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.
Thanks for the info about the W3 Alan. Lol, yeah I did find that out yesterday when I tried to do the Windows 10 upgrade. Interesting to know why it didn't work though. Still, I'm quite happy to use 8.1 on it for now.
I'll take you advice and hold off on the laptop upgrade for now in case ptp comes back to me.
Thanks.
At this point I'd back up everything get copies of all your wanted installed programs, passwords and licenses and reinstall win 10. However that's a lot of work and you're going to have to reinstall all your apps and reset them up. Maybe the other "experts" have a better solution. Maybe figure out what is missing and install a different program that has the same component that's missing in your system. Just a thought. I'm now out of ideas. good luck and I'll be watching. This may help me someday. tired
EDIT: looks like I'm late to the party again. You guys are ahead of me as usual. lol.
@Dave.
Late to the party alright, but if you've bought some booze with ya, it's all good buddy, lol.
Seriously though, I am still kinda considering a full Windows re-instal. It wouldn't be the first one I've done so I know what to expect/do and have a large portable drive ready use for the backup. It's just so time consuming as you know yourself for something that may or may not fix the problem. Anyway, watch this space...
I am sure you have thought of this, but if you do the re-install, install and test ARC before any other applications to rule out some incompatibility. For instance, there is a known issue with GoPro software and virtually all other video software including ARC. Could be something relevant that is breaking Sapi.
Alan
Thanks Alan, good point. Thanks for the heads up.
@Steve G,
This is a snippet of my (control panel/SAPI) Speech settings:
I've highlighted the sound level, when you speak check if the sound level is showing up, if not check the microphone levels.
If still not working, go to windows 10 speech recognition settings, and start the setup from the begin.
recheck (SAPI) Speech settings.
if still not working please post a print screen of your SAPI speech settings.
@ptp
Thanks for getting back to me buddy.
I've had the Windows speech properties open a quite a few times during my tests to double check mic levels, and where I've been changing the language repeatedly from between English-US and English-UK. The visual sound level that you mentioned in "speech properties" does bounce up and down when I speak. I will do a screengrab of this tomorrow.
When you say "post a print screen of your SAPI speech settings" (unless you mean do a screen grab of "speech Properties" ), can you give me a quick "how to" of exactly what you mean or want to see to get to the SAPI speech settings, just so I (and any new commers) know we're on the same page of what to look for. Thanks buddy, and much appreciated.
post a pic similar to mine.
I used the windows program "snipping tool".