Mac Speech Recognition into Flash

Is it possible to integrate Mac`s built in speech recognition
feature ()or any other speech recognition software) into flash?
I am trying to make a speech recognition based flash
application. It does not need to work online, jut locally on my mac
(no communication server needed).
any ideas from other developers where to start?
thank you in advance.

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Windows 7 Speech Recognition causes Flash Player exception error in Firefox

I have a strange problem.
My system is Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1.
Today I started working with Windows Speech Recognition. I found that if I have Speech Recognition running before I launch Firefox 30.0, I get a Flash Player Plug-in Exception error when I load certain websites.
The version of Flash Player (Shockwave Flash) is 14.0.0.14.
I also have SilverLight Plug-In 5.1.20913.0 installed and active.
The problem does not occur when I use IE 10.0.9200.16798 to load the same website.
One of the websites on which the error occurs is: www.bikeforums.net. The error appears as soon as the home page is finished loading.
The exact error reads as follows:
FlashPlayerPlugin_14_0_0_145.exe - Application Error
The exception unknown software exception (0xc0000710) occurred in the application in location 0x774aa289.
Any ideas?
Thanks
FW

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Speech recognition with Flash- Can it be done?

is there any way in flash to detect the voice and detect what
user is saying.
eg if user is saying "yes" then run some command and if "no"
then other.

David,
> Flash project can have an interface where
Illustrator/PDF files
> could be opened from within a Flash Projector file
allowing
> users to turn on/off layers of graphics per their needs
and then
> print out the results
Photoshop and Illustrator files are supported for input in
the Flash
authoring tool -- even to the point of turning on/off layers
-- but for
better or worse, Flash Player doesn't support either format
at runtime.
(They're converted to Flash Player-compatible files by the
authoring tool.)
I won't go so far as to say this definitively can't be done
a.viary.com does some amazing Photoshop-like things using
Flash, and recent
ActionScript does allow for manipulation of byte arrays -- so
desktop
control over PSDs and AIs *might* be possible in theory, but
it would be the
sort of custom programming that a only handful of the top
Flash developers
in the world would know how to do.
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Recommendations for Medical/Scientific Speech Recognition

I was not sure which forum would be most appropriate for this, but does anyone have experience with Mac Speech recognition in the biomedical area? I have been using Dragon Dictate on a PC to dictate clinic notes. This was a godsend, since the vocabulary is complex and hard to type, especially when really tired. The medical vocabulary actually did better on obscure terminology (it got "pinguecula" but has trouble with "cane"). It seems that Dragon on Mac is defunct and I see mixed reviews of ViaVoice and iListen. Everyone would be happier if they didn't have to read my terrible handwriting, so any help here would be appreciated. thanks, -robin colgrove

Hi Robert,
I too am looking for speech recognition software. I searched the Apple Forums and of course found references to:
ViaVoice: http://www.scansoft.com/viavoice/osx/
iListen : http://www.macspeech.com/products/ilisten/
But I didn't find any posts from any, actual
b users
of the above software. And ViaVoice, developed by IBM, but now distributed by Scansoft, of Dragon NaturallySpeaking fame, doesn't appear to have been updated since at least 2003, and doesn't appear to be Tiger-compatible, or at least that's what I made from the website and the date of the last downloadable mac update.
Also I watched a recent vidcast interview with David Pogue, author of Tiger the Missing Manual et al, where he said he uses NaturallySpeaking (available only for PCs) to dictate the text in his (mac and pc) books. Ouch! You'd think that if the Mac speech recognition products were equally good, he'd be using one of them instead?
Finally, Rebecca Freed, PCWorld's 'Mac Skeptic' columnist, posted this review in Dec 2004: Talk Back to Your Mac, which ends:
"I would need a compelling reason--such as a hand injury or a professional need to dictate while doing something else--to spend more than $100 to purchase either one."
best of luck and post what you find out,
...ben
PS. If you go with
b iListen
be sure and get a package with a microphone, as they have very specific requirements for supported microphones.

Disable contacts from speech recognition in Mac OS

Hi,
the speech recognition is a good tool for my conceptual work. I can just speak huge documents and it writes everything. However, sometimes it has it's mistakes, what is ok. But sometimes it uses names from my private contacts in the text. This is a big problem, when I miss it. Because I use the documents for business purposes. Is there a way to disable the private contacts or switch the speech recognition to a "stealth mode" or a "non-private mode"?
thank you in advance!
Jascha

Unfortunately no, not at all. I've tried these boards which were obviously fruitless on this question. I've tried the Genius Bar. And I've tried other technical resources. I do not believe it's possible at this point.
"Little stuff" like this.... it's seemingly relatively trivial in the grand scheme of things, but can be real productivity killers when I have to go back and forth between Apple's Contacts software and the actual Google Apps/Gmail web UI. It's these little things that create quirks between Google Apps and Mac OS that almost make me want to return to Exchange. It's much more expensive and other than Outlook and Calendar/Mail/Contacts, there's no virtually no interoperability options on the Mac. But at least it's consistent and I know what will work and what won't.
On the other hand, I could also solve this problem by simply putting ALL of my contacts in my Google Apps account into the "My Contacts" folder. But that kinda defeats the purpose of having a "My Contacts" folder.
Sorry Steven--I wish I had a better update or a resource to point you to, but I'm at the end of the road on this one.
dt

I wanted to buy a Dragon ,Speech Recognition Programme for Mac but it says its for Lion, and I have Snow Leopard. Would it have worked on Snow leopard?

I wanted to buy a Dragon ,Speech Recognition Programme for Mac but it says its for OS Lion, and I have OS Snow Leopard. Would it have worked on Snow Leopard?

The simplest method would be to ask them for their Snow Leopard version and say you can't upgrade to 10.7 or 10.8. I'm almost sure they will sell you a copy.
Generally if your machine can only upgrade to 10.7 Lion and not directly to 10.8 Mountain Lion, then it's best left on 10.6.8. in my opinion as your going to loose too much other software and slow down your machine in the process.
This rapid OS X upgrade cycle has caused plenty of problems for users and developers alike, so I suspect you will find a sympathizer with the developer.
In fact I'm not recommending Mac's to anyone anymore because Apple simply has lost touch with reality.

Best speech recognition software for Mac?

What is the best speech recognition software available for a Mac? I want to be able to control my computer by voice while I lecture. I am aware of Dictate but hoping there is something better on the market.
Thanks,
todd

The problem is a matter of market. Good speech recognition software is expensive to develop, and it's a small market. Even smaller for Macs. MacSpeech has been providing speech recognition products for several years, now, and Dictate is their newest product having been licensed from Dragon. This is the best speech recognition software available on either platform.

Speech Recognition stops working after a minute of nonuse

I'm a grad student trying to keep from exacerbating my carpal tunnel and just figured out how to use the voice commands on my macbook. So far, they work great, they hear my voice, it does what I tell it to do, and I'm not constantly hitting apple+tab and apple+c and apple+v and so on, which really helps my wrists!
BUT. If I go for more than a minute or two without using a voice command, it stops working. I can't pinpoint anything else that triggers it other than if I stop using it for a little bit while I'm reading a paper or something. The microphone is calibrated and working, the little black arrows and the blue and green bars flash on the widget like it hears me, but then it won't give me the sound that says the command was recognized and it doesn't perform the command any time I try to use it again after a few minutes of not being used. It's like the recognition part goes to sleep and won't wake up.
If I go to the system preferences and toggle Speakable Itemst off and then on again, it starts working again until another minute or two of non-use. If I use spoken commands constantly, it will stay on for a good long while, but I'm not using it constantly that's the end of speech recognition. I really can't stop to just tell it some unneeded command to keep it awake all the time! Eventually, the computer gets confused if I turn the "speakable items" on and off too many times from the System Preferences, and it gets confused about whether or not it's turned on or off, or the widget disappears but the System Preferences panel thinks the Speakable Items is on.
I read somewhere that other people with a newer OS have a similar problem if they don't use the default speaking voice, so I switched to Alex and restarted, and the same thing is still happening.
I'm running 10.5.8, and using safari, word 2011, preview, nothing too crazy. My speech recognition is in "Listen only while key is pressed" mode, and like I said, works great until I stop using it for a minute or so. I'm using the internal microphone on my MacBook (dob circa 2008). Any tips on how I can actually keep my Speech Recognition useful? Thanks in advance!

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 server using all kinds of memory!

I'm running an imac 27" with 8gb of memory and have been doing some video work lately. Watching things with activity monitor I noticed that speech recognition server process was using 800mb + of memory. Normally I keep speech recognition started but activated by voice suppressed with the escape key.
I have already found that -using- speech commands prevents the computer display from going to sleep, like this discussion - https://discussions.apple.com/message/11395271?searchText=speech%20recognition%2 0server#11395271
I reported this as a bug to Apple, and they admitted there is a problem, and that maybe they will fix it but no guarantee.
I created a workaround for the display sleep that seems to alleviate both situations, I "wrote" an applescript to restart speakable items. It's pretty simple but you have to wait for the processes to go away, around 30 seconds or so.
Has anyone else seen or reported the excessive memory use with speech recognition?

That's wishful thinking if you think an update will be made overnight by Apple because of a complaint by an individual.
10.7.3 reportedly only updates:
Add Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian language support
Address issues when using smart cards to log into OS X Resolve issues authenticating with directory services Address compatibility issues with Windows file sharing
10.7.2 reportedly only updates:
iCloud stores your email, calendars, contacts, Safari bookmarks, and Safari Reading List and automatically pushes them to all your devices. Back to My Mac provides remote access to your Mac from another Mac anywhere on the Internet. Find My Mac helps find a missing Mac by locating it on a map and allows you to remotely lock the Mac or wipe all its data. Getting started with iCloud is easy. After installing the update, OS X will automatically present an iCloud setup panel. Simply enter an existing Apple ID or create a new one and then follow the on screen instructions. To learn more about iCloud visit http://www.apple.com/icloud.
The 10.7.2 update also includes Safari 5.1.1 as well as fixes that: Allow reordering of desktop spaces and full screen apps in Mission Control.
Enable dragging files between desktop spaces and full screen apps. Address an issue that causes the menu bar to not appear in full screen apps. Improve the compatibility of Google contact syncing in Address Book.
Address an issue that causes Keynote to become temporarily unresponsive.
Improve VoiceOver compatibility with Launchpad.
Address an issue that causes a delay in accessing the network after waking from sleep.
Enable booting in to Lion Recovery from a locally attached Time Machine backup drive. Resolve an issue that causes screen zoom to stop working. Improve Active Directory integration.
10.7.1:
Address an issue that may cause the system to become unresponsive when playing a video in Safari. Resolve an issue that may cause system audio to stop working when using HDMI or optical audio out. Improve the reliability of Wi-Fi connections. Resolve an issue that prevents transfer of your data, settings, and compatible applications to a new Mac running OS X Lion. Resolve an issue in which an admin user account could be missing after upgrading to OS X Lion.
These are each information from the various update pages.    While Apple has been known to include unreported updates in their version updates, the closest to something desired was the Voiceover improvement in 10.7.2. That though is of speech from putting the cursor over text to read out loud.
If they are running 10.7.3, and have not seen improvement, then my advice from my other post is good.
I would also indicate that one is running 10.7.3 in one's profile so one knows one isn't missing any updates that may not already be applied.

Speech recognition window problem

My speech recognition window (the little circle thing) disappears once in a while for extended periods of time. I have done all the things suggested in the help including:
1. going to system preferences and turning speech off and on
2. restarting and turning off and on / turning off, restarting, and then on
3. deleting the com.apple.speech.recognition.feedback.prefs.plist, emptying trash, and turning off/on, turning off doing the same thing and on, off, deleting, restarting, on, etc.
4. copying all related speech recognition prefs from another admin's library into mine.
I once thought it may be some overheating issue as it once came back after i had shutdown and let it off for a while. however, the most recent issue, it came back without shutting it off.
sometimes it's gone for hours at a time or shortest 30mins. It usually disappears when i turn it off to let my wife login to her setup or when i turn it off when i know i wont be using it for a while or i am going to play a memory intesive game. my wife's login seems to have no problem but she doesn't use it anywhere as much as i do.
i have set up a few of my own commands but nothing critical. things like CNN, Visualizer, etc.
any ideas?
for the record, it's back now......

hi,
i removed all preferences stored in <your home>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.*
and switched speech recognition on/off/on and the window magically appeared -use rm carefully-
make sure that you clean the speech processes (kill -9) too before removing these files.
quite happy to find this, this has been a real p..n in the *. Apple guys, please clean this up asap.
btw: i've an intel mc mini single cpu v10.4.6.
mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Speech Recognition Software for OS X 10.4.8?

Does anyone know if there is any software available for the Intel Mac (running OS X 10.4.8) that has speech recognition-perhaps the equivilent to 'Dragon Naturally Speaking' by Nuance Communications? I am specifically looking for an application that converts speech into text.
I know that the version of Microsoft Word I use can convert text to speech, I just need to be able to convert speech into a text document.
Intel Macbook 1.8Ghz

http://www.macspeech.com/

Speech Recognition - Is It Improved in CS5?

In the CS4 forum, a user is trying to work with Speech Recognition, without a lot of luck. The poster asked if that feature was improved in CS5. Any reports?
Thanks,
Hunt

foochuck,
This should be possible in CS4, though I can only test at the moment in CS5. Interestingly, Soundbooth won't import an AC3 file, whereas Premiere Pro will (again, this is CS5). But, if you bring the AC3 file into Premiere, you can actually do one of two things to be able to transcribe the audio, assuming you have Soundbooth:
With the clip selected in a bin, right-click it and select Edit in Adobe Soundbooth > Extract Audio. Premiere will generate a 32-bit WAV (or AIFF, I suppose, if you're using a Mac) and drop it in the bin. It'll also launch Soundbooth with the file front and center.
Drop the clip in a sequence, right-click it in the sequence, and select Edit in Adobe Soundbooth > Render and Replace. This will basically do the same as above--the audio will be replaced with a 32-bit WAV, opened in Soundbooth, and a clip dropped into the project's bin--but it will also replace the AC3 in the sequence with the newly-generated WAV.
From here, you can either transcribe the WAV in Premiere or Soundbooth; the transcription metadata will follow the rendered WAV file wherever it goes. Note, however, that that metadata can't and won't be associated with the original AC3; that shouldn't be a big problem, unless you're expecting it to happen.
Hope that helps...

Speech Recognition calibration slow

Hi, I have a macbook with OS X Leopard 10.5.4 and an LTB Q-Bean wireless microphone. I am trying to get the microphone to work with the built in speech recognition, however, when I go into the microphone calibration in the speech settings, the display showing the microphone volume seems to react very slowly to my voice (when I say something, it takes a second for the bar to jump to the right) and it never recognizes any of the phrases that I say. The microphone works fine in the sound settings (the volume levels there are very responsive to my voice) and with other programs such as MacSpeech Dictate. How can I fix this to work with Mac's built in speech recognition? Thanks!

I think you mean "Text to speech"? Alex is the new text to speech voice.
If you go into system preferences > Speech > Text to speech and select "Alex" and then press the "Play" button on the right of the next line down does it announce itself correctly? If it doesn't speak at all then you might have an installation problem and need to re-install.
You could also try quitting from System Preferences and opening Finder, then go into your home directory then Library then Preferences and deleting the file "com.apple.speech.voice.prefs.plist". Then open up System Preferences and select the "Alex" voice again and see if that helps.

Speakable Items - speech recognition

I just recently saw a demo about 'speakable items' and the different speech recognition programs built into Leopard -- Amazing!
However I am wondering how you create a new speakable item, I know there is a 'make this page speakable' command, but it doesn't seem to work or I am not exactly sure how to use it properly. For example I want to make an 'Open Gmail' command, how do I go about adding things like that??
Any ideas?
Thanks

I just tried the same thing you did. The file it created is IN the speakable items folder, but it's still not doing it. Maybe my intonation isn't right. AHA, that's it We say Geemail but I'm betting you typed it Gmail which is more like "Gumail". Go into that folder, rename that icon (Geemail, Jeemail, or G mail) and see if it works.
While I was researching this, I did find this page you might like.
http://lifehacker.com/software/speech-recognition/hack-attack-make-your-macs-spe ech-recognition-work-for-you-215764.php

Speech recognition keyword not recognised

I have recently installed Montain lion and have set up and calibrated speech recognition. I very successfully issue voice commands to my Mac in order to open close applications etc. this all works very well as long as I do not use a keyword in order to activate it into the listening mode. I have tried several words including the default word, computer, but it just does not seem to recognise my keyword. Has anyone experienced a similar problem?
This is getting me a little frustrated and I wonder if anybody has experienced something similar and has found a solution thank you.
My daughter on a MacBook and using Snow Leopard has calibrated has voice recognition and uses her keyword successfully.
Paul

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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