"WhatsAChickacha" wrote:

> Okay,so. I haven't had my laptop long, and all's been fine so far. It's
> Vista Home Premium, 64-bit operating system. I've done the speech
> recognition tutorial, read all the text to the laptop, and it's worked
> fine. In the microphone options panel, it says the built-in one is
> working fine. And it does, because I've tried it in the sound recorder
> and it worked. but when i try to set up speech recognition, and use
> 'other devices' or whatever it is, i read the sentence and the bar
> moves, but it says that the computer hasn't picked up anything. It's
> really confusing because nothing's on mute, the volume's how it's always
> been, I've never changed it, I haven't played around with anything,
> because, knowing me, that'd make it worse.... i looked on the windows
> help site and that did jack for me. I have no idea what could be wrong
> with it, help??

Yes, the built-in microphone on a notebook will be able to make a recording
just fine. However, it will also likely be passing some electronic noise
from within the computer enclosure and definitely picking up any kind of
background noise (some of it just plain environmental) in your dictating
environment. In the tutorial for WSR (Windows Speech Recognition) it
specifically says you will need a good microphone.

If you would like to successfully use Windows Speech Recognition, I suggest
you begin by reading a short article on our web site titled, "Getting Started
With Windows Speech Recognition." Find this at:
http://www.mymsspeech.com/download/WSRGetStarted.pdf

Also, go to:
http://www.mymsspeech.com/articles/index.asp
Listen to the three sound files on How To Sound And Not To Sound. You'll see
you cannot talk conversationally to speech recognition software but must
enunciate every word as clearly as possible and try to speak in phrases as
the system is not only listening for the sound of each word but also
comparing each word to the words around it for context clues. For example,
the word two, to, too sounds exactly alike. However, when I say "Two boys
went to see a Dr. because they ate too much food," the correct words are
recognized.

Although some notebook sound cards do not introduce electronic noise, you
can always assure yourself of the best audio input for speech recognition
when you use a USB microphone specifically designed for speech recognition.
These use USB soundcard chips that have been designed for the frequency range
of the human voice and not music. Here is a page on our web site with
examples of USB microphones for speech recognition. Make sure to go to the
web pages for each by clicking on the picture or links. Many of them have
movies you can watch.
http://www.mymsspeech.com/microphone...asp?subcatID=4

Marty Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc.
See us at: http://www.mymsspeech.com