Speech recognition - keystrokes and commands

I have recently began using Windows 7 speech recognition with my Photoshop elements 10 software. It works wonderful. Now that I have all of my "routine" tasks with verbal commands I can focus on what I am drawing rather than spending much time clicking menus and tapping keys :-) I would like to expand my verbal commands to be able to set the options in all of the "option tools menus" and it would be great to pick items from the drop-down menus.
Has anyone experience in this area? If so I would appreciate your wisdom and advice.

OK, I'm using speech recognition to compose this message.
I don't think it's possible to use SR to access the Options Bar, at least I haven't found out how to do it.
Picking items from the drop down menus is done with numbers. For example, I'll say "Click Filter" and the drop down menu will display. Then I need to say "Show Numbers" and pick the relevant choice. When the sub-menu appears, I need to do the "Show Numbers" thing again.
Ken

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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.

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I primarily author inside of RoboHelp HTML. I was thinking of getting 'Dragon Naturally Speaking 10' to cut down on hand/wrist strain, but wanted to see if anyone else has used it with RH and what your experiences were. Does it work within this environment? I ask because Vista's run-of-the-mill speech recognition doesn't work too well there but does tolerably well inside of Word / Wordpad. Any feedback is appreciated.
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The best place to find a speech recognition rated answer is the KnowBrainer Speech Recognition Forum. http://www.knowbrainer.com/PubForum/

Speech Recognition German and How to create a sythesis voice ?

Dear Sir,
I'm a teacher in Turkey.I have written some programs by Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1.But I want to develop my own voices.How can I do it please?
Best Regards !
Mursit Hakan Cil
German Teacher
Mursit Hakan Cil (NO SIGNATURE)

I had the exact same problem with the Dutch version.
I used Firefox as browser. And that's a more secure browser. Switch your standard browser to Internet Explorer (and switch it back again as fast as you can after your login is ok...)

Windows Speech Recognition Macros - Wait for Second Command

Hello all. 'm terribly sorry if this was posted in the wrong forum. Let me know where to put it and I'll move it accordingly.
I'm working with Windows Speech Recognition Macros, and I've got a question. Is there ANY way to write a macro that is triggered when the user says something (<listenFor></listenFor>), has the computer say something back to the user (<speak></speak>)
and then waits a number of seconds for a specific command from the user? An example of what I'm saying would be something like....
(I named my computer Aurora)
ME: Aurora, close all windows.
AURORA: Command received. Confirming close all windows.
*WAIT*
ME: Confirm.
AURORA: Command confirmed. Closing all windows.
or something along those lines to create some sort of dialogue between the computer and I. Is this acheiveable through the use of Speech Recognition Macros, or would I need to design a program that integrates Windows Speech Recognition to do this (if so,
point me in the right direction)? Or worse, am I asking too much from a simple Speech Recognition program?

I'm working with Windows Speech Recognition Macros, and I've got a question. Is there ANY way to write a macro that is triggered when the user says something (<listenFor></listenFor>), has the computer say something back to the user (<speak></speak>)
and then waits a number of seconds for a specific command from the user? An example of what I'm saying would be something like....or something along those lines to create some sort of dialogue between the computer and I. Is this acheiveable through the
use of Speech Recognition Macros, or would I need to design a program that integrates Windows Speech Recognition to do this (if so, point me in the right direction)? Or worse, am I asking too much from a simple Speech Recognition program?
If you are asking if you can add wait commands to WSRMacros I do not see why you need a separate program. The Toolkit developed for WSR allows easy creation of WSRMacros and nesting of multiple macros using the Pause Execution command which inserts
your choice of the length of the Wait state.
For writing your own Wait state command, see the MSDN article on the Wait state command. I tried inserting the link but it won't activate because my account has not yet been approved.
Marty Markoe
2010-2011 Microsoft MVP

Speech recognition and manual user input

I have a main GUI VI that contains two listboxes. Both listboxes are selectable by the user. Here is how I want them to interact.
When the VI is initialized, the first listbox will be filled with string phrases. If the user double clicks a cell in the first listbox, the second listbox will be populated by sorting the string phrases from the first listbox to only include phrases starting with same first letter. Next, I want the user to be able to double click one of the phrases in the second listbox or 'say' the phrase into a microphone for speech recognition. The phrase that is double clicked in the second listbox or identified through speech recognized will then be displayed on the main GUI VI.
I've got my main GUI VI working such that the first listbox will populate the second listbox after the user double clicks a cell in the first listbox. I've also got it working such that I'm able to double click the second listbox and display the phrase. I'm using an event structure to do this thanks to some previous help from Dennis shown here. I've also got a decent VI working based on this example that will recognize a phrase spoken based on an array of possible input phrases (grammar builder). So I've got the pieces working independently of each other...
My question is how to have both the speech recognition listening and second listbox waiting for a double click for input at the same time? I have an event structure that waits for a double click to determine which phrase from the second listbox goes in the displayed phrase, I get that part, but how to use an event structure for speech recognition too? Do I need a button to click to start the speech recognition VI? I don't think I want the speech recognition VI running in the background just listening in some endless loop do I?
Thanks,
Mike

Hi,
It is a bit unclear what you are actually after. Yes you could use the speach recognition in a seperate loop running as a daemon / callback or something but what is to stop you coding both bits of code in the same event structure. You could do these in serial / parrallell just by the way you code them using dataflow. It definitiely shouldnt be block diagram space as you can always create sub vi's. You can deal with one of the events then create a user defined event to deal with the next process immediately after the first.
So to re-iterate, i am unsure as to what exactly you are after but i gave you my best guess
Craig
Message Edited by craigc on 26--01-2010 07:56 AM
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Speech recognition works momentarily :(

MAcbookpro 2011
I use speech recognition % times (5 commands, and then it doesnt ecognize any commands and i cant calibrate it (doesnt recognize either). No arrow pointing to mic in speech rec. "bubble" Please help

I have the same issue, except it seems to work just once. After that it is hearing my voice as the "lines are moving upwards" but there are "no arrows point to mic". After logging out and in, it works only once.
The issue is that it stops listening for commands.

Speech recognition freezing

I downloaded the "Serena" voice (from the UK) for my speech recognition system and when I use the voice my speech recognition freezes. When I use the default voices I don't have a problem. How can I make Serena's voice work?

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.

What is Speech Recognition and how do you use it?

Hello, people. I was on my System Preferences and just out of curiosity, I clicked on Speech. Then there was a tab on the right called Speech Recognition. What is Speech Recognition and how do you use it?

When you turn it on the default should be listen only when ESC key is pressed. Hold the ESC key and say, in your normal voice, "show me what to say".
For fun.. say "tell me a joke"
Mac OS X 10.6 Help: About speech recognition
About speech recognitionhttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8355.html
Mac OS X 10.6 Help: Speech Recognition Commands preferences
Speech Recognition Commands preferenceshttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8407.html
Mac OS X 10.6 Help: Speech Recognition Settings preferences
Speech Recognition Settings preferenceshttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8408.html
Mac OS X 10.6 Help: Calibrating speech recognition to your environment
Calibrating speech recognition to your environmenthttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8406.html
Mac OS X 10.6 Help: If the Speech Recognition pane is empty
If the Speech Recognition pane is emptyhttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/8907.html

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!

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.

Latest Firefox FlashPlayer Plugin (14_0_0_179) software exception 0xc0000710 on Windows 7 32-bit when Windows Speech Recognition is enabled and running.

Hi,
Please note that I am reporting a problem happened on a different computer than the one that I am now using to submit this report.
Computer: Dell Optiplex 980
OS: Windows 7 Pro (with all the Windows Updates installed as of Aug 21, 2014)
Browser: Mozilla Firefox 31.0 (most current version as of Aug 21, 2014)
Adobe Flash Player Plugin (for Win7 32-bit, Firefox): the latest FlashPlayerPlugin_14_0_0_179.exe
If I enabled the Win7 Speech Recognition feature, the Firefox FlashPlayer Plugin would generate an Application Error (software exception 0xc0000710) when the FlashPlayer Plugin is *first launch* in a Firefox session.
Subsequent launching of the Flash Player plugin in the same Firefox session would *NOT* trigger the same software exception error again - until another Firefox window is launched.
After the software exception error dialog was dismissed (via the OK button in the dialog), the plugin would go on running without any further problem and the flash video/audio would play correctly.

Please try a clean Flash plugin install: [http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/clean-install-flash-player.html] this error was seen last in version 11.8. Please also make sure that your video drivers are up to date: [https://forums.adobe.com/thread/945765] and [[Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL]]

I'm in the UK and I cannot get the speech recognition to work in Google Translate

I'm in the UK and I cannot get the speech recognition to work in Google Translate.
Anyone else having the same problem, not sure if it's my ipad 2 or the software's problem?
It keeps saying "Speech recognition not available. Check network or try again."
All my other apps work fine through Wifi and and Google Search and Chrome works fine through speech recognition. Strange.

is this a 3rd party application?

Speech Recognition Dictation Stopped Working In Most Applications

In the past I have dictated into the text boxes of many different programs on several computers, but now dictation appears to work only in some programs such as Notepad and Internet Explorer on one of them. Yet for me it is more important that it work
in Windows Live Mail and Miranda IM. EDIT: Attempts to dictate in these programs now produces only "What was that?". Exiting and restarting WSR and WSR Macros does not help.
Simulating keystrokes with the press command and WSR Macros continue to work as expected.

Hi,
According to your description, this problem probably caused by Microphone, it would be better to reinstall its driver for test to fix the problem.
Please check Microphone properties and restore its settings for test.
In addition, Speech Recognition also has multiple settings to improve itself performance, please check if these settings helpful with your problem.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

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