Speech recognition

Everybody,
Speech recognition is cool.

Lionel, it's cool if you have the time and inclination to 'train' it
properly. Although i did read somewhere that for maximum effect you needed
to speak in a 'mid american' accent; Mmm that rules me out epseically as i'm
from the UK:-)

Seriously I have used it and it does understand the "Queen's" English, but
aftere dicatating I always end up with a throbbing headache.

For maximum effect you also need a good qaulity microphone headset.

--
John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
Windows - Shell/User

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"Lionel" <lionelh@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> Everybody,
> Speech recognition is cool.

Love the speech recognition -- little training needed, and it's pretty
accurate.

It crashes once in a while though and I'm not sure why. The speech
recognition engine just closes down. Not sure what the pattern is yet.

Dan
Sudbury, Canada

Most people didn't realize it was in XP either. But it is!


"DC" <crap@djart.com> wrote in message
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>I think it's really amazing! Wasn't even aware that it was included with
>Vista until I happened upon it. I've had several voice recognition
>programs in the past which were a real pain. This picked up 95% of what I
>was saying, even using just a cheap desktop microphone. Well done Redmond!
>
> Dennis
>
> "Daniel Côté" <d.cote04@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:5AC8F65F-B59D-4E08-AF8A-95779333A85E@microsoft.com...
>> Love the speech recognition -- little training needed, and it's pretty
>> accurate.
>>
>> It crashes once in a while though and I'm not sure why. The speech
>> recognition engine just closes down. Not sure what the pattern is yet.
>>
>> Dan
>> Sudbury, Canada
>

I think it's really amazing! Wasn't even aware that it was included with
Vista until I happened upon it. I've had several voice recognition programs
in the past which were a real pain. This picked up 95% of what I was
saying, even using just a cheap desktop microphone. Well done Redmond!

Dennis

"Daniel Côté" <d.cote04@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:5AC8F65F-B59D-4E08-AF8A-95779333A85E@microsoft.com...
> Love the speech recognition -- little training needed, and it's pretty
> accurate.
>
> It crashes once in a while though and I'm not sure why. The speech
> recognition engine just closes down. Not sure what the pattern is yet.
>
> Dan
> Sudbury, Canada

Where is it in XP ??

I have in XP but only because Microsoft Office 2003 is installed and when I
select Speech in Microsoft Word.

Without Office installed, I don't see where there is any Speech Recognition.

If there is, then I can get rid of Office.

Thanks


"Puppy Breath" <nospam@nothanks.com> wrote in message
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> Most people didn't realize it was in XP either. But it is!
>
>
> "DC" <crap@djart.com> wrote in message
> news:ONt4Pn%23YHHA.3520@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I think it's really amazing! Wasn't even aware that it was included with
>>Vista until I happened upon it. I've had several voice recognition
>>programs in the past which were a real pain. This picked up 95% of what I
>>was saying, even using just a cheap desktop microphone. Well done
>>Redmond!
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>> "Daniel Côté" <d.cote04@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>> news:5AC8F65F-B59D-4E08-AF8A-95779333A85E@microsoft.com...
>>> Love the speech recognition -- little training needed, and it's pretty
>>> accurate.
>>>
>>> It crashes once in a while though and I'm not sure why. The speech
>>> recognition engine just closes down. Not sure what the pattern is yet.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>> Sudbury, Canada
>>
>

Microsoft Speech isn't all bad, but it is back in the dark ages in
comparison with the best current day speech recognition program,
NaturallySpeaking Version 9.5.
Some important differences are that NaturallySpeaking has: interactive
training that provides word by word user feedback regarding successful
recognition, there are multiple user selectable training texts, it is
possible to correct and re-train not just words, but also phrases and
both the desired and mis-recognized phrases; there is a capability of
editing and adding/deleting words and phrases in the master and user
vocabularies, there are specialty vocabularies including business, legal
and medical; user program code can be added to control a variety of
recognition and formatting functions, and, last but not least,
NaturallySpeaking's recognition accuracy is vastly superior to that of
Microsoft Speech.
Finally, it is important to know that accurate speech recognition is
dependent on using a quality microphone and sound converter.

When I click on any of the links in "Speech Recognition" form the Control
Panel" (Like: "Setup microphone" or "Start speech recognition"), I get this
error-message:

"The referenced collection is not installed on your system"
What can I do to fix it?

apalease could you help me? i havr done all the tutiorials and traned my
computer to understand my voice, but it doesnt understand me when i have to
say the petter, pen a nd pater sentence to set up the whole thing,,, its
driving me crazy. i am speaking every clearly and everything else work execpt
that sentence. thanks

"John Barnett MVP" wrote:

> Lionel, it's cool if you have the time and inclination to 'train' it
> properly. Although i did read somewhere that for maximum effect you needed
> to speak in a 'mid american' accent; Mmm that rules me out epseically as i'm
> from the UK:-)
>
> Seriously I have used it and it does understand the "Queen's" English, but
> aftere dicatating I always end up with a throbbing headache.
>
> For maximum effect you also need a good qaulity microphone headset.
>
> --
> John Barnett MVP
> Associate Expert
> Windows - Shell/User
>
> Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org
> Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org
>
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>
> "Lionel" <lionelh@adelphia.net> wrote in message
> news2DFBADE-F5B5-4025-A0BC-AC1456C87B7E@microsoft.com...
> > Everybody,
> > Speech recognition is cool.
>
>

I don't know which sentence you're referring to, but if you've successfully
gone through the tutorials, then perhaps have a think about what has changed
since eg the position of the microphone etc

--
Jon


"vicky" <vicky@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> apalease could you help me? i havr done all the tutiorials and traned my
> computer to understand my voice, but it doesnt understand me when i have
> to
> say the petter, pen a nd pater sentence to set up the whole thing,,, its
> driving me crazy. i am speaking every clearly and everything else work
> execpt
> that sentence. thanks
>
> "John Barnett MVP" wrote:
>
>> Lionel, it's cool if you have the time and inclination to 'train' it
>> properly. Although i did read somewhere that for maximum effect you
>> needed
>> to speak in a 'mid american' accent; Mmm that rules me out epseically as
>> i'm
>> from the UK:-)
>>
>> Seriously I have used it and it does understand the "Queen's" English,
>> but
>> aftere dicatating I always end up with a throbbing headache.
>>
>> For maximum effect you also need a good qaulity microphone headset.
>>
>> --
>> John Barnett MVP
>> Associate Expert
>> Windows - Shell/User
>>
>> Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org
>> Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org
>>
>> The information in this mail/post is supplied "as is". No warranty of any
>> kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy,
>> reliability or content of this mail/post. The Author shall not be liable
>> for
>> any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of
>> the
>> use of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this
>> mail/post..
>>
>> "Lionel" <lionelh@adelphia.net> wrote in message
>> news2DFBADE-F5B5-4025-A0BC-AC1456C87B7E@microsoft.com...
>> > Everybody,
>> > Speech recognition is cool.
>>
>>