Speech recognition changes script?

I'm going to be working on a project analyzing some advertising and I thought it would be a great chance to use the speech analysis feature in Premiere CS 6. I did a test run this morning by grabbing six ads and creating exact transcripts of them as .txt files. When I analyzed them in Premiere CS6 I was surprised that the resulting transcription changed a lot of the words to nonsense. I can understand that **without** a script the speech analysis might put in erroneous words but why does it change the words found in the script? For the purposes of my project I'll need the script to be honored. Would Premiere change an Adobe Story text as well? This feature is all of a sudden a lot less useful to me

The problem appears to be a forum response that included HTML along with the AppleScript code. PRE is an HTML command.

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Speech Recognition Apple-Script Issue

I am personalizing the apple speech recognition program but I stumbled upon this problem. If I type in <pre class=command> at the beginning of the script I get a synatax error saying the '<' can't go there. Either I'm making a simple mistake or its buggy.

The problem appears to be a forum response that included HTML along with the AppleScript code. PRE is an HTML command.

Ignore voice commands / Speech Recognition Server timeout

I'm fairly new to AppleScript but I've found it really entertaining and gloriously simple to pick up so far. I've been using it mostly to make my own speakable items for the Mac's voice control, and I've managed to write some basic things like voice commands to set/change volume and brightness. My goal at this point is to be able to do the majority of things I want to do on my computer by voice only. Sue me - I just rewatched Iron Man and I really wish I had a JARVIS system right now.
This means that the computer must always be listening for commands (I have set it to 'listen continuously with keyword', and set the keyword as 'optional before commands'). It defeats the purpose if I have to walk over and hit a key to start listening for commands. At the same time, I don't want to have to speak a keyword, because I will invariably forget to do so and it's also an added hassle (especially when I have several commands to say - I don't want to have to say the keyword before each command).
You might have an idea of where this is going. Obviously, if the computer is always listening, it will pick up on normal conversation and try to interpret it.
I could just deactivate voice commands when I'm not using it, but as I said earlier, I don't want to have to either hit a key or say a keyword. In other words, I want to be able to activate and deactivate voice commands by voice. Deactivating is easy. Activating is what presents an interesting problem, because if it's deactivated, how will it hear my reactivation command?
Thus, the first part of my question: is there a way - any way at all - to get voice commands to ignore commands until given some keyword, short of literally changing its settings to listen for a keyword before the command?
I decided to try to use speech recognition. This must, I think, be involved in some way, because as I said earlier, this presents the unique problem of having voice commands deactivated yet still able to recognise the reactivation command. I had noticed that while the computer is listening for a specific command, it ignores anything that isn't what it is listening for. I tried to use this to my advantage and wrote a script to listen for a reactivation command; until the reactivation command was given, the computer would ignore everything else. The problem is that the speech recognition server times out after two minutes. I have tried to increase this, but to no avail (see below for my attempts).
Thus, the second part of my question: assuming there is no other answer to my first question, is there a way to get speech recognition to listen indefinitely?
Here are the two things I tried to make the timeout last longer, specifically for five minutes (300 seconds) in both cases. Neither worked; both timed out after 120 seconds.
tell application "SpeechRecognitionServer"
set userinput to listen for {"resume voice commands"} giving up after 300
end tell
and
with timeout of 300 seconds
set userinput to listen for {"resume voice commands"}
end timeout

UPDATE: I have since come up with an alternate solution. I created two speakable items, one for 'deactivation' and one for 'activation'. The deactivation command uses UI scripting to set voice commands to 'keyword required' mode (i.e. the keyword is required before each command); the activation command simply sets it back to 'keyword optional' mode.
I figure that as long as I choose a keyword that's unique enough that it (and things that sound like it) won't come up too often in conversation, the computer will ignore anything I say once I activate the keyword requirement. Then, I only need to say the keyword once along with the reactivation command to bring it out of this 'ignore commands' state.
In a way, this is actually better, because it allows me to continue to use voice commands if I really need to, as opposed to having to say the reactivation command to get my computer to listen to me, saying my intended command, and then saying the deactivation command to make it ignore me again.
All the same, if anyone has answers to any of my two original questions, please don't hesitate to share your knowledge! It might come in handy later!

How to set up Speech Recognition?

Referring to following link for detailed discussion,
I would like to know if I create a batchfile in following directory, then after getting through those training, does anyone have any suggestions on how to set where the speech locates
this batch file?
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks, to everyone very much for any suggestions :>
C:\script\run.bat
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/how-to-set-up-speech-recognition/d3a5693e-c17b-4f5b-84fd-9c1c262ae9ba
Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Hi,
You can try to add new words to open bat file in Speech dictionary:
Say "start listening," or tap or click the microphone button to start the listening mode.
Say "open Speech Dictionary" and do any of the following:
-To add a word to the dictionary, say "Add a new word," and then follow the instructions.
For details commands you can use, please refer to this article:
How to use Speech Recognition
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/using-speech-recognition
Kate Li
TechNet Community Support

Speech Recognition Not Working. Why?

I have a 6-month old Macbook (OSX 10.5.5), and I want to try out the built in speech recognition software. For some reason, it won't accept any input, no matter the configuration I put it in. When I click calibrate, it's slow to open, and no matter what I do with the slider, it won't recognize my commands. I've tried it in a new account, but without success. It appears to be system-wide. Also, there are no items in the speakable items folder, and a feedback box does not appear on the desktop. Any ideas?

Im assuming you've used the Sound pane to check that the built-in mic is working, and that you've remembered to click on the "Speakable Items" radio button.
There are a couple of fixes that normally work when changing user helps, but it is possible that two user accounts have the same problems!
1)
Have you got any items in Address Book that are marked as "Company" but have no company name in them? This is an old problem that was supposed to have been fixed with Leopard, but I've heard people complaining about it occasionally since. If there are, try going through them and putting in the company names, then log out and back in again.
2)
Try deleting the preference files
com.apple.speech.recognition.recognizer.prefs.plist
com.apple.speech.recognition.AppleSpeechRecognition.prefs.plist
com.apple.speech.recognition.feedback.prefs.plist
all in ~/Library/Preferences/
Failing those, and the missing Speakable Items suggests that's not the fault, try downloading and reapplying the latest Combo updater.
If that doesn't do the trick, you may have to reinstall the OS.
Sorry!
Archie

Screensaver password & speech recognition

I've seen from older forum messages that a screensaver password can be set in in System Preferences > Security. I've found this doesn't actually work and I wonder if it is because the one account on my Mac, an admin account, does not itself have a password? I don't want a user account password as I'm the only user and never really take my MacBook out the house. What do you think? User password or not?
Also I would like to use the Speech Recognition feature even though it often doesn't recognise requests for the time and date (so I use a regular clock in the bar at the top. The thing is the Mac always starts up with the round gray speech icon on the deskop and I always have to double click it to get it in on the dock. Can this be changed so it starts when the computer starts and stays in the dock?

When you go to the System Prefs > Security, check off the box that says "Require password to wake this computer..." etc. Then, in order to have this setup, yes, you must have a password for the one account on your computer.
I can't help you with the Speech Recognition thing, sorry.
Good Luck!

Speech Recognition stops paying attention.

hey all--
I was having trouble with my speech recognition (as well as a few other things) and so I finally deleted and reinstalled my system out of frustration. There are a lot of commands in the voice commands I don't want/use so I took some of them out or changed their wordings. I am also adding ones of my own.
My main trouble is that after a little bit, or 4-5 spoken commands, it stops listening to me. The green indicators indicate that it is hearing me just fine, but suddenly I can say "computer" all I want and it won't do a darn thing. If I open speech prefs, turn speakable off and back on, that'll fix it for another 4-5 commands. I am not in a noisy environment. It is very irksome!!
~G

OK, I have one more question now, seems to be the same as this question which was never answered years ago:
Speakable Commands>Application Switching -- how to delete items?
When I click on the triangle from the speech command widget and open speech commands, there is a TON of stuff there that I'll never ever use, but these things do not appear in the Library/Speech/Speakable Items folder so that I might be able to delete them. For example, one item I'd like to turn off is just the word "Home" and the computer keeps thinking that I said "Home" instead of whatever else I meant to say. Another keeps opening iChat or Mail, when I say "open new window" or something like that. I tried clicking, control clicking, option clicking, nothing will highlight a command in the Speech Commands window so that I might delete it.
The "Home" command only shows up when I'm using Word, in the "front window" list. However, the Application Speakable Items/Microsoft Word folder is empty. Is there some other way to get into the speakable commands list and weed out unwanted stuff?

Speech recognition for lanaguage input

I am new to Mac, hope someone can give me some hints on this...
I am mixing both English and Chinese to type in my daily basis. Just wondering if it's possible I can use Speech Recognition to change language input method (English to Chinese, or Chinese to English) as I type? Thank you!!!
Jeremy

No there aren't ways to do this, you'll have to use keyboard shortcuts.

What is speech recognition server? Can I use applescript to make an app like siri??

tell application "SpeechRecognitionServer"
set response to listen for {"good","bad"} with prompt "How are you?"
if response is "good" then
say "Wonderful sir.. Is there anything you want me to do for you?"
else
say "Cheer up! Is there anything I can do for you?"
end if
end tell
This is the script i'm trying to run, but there's a problem! it says - "Where is Speech Recognition Server"

The path for that is /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/SpeechRecognit ion.framework/Versions/A/SpeechRecognitionServer.app

Speech Recognition grammar

hello,
please I'm using windows 8(frensh), but I'm creating a speech recognitipon software, and I wanna use the english grammar not frensh, I've used this but the result's giving frensh:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Speech.Recognition;
namespace IWritin
public partial class Form3 : Form
public Form3()
InitializeComponent();
SpeechRecognizer writer = new SpeechRecognizer();
void writer_SpeechRecognized(object sender, SpeechRecognizedEventArgs e)
richTextBox1.AppendText(e.Result.Text.ToString() + " ");
private void Form3_FormClosed(object sender, FormClosedEventArgs e)
Application.Exit();
private void Form3_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
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Hi
ayman-at1000,
I doubt there is no English language in your machine, so first please make sure you have installed English language in your machien.Here is a
blog that discusses installing language packs in Windows8
Then open Advanced Speech Options and change to EN-US.
For more detaild information, please check
Windows 8 Speech Recognition Language
Have a nice day!
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System sleep settings become disabled when speech recognition is enabled. Is this by design?

System sleep settings become disabled when speech recognition is enabled. Is this by design?

randallto wrote:
There was another setting in bois I found that required scrolling in the bios screen. Tricky to find with no mouse.
I am not sure if some day these terminologies can be standardized so someone can follow very specific instructions rather than vague instructions that are further obfuscated with the use of technical acronyms.
That is the problem, that error message in VM is not explicit enough as to what steps to take to correct the problem. These bois screen authors decide arbitrarily to name settings as it relates to their world personally and there are not standards.
I still don't know how that got changed in the first place but that is not an issue with VM ware as to what else is changing the setting.
Do you have any explicit suggestions as to how the error message can be improved?

Turning off speech recognition

Is there a way to completely turn off speech recognition server? I don't use it at all and it takes a lot of memory when running.

Hi
I'm assuming that you've tried turning it off using System Preferences > Speech > Speech Recognition.
If that doesn't work then I guess you could try deleting the preference files. Look in these two folders:
- Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences and
- your user name/Library/Preferences
Look for files with names like: com.apple.speech.recognition. .. .plist
Change the .plist file extension to something else and then reboot the computer. With any luck this should clear the problem. If it makes things worse you can rename the files back to their original names.
Good luck
Bob
iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Speech Recognition: Where and How

Hello,
I am curious to learn of Speech Recognition. I am assuming it is a program that will recognize my voice say certain commands that I tell my computer?
I am wondering how good it is at recognizing commands and applying them? Also, I am not sure how to set it up. Could someone please explain?
Thank you so much.
~Christoph

Kappy wrote:
You have to write new commands using AppleScript. Commands are stored in /Home/Library/Speech/SpeakableItems/ folder.
You don't have to write new commands with AppleScript.
Once you've calibrated the voice (in Speech Preferences), you can use various commands to set up speakable items, such as "Define a keyboard command" or "Make this speakable." Options include whether or not the command applies to all applications or just a single application.
Open the Speech Commands panel by saying, "Show me what to say." This opens a contextual panel that shows what phrases the computer is listening for at any given time. You can set it up to listen for more, such as Menu items or Front Window, by changing the settings in the Commands tab of the Speech Preferences.

Speech Recognition Software and Macbook

I have been told by helpful people on this site that the Macbook already has speech recognition software built into it. Is that so?
Can this be used from inside, for example, Office 2008? Is it so good that I do not have to bother to get any additional SRS software?
Leon

There is some limited speech-activated support, but only that can run pre-set actions that you define. It doesn't work at a level where you can dictate to your machine and have it transcribe what you say. For that you will need additional software such as MacSpeech's iListen or Dictate.
If the former is sufficient for you, you can use AppleScript to write the actions that you want to perform, then save the script in ~/Library/Speech/Speakable Items folder.
The file name you assign to the file is the command you need to speak to have the OS take action.

Qosmio X500 doesn't hear me using speech recognition / microphone

Hi!
I frequently use the Win7 Ultimate speech recognition function.
However since a couple of days the computer doesn't understand what I say anymore.
The built-in microphone is now very unresponsive: I have to get as close as within 10-15cm of the microphone in order to get any acceptable results. I don't know what has changed... never had any problems before.
When I try to do the voice recognition training my computer just doesn't hear me (at least it seems so)...
I don't know what to do...
Thanks for your help!
Regards
Mario

Thanks, I checked the volume setting, but it's ok. Something else must be causing this...
*Anyway this problem is SOLVED,* at least for now.
I was looking for a newer driver version but found only the original driver from 2010.
So I couldn't update but reinstall both sound and webcam drivers (I read somewhere that they are closely related to each other) and subsequently the second reinstall fixed the problem.
Mic works fine again and speech recognition too :-)

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