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.
@ptp
Here's the screen grab of the speech properties you asked for. I said a few words when I took the grab to show the mic levels showing that the mic is indeed picking up audio...
@Steve G
Please uncheck the option "Review documents and mail to improve accuracy" Reboot the PC and check ARC.
Made no difference...
Boing!
It was not a random guess .. those three options are related to the Shared Recognizer... so my first guess was a "resource conflict" between application and system... although it's called "shared..."
btw
"Review documents and mail to improve accuracy. "
When this is checked, the speech recognition system will look at your documents and look at your mail and check the vocabulary that’s there, and phrases and words that it may not know, or it will find ones that you know and probably use frequently. And when you do that, the speech recognition system will become more accurate over time because it’ll know what you talk about and what you’re reading.
You may or may not want to do this because of privacy concerns...
Did you installed any Application with (Speech Capabilities: TTS/Speech Recognition)?
SAPI Custom Voices ?
Is Windows 10 Cortana working ?
@ptp.
Lol, I didn't think that was a random guess.
So, to answer your questions...
No, I haven't installed any applications that has/uses Speech or TTS (except ARC of course)
I also have not installed any custom voices
Windows 10 Cortana is working.
Also, thanks for the info about the ""Reviewing Documents..." option. I didn't actually know that it look's at your documents and look at your mail and check's the vocabulary. Interesting.
hi steve
i see by ptp two voices in settingd.while yours has only one,your name? chould there not the name in there from the voice you use?
@Nomad 6R, That is recognition profile, you can have multiple trained and you select one. I'm almost sure that is not the issue.
@Steve G: I think i found the issue, so when you are online ping back the thread. I'll provide more details.
@ptp.
Pinging you back. Now I'm intrigued. If you're about, I'll be online for the next hour.
Steve.