The speech recognition skill in ARC has an autopause feature to prevent the robot from continuously listening for commands. This feature helps conserve system resources and prevent unintended actions. However, if you want to disable the autopause feature, you can do so by adjusting the settings of the speech recognition skill.

To disable autopause in the speech recognition skill, follow these steps:

1. Open ARC and navigate to the project that contains the speech recognition skill.
2. Double-click on the speech recognition skill to open its configuration window.
3. In the configuration window, locate the "Autopause" option and uncheck the box next to it.
4. Click on the "Save" button to apply the changes.

By disabling autopause, the speech recognition skill will continuously listen for commands without pausing. Keep in mind that this may increase system resource usage and may result in unintended actions if the robot misinterprets background noise as commands.

There is no autopause checkbox.  It doesn't exist.

What do you mean by auto pause?

Thank you for responding.

By "autopause" I mean that speech recognition returns to paused after each action.  In thinking about it, it seems that the speech recognition skill opens defaulted to paused, and after an action is completed, it returns to paused.

The EZ-InMoov Robot Basic skill doesn't do that, so I was struggling to get the speech recognition skill to always be unpaused after each action.  Is there some global setting I don't know about?

I don't see any hidden scripting.

Many thanks

Make a script with - controlCommand("Speech Recognition", "PauseOff")

or just use the:

You have a few threads on this topic so I’m a bit confused of which one to respond to lol. Yesterday i responded to another one of your threads on this subject. I’m on my phone and can’t look for it so you’ll have to find it. Essentially the answer is to use the Pro version of ARC because you’re a pro user. You’re currently using the Free version

Ah this is the other one mentioned: https://synthiam.com/Community/General/Moving-Jaw-Servo-from-Audio-File-21684

:) that’ll solve all your issues.

I added a second mp3 file to soundboard, and I was very surprised to find that it didn't result in speech recognition automatically pausing after that second mp3 file played, so I deleted and re-added the first mp3 file in soundboard, and speech recognition does now not pause after either file in soundboard plays. I guess there was some script (or other) corruption happening that caused speech recognition to pause automatically after the first mp3 file (when originally and solely inserted into soundboard) played.

So the problem is solved.

FYI, I noticed that if I try to trigger a sound file to play with just part of an expression, I have to glottal stop (i.e. pause) before that part of the expression to get the associated mp3 file to play.  I am now entering the whole expression to avoid needing to use a glottal stop.

For example, if the speech recognition expression is "How do I experience true love?", I have to enter the whole expression in the speech recognition skill to get the sound file to work when speaking the expression normally.  If however I just enter "true love,"  I have to say "How do I experience (pause) true love" to get the sound file to play. I thought you might find this interesting.

This glottal stop issue was also the case for me when I first tried speech recogniton using a standalone board called "SpeakUp" from Mikroeletronica (before finding EZ-Robot).

Many thanks for everyone's help.

Bob Mahoney (Bobarebob)