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| Thread ID: 66475 | 2006-02-24 09:04:00 | Problem with speech recognition | shroeder (6761) | Press F1 |
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| 433372 | 2006-02-24 09:04:00 | Running XP SP2 on an HP Tablet I've tested my Headset microphone from the Control Panel, Sounds and Audio Devices and it works fine. I've also tested it in the Sound Recorder; works excellently there too. Here's my problem: getting it to actually work with Windows XP Speech Recognition. I've been getting these fun :waughh: error messages when I try to open Speech in Control Panel, or try to configure my microphone: "The required task cannot be carried out because the necessary engine could not be created. Please select a different engine and/or a different audio device." "Could not initialize volume meter. Please select a different audio imput device." "The selected profile could not be used. Please select a different profile or create a new one, and/or check your audio devices." "The microphone wizard failed to initialize." "The requested action cannot be carried out because a speech engine is currently in use. Please shut down any speech applications and try again." "An exception occurred while trying to run “shell.dll,Control_RunDLL “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Speech\sapi..cpl”,Speech”" Please, PLEASE :help: ME! All advice much appreciated |
shroeder (6761) | ||
| 433373 | 2006-02-24 10:14:00 | Does the microphone require you to install any software first prior using it? (highly unlikely) Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 433374 | 2006-02-24 18:25:00 | No special software required and the microphone also works in everything except XP speech recognition. Also the built in microphone has the same issue Thanks |
shroeder (6761) | ||
| 433375 | 2006-02-24 19:04:00 | Is a version of Office, which uses Speech recognition installed? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 433376 | 2006-02-24 20:21:00 | Your problem is the Microsoft speech engine (I assume you are using SAPI 5.5). Regardless of what other problems you have, when you do finally get it to work it is rubbish. Spent last Nov and Dec testing it with kiwi accents and it fails miserably. IBM Via Voice is far better but the best out there at the moment is Dragon. | allanl (1957) | ||
| 433377 | 2006-02-24 20:28:00 | The MS Office XP/2003 speech recognition isnt too bad. It works fine. Even Opera's voice option works fine. Dragon and Via voice arent exactly cheap either. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 433378 | 2006-02-24 21:02:00 | The MS Office XP/2003 speech recognition isnt too bad. It works fine. Even Opera's voice option works fine. Dragon and Via voice arent exactly cheap either. I have the XP Office set up. It works quite well. If yo Google yo will find Free versions. I did not have much luck with them The Office is the best of what I have tried. I assume that, as SG said, that Dragon & Via are better. But then they should be for the price. I wonder if they have trial versions that you could try first ?? PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 433379 | 2006-02-24 21:04:00 | If you got it to work then you must have good tones! I found that for SR engines, what you pay for is what you get. SAPI was always just an add on, MS are reputed to have spent 100 million on the SR engine for Vista. Maybe this time they will get it right. How about PC World doing a speech recognition test one day? |
allanl (1957) | ||
| 433380 | 2006-02-25 01:11:00 | Does anyone have first hand experience of 'Throat Mics' ? PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 433381 | 2006-02-25 08:41:00 | Is a version of Office, which uses Speech recognition installed? Yepper - Latest version is running :) WOW I thought, lots of replies - There's bound to be an answer in there somewhere... Well lotsa replies about speech recognition but nothing about my problem... :lol: ;) :D Oh well... glad I started something - By the way, I agree, how bout some tests on speech recognition! Thanks to all |
shroeder (6761) | ||
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