 Replies View RelatedNewLine Bug Of Windows Speech Recognition Revisited
Feb 16, 2009$MS, the same idiots who brought us that turd of an OS called Vista, are doing their usual trick by trying to disguise a bug in Windows Speech Recognition
as a "feature". Namely the "New Line" bug, which capitalizes the first word of every new line, whether the WSR user wants it capitalized or not. This forces the user to waste time correcting the capitalization of lines in his text document............
Cannot Install DirectX
May 13, 2008I'm running Vista 32bit Home Premium on a new PC. I can't install DirectX, depite the file coming from the microsoft website and going through the whole GenuineCheck validation process successfully.
Trying to run DirectX I get this messageInstalling Components part:
'A cabinet file necessary for installation cannot be trusted. Please verify
the Cryptographic Services are enabled and the cabinet file certificate is
valid.'
Directx 10 Compliance
Apr 22, 2009I am currently operating XP Pro 32 bit and Directx 9. In a few days I will be installing from scratch Vista Home premium 64 bit. What I am not sure of is whether my CPU is compliant with Directx 10. It is an Intel Pentium D 915. I have searched Intels site for hours to no avail.
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Nov 13, 2008every time i download and try to install the newest version of directx, i get an error saying that the install can't initialize and that i need to try again later or check my connection. . .
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May 14, 2008I can't get directx 10 to run on any games I play. For example, Team Fortress 2. The option to change which direcx version to use is grayed out, and it's on direct x 9 on both hardware and software.My specs: I'm running Windows Vista home premium (32 bit), and dxdiag confirms DirectX 10 is installed. I have an Intel Core 2 6600, and 4 gigs of ram. The video card I'm running is the MIS Geforce 8800 GTS, updated to the latest drivers (drivers released may 13th 2008). I have dual monitors, the main one running at a 1680 x 1050 resolution, and my secondary running at a 1280 x 1024 resolution. When I set some game options to run at direct x 10, they will fail to load at all. With more and more directx 10 games on the way.
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Jul 8, 2009i have just realized that since installing SP2 i no longer have DirectX 10.1 its reverted to DirectX 10.which was before SP1. Anyone know how i can get 10.1 back?
View 4 Replies View RelatedSpeech Recognition In Word 2003 Command Mode?
May 16, 2010I have used Microsoft Office's built-in speech recognition successfully with Word 2003 on XP. Now I am trying to use Vista's speech recognition with Word 2003.The training program recognizes voice properly, as evidenced by saying a training phrase improperly it won't let you advance to the next screen until you say it properly. So it is hearing and understanding voice.But no words EVER appear in the Word document. Not the wrong words, NO words.When turning on speech recognition with Word open one of two things happen,either:
1. A variety of commands seem to happen sidebars open, dialog boxes pop up,
etc.
2. Speech recognition dialog shows "What was that?"
It is clearly hearing and responding. Set mic volume several times, and db meter in speech recognition shows normal response. It's as if it's in what in Office used to be called "command mode" where it only listens for commands, not words.
I mention Office's command mode, but Vista does not seem to have a "command mode," although it is behaving as if everything is either a command or unclear, and never a word. Note that choosing Tools>Speech in Word has no effect. No checkbox appears, clicking the speech option and speaking, then clicking again and speaking, etc. has no effect.
Why Speech Recognition Is Unpopular With Personal Computer Users
Jan 19, 2010Why is speech recognition not very popular among personal computer users? Tough question, but here are my guesses.
1) The SR technology is not yet all that good. For decades, we have been promised that SR is "just around the corner", but the reality is that the technology still has serious flaws, as far as easily converting speech to text is concerned.
2) Personal computing, by its nature, is not all that "suitable" for speech recognition use. The major benefits of SR are to that small group of people who need to "report" their actions, such as doctors, lawyers, reporters, detectives, etc........
Disable Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) Command Vocabulary?
Jul 29, 2009Is there a way to disable WSR command vocabulary? I will be using Vocola instead.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWindows Speech Recognition:how To Make User-created
Aug 6, 2009how to run the speech app. (WSR is short for Windows Speech Recognition). I gave up, nothing in the Help section about how to make user-created macros, or user-created commands. Knowing how to do that is absolutely necessary if you desire to get WSR to be even halfways accurate and fast. WSR has absolutely the worse Help section I have seen in ANY speech app. After a lot of searching on the web, using search phrases like: How to Make User-Created Macros. I literally stumbled over this excellent site - After you spend a lot of time and effort creating your own macros and commands, WSR might perform much better, at least I hope so. Let you know for certain in a couple of weeks. It will take me that long to build up a bunch of user-macros and user-commands, guided by that excellent website.
View 6 Replies View RelatedDirectX Only Recognise 3326mb
Jun 30, 2008im using vista ultimate x64
with 4gb ram,512mb vga card,celeron d.my problem is why my directX only
recognise 3326mb while the windows and bios startup showing 4096mb(4gb)