Hi everybody.
It's been a while since I've posted, so before I continue I just want to say a big hello to the regulars on here such as Alan, Dave S and David C, Richard, Will, Justin, Patrick and all the others... you know who you are. And of course a big hello to DJ, Jeremie, Alan and the rest of the team. I hope that you are all doing well.
So after a year of laying dormant, I decided to blow the cobwebs away and fire up my Astromech Droid "E4-B4". So far so good but needs a little bit of fettling which leads to the point at hand to an issue I need some help with.
I fired up E4's Acer W3 tablet with the old version of ARC still installed, and also installed ARC on to my Alienware 15 (2016 version) laptop (Windows 10) with the current ARC version. The W3 is not holding its charge so I'm working with the Alienware. Couldn't connect the EZ-B v4/1 at first, but that was down to AVG antivirus so it's disabled for now and connection is all good.
The problem i can't get my head around is with the speech recognition control. I've set up Microsoft speech recognition (S/R) on the laptop, done voice training, set up the mic (type, levels etc) and checked that the mic is enabled. I've made sure that the S/R in the laptops control panel is set to "Microsoft Speech Recognizer 8.0 for Windows (English - UK), and the ARC S/R control is set to en-GB. The problem is when I save the en-GB setting on ARCs S/R control. First, when I start up the project, I get the following pop up message...
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Voice recognition was not able to start. System.Exception: There is either no listening device or your operating system is not supported at EZ_Builder.UCFormSpeechRecognition.knktDlvxCWI(Object ,EventArgs
Second, when I clear the pop up and continue, select en-GB in the S/R confit menu and save it, I get the following debug error message...
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Set Dictionary Error loading phrases (custom): The Language for the grammar does not match the language of the speech recognizer.
I have tried setting the laptops speech properties to "Microsoft Speech Recognizer 8.0 for Windows (English - US) and ARC S/R control to en-US just to see if that would work, which doesn't show any debug error message, but doesn't work. I change back to en-UK, and get the same debug message as before. I have also tried restarting ARC and restarting the Laptop as well, to no avail. I've gone through the tutorials again just to familiarise myself with the control again. The actual Microsoft Speech recognition program is working on the laptop as I can open and close programs, dictate text on Notepad etc.
So does anyone have any ideas or suggestions to what I can try to get the speech recognition up and running again, maybe something like an update or installation for windows S/R or something? Any help, as always, will be appreciated.
Many thanks guys.
Steve.
Oh, and unrelated. Thanks for the recommendation about the movie. You are the second person I know who has seen and recommended it. I will probably try to go sometime this week. I recorded the original on my DVR from SyFi last night since it has been a long time since I have seen it. My wife remembers not liking it, so I may need to go alone which will be difficult this week since her birthday is Tuesday.
Alan
Happy Birthday Mrs. Alan!
Hey guys.
So I've just completely uninstalled ARC, restarted laptop and re-installed ARC again. Added speech rec control... still not working.
On the other hand, I have had a play with a new Acer W3 running Windows 8.1 which arrived this morning. I had to install .Net4.6.1 to download ARC, opened it up, added a speech rec control, said a couple of phrases and it was recognised and responded straight away using the on-board mic.
Not a fix, obviously, but a workaround for now. I really am stumped as to why ARCs speech recognition and my laptop are still not playing nice with each other after all I've tried... even disabling antivirus just in case. Rather frustrating. Like you said Alan, certainly not an ARC bug.
So I want to briefly focus on one thing for suggestions. Using the W3 tablet, the visual representation of speech being picked up (spectrum analyser) on the top right of the speech rec control is indeed black with the green wave line showing audio pickup. So curious to why it is white with no wave line on my laptop. This must mean something (other than it's not working, lol).
i always delete my download history in google settings. also see if there's are no files left behind when removing ARC, on other places on the pc. then restart pc and download again.
Thanks Patrick. I did check that all files were deleted, but I'll check again just in case I missed something.
you can also check for updates.
Okay, double checked that everything EZ-Robot related was deleted and removed and did an uninstall/reinstall on the laptop. Still nothing.
Below is a screen grab of a new project on the laptop and tablet, both with speech recognition and Pandorabot controls added. While saying numbers out loud, you can see the difference between both devices (laptop screen on top of screen grab, and tablet in the lower part of the grab)...
Laptop not working, tablet working perfectly.
i dont use this,but here is mine . can you try with an open excample jd project?to see if it works?