Speech Recognition: Sleeping
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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Jun 4, 2009
When 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.
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Jun 6, 2010
I 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?
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May 8, 2008
Does 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?
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Dec 16, 2009
Pros 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
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Mar 8, 2009
I 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!).
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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............
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May 16, 2010
I 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.
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Jan 19, 2010
Why 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........
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Jul 29, 2009
Is there a way to disable WSR command vocabulary? I will be using Vocola instead.
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Aug 6, 2009
how 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.
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Jun 21, 2009
Two of the biggest criticisms of WSR, Windows Speech Recognition built into the Vista and soon to be released Windows 7 operating system were:
1. No easy method to transfer, backup and restore one's user training profile.
2. No way to keyboard corrections into the Alternates Panel, the corrections box of alternate choices for words that were misrecognized.
We're now pleased to announce the WSR team at Microsoft has released an easy to use transfer, backup and restore tool. Rob Chambers of Microsoft's Speech team suggests: "Be sure to download the release notes as they contain useful information as well as user instructions. Please note that this is a "technical preview" version and as such there are a few known issues with the tool."
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Mar 29, 2009
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Like there a sleep button on my keyboard, but when i use it, it sleeps, dissconecting me from the net and etc so my downloads will stop.
Just want to be able to have a key that when i press it will just lock the screen of my pc and thats all.
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Jun 6, 2010
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My Spyware Doctor history file suggest that it's been several weeks since the last scheduled scan, yet the scanner scheduler is set to run every night. We close the laptop cover each night and I'm not sure if closing the cover stops the scheduled scan from running.
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Apr 11, 2009
when i leave my computer on untouched my monitor sleeps. then i shake the mouse or hit a button it says Digital Input and turns back on. Can i stop my monitor from sleeping?
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Oct 23, 2009
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I have vaio with vista home premium installed on it. My laptop goes into sleep mode involuntarily, anytime while working on it. What i have observed is, this normally happens when i am trying to type on my laptop keyboard, All of sudden it goes to sleep mode and i have to press enter to get it back. The frequency of this unusual behavior has only increased by time. I have already installed the latest display drivers, I have also reset my Bios to default setting. Nothing seems to be working.
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Mar 23, 2008
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It works again after I restart the computer. We had the key changed recently. My roommate used to get kicked off but then would just unplug & replug the modem, and she didn't have to restart her computer. I've checked with Gateway and they swear for some reason it couldn't be my computer although that seems fishy to me. Comcast can't see why it would have to do with them and to be honest I can't either................
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Sep 22, 2009
my desktop as usual, its a dell XPS 630I and Ive had it maybe 4 months total. I just checked my email and logged back off to the user screen. While I was gone it kicked into hibernation mode like it always does when noones using it. When I got home like 4 hours later I moved the mouse to bring it out of sleeping and nothing happened the screen stayed blank. So I waited and waited and it never kicked back on so I manually restarted it with the power button and it loaded to the dell screen which took alot longer than normal to load, right after that it popped up "Error Loading OS". I tried restarting and hitting the F8 button... no luck.... I hit F12 and tried running the diagnostics... nothing came up...
I put the dell cd in that has vista on it and hit the repair button near the bottom of the install screen and ran the different tests and nothing came up wrong. However I tried the memory test and it started I needed to reboot in order to use it. however when I did that it kicked back to the "Error Loading OS" screen. So thats where I am right now and I have no clue what to do, I am going to just do a clean install but theres stuff Id really like to get off this drive before I wipe it clean.
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