Voice/speech recognition program

Hello,
i can't remove the symbol of the voice recognition program from the desktop/dock. Doubleclick only moves the symbol from the desktop to the dock.
I checked the system setup "speech":
"voice/speech recognition" and "voice over" are deactivated.
How can I remove this? It' s annoying.
Thank you for your reply.

Hello,
I know, this is the "normal" way to remove a symbol from the dock. Using only snow leopard, there is no problem. But: when I start parallels (and windows XP operating system) on my macbook, the symbol appears on the desktop. If I doubleclick, the symbol moves to the Dock. If I click and hold on the Dock icon, there is only 1 option (open speech recognition) instead of 2 options (open and options for example remove from dock).

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Symbol speech recognition program appears on desktop when starting parallels

Hello,
when I start parallels, the symbol of the voice recognition program appears on the desktop. I can't remove this symbol from the desktop. Doubleclick only moves the symbol from the desktop to the dock.
I checked the system setup "speech" of my mac:
"voice/speech recognition" and "voice over" are deactivated. So it seems that the setups of windows XP operating system and/or parallels (working tools) are causing this.
How can I remove this symbol? It' s annoying.
Thank you for your reply.

I found it. The parallels settings are linked with the systemsettings on the Mac. So I looked at: Parallels > settings > enhanced > speech > deactivate spoken commands.

Does anyone know of a good speech recognition program for Mountain Lion?

I purchased a speech recognition program in 2008, MacSpeech Dictate. I only used it for a short period of time, but problems with my hands have started up again. MacSpeech Dictate does not work on OS X 10.8. I wondered if there are any speech recognition programs available for this operating system? i found "Dragon Express" in the App store, but it was rated low, and apparently crashes with 10.8. I cannot beieve that Apple would forget about those with disabilities. I have activated the speech commands window and have experimented with it, but it seems limited for browsing the web. I wondered if there was a way to create my own commands using the Speech Command application in Mountian Lion? Any ideas anyone? Have I missed something with Speech Commands on 10.8?

The built in dictation is pretty good. The only real downside is that the conversion is done server-side so you have to dictate, then wait a bit, and then dictate, and then wait a bit.
The gold standard is dragon dictate. I think it's a few hundred bucks but it's fantastic software. I belive the Nuance engine underneath it is used by the Mountain Lion dictation feature, though.

Voice/Speech Recognition

We are volunteers trying to add a web Speech Recognition
feature to help language learners practice their word
pronunciations. Our website is www.ElGuides.cc. Please give
recommendations on workable plug-ins for DW CS3. (Voice Web Studio
1.1.1 has not opened -- Adobe Extension Manager requesting DW MX
and no help from developer yet.) Thank you, EL92103

You're not going to find a Dreamweaver "plug-in" for a fringe
piece of software. You'd be better off finding an application that
works on your hosting platform, and then following the instructions
that come with it.
Try searching
http://www.hotscripts.com for
something that is suitable.
Also, don't repost the same question when no one answers
you.

Can you use the browser and search the web by utilizing a speach recognition program instead of the mouse & keyboard ?

''locking as a duplicate of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/972710''
I would like to know if Mozilla's ( Firefox Browser) can integrate with and utilize a speech recognition program, I would like to have control of and be able to use all of the browsers functions while navigating the web using voice commands (only) ,instead of having to use a mouse & keyboard. If the browser does have that capability, are there any issues I need to be aware of and are there any tutorials or web pages Mozilla can suggest that will help with this.
Thanks in advance for answering my questions and for the information forthcoming!
Frank G

What is this speech recoginaziom program called? I need to know if I am to help you. Thanks Nathan.

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

Null pointer when trying to initialise speech recognition

Hi all,
I am attempting to utilise the JSAPI for a project for display at my Uni that utilises freeTTS and also some Java speech recognition. Through the tutorials online (such as the Hello World) I have built my speech recognizer but as I try to allocate() for the speech recogniser the program gives me a null pointer.
The grammar file that I load into the file reader exists and I do not get a file not found exception. Can anyone see a blindingly obvious error that I am missing?
Code below. The rec.allocate() (third line after the try... is where i am getting my null pointer from.
Cheers
Mark
public BigEars(SpeakEasy gui){
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Hi dheeraj_chd,
I never got a reply to this so to move forward I actually incorporated the Sphinx4 speech recognition program into my project. I do not know if this is any help to you but I got it up and running OK with it.
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/sphinx4/
I hope this helps. It does dramatically increase the size of the application you are writing but at least it works!
Cheers
Mark

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.

Speech recognition instructions

Does Apple have a knowledge base article, or something, that gives decent instructions on how to make use of the Speech Recognition program? I am not referring to Spoken Commands such as Open Window, etc.
Helps seems to be pretty much useless in this area.

Hi, Ari,
Sorry for the late reply, but the discussions list didn't notify me of your post.
ariel s wrote:
Hi snowshed,
Are you referring to Dictation? There is some information about that here:
Mac Basics: Dictation
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5449
Otherwise, the Speech Recognition information I can find is largely about Spoken Commands.
I hope this helps!
- Ari
I am referring to Dictation. Everyone else seems to call that feature Speech Recognition. Guess Apple just had to be different.
The link is exactly what I was looking for, but hadn't found. Like you, all I was finding was about Spoken Commands.
I wish I could say I was going to use Dictation for a project I'm working on, but it doesn't measure up to what I can do with Windows 7 in a virtual machine. You just can't have everything, I guess.
Thanks for the link.
Ken

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.
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http://lifehacker.com/software/speech-recognition/hack-attack-make-your-macs-spe ech-recognition-work-for-you-215764.php

Good voice recognition program needed.

I am loosing the use of my fingers and typing has been reduced to the use of the ole two finger trick. I do realize that some of you only know this way of typing but when you learn to type using all 20 fingers and 18 quit it is a challenge.
A friend uses a PC and swears by MS Word 2011 and using that voice recognition. He demonstrated how accurate the transcription is.
I purchased Office 2011 for Mac figuring it would have this same tool. I can't find it.
Any one been able to use Word 2011 for Mac? In the Mac Preferences in Dictation & Speech, when I turn Dictation "On", a dropdown window says "When you dictate text, what you say is sent to Apple to be converted to text. To help your Mac recognize what you're saying, other information is sent as well, such as your contacts."
What is this about? Is this a dictation setting or a voice recorder? Contacts?
Does this mean that Word 2011 for Mac doesn't have a voice recognition like the PC version? Or does it?
Any one help me with this?
Andy

Hi Andy - Unfortunately, there is no speech recognition for Microsoft Word. Like Rudegar mentions above, the best dictation software out there for the Mac is DragonDictate.
http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/by-product/dragon-for-mac/dragon-dictate/i ndex.htm.
I use it all the time, in fact I am using it right now. It's a fairly expensive program but not only does it dictate your typing, but you can also have it open up programs and pretty much do anything you want by speaking into your microphone.
Not because you have a Mac, there is also the ability like you mentioned to use Apple's dictation software. Once you have turned on dictation like it looks like you have, by double tapping the command button on your keyboard a little microphone will pop up and you can start dictating. Then when you're done dictating you can hit the command key again to have it stop and type in the text your dictated.
Unlike DragonDictate, the Apple method is free but there are some limitations. First, there is a limitation to how much you can say before you have to have it type out the words. You also do not see the words as you're speaking them until you hit the command key to end your dictation.
But for the price of free, it is a very handy method to type. I would give that a try first, and then go to DragonDictate if you want to have more features.
Me know if I can help with anything else!

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!

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Hi Sattu,
Below is an example program on Voice Recognition. It is an awesome example that uses MSAgent (Or Dragon) to do voice recognition. This example should give you a good starting point.
Voice Recognition in LabVIEW
I hope it helps
Feroz
National Instruments

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.

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.

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