Change Release Notes
Happy New Year!
New EZ-Script Command: WaitForSpeech() will wait the specified number of seconds for one of the specified words/phrases to be detected by the speech recognition
MP3 Trigger will not unpause the speech recognition control if it was already paused before playing audio
speech recognition culture is dynamically detected, but prefers English US Culture to be installed. The Speech Recognition only supports a select number of cultures - that is an issue you can take up with Microsoft
. Check the Debug Control for more information when loading Speech Recognition.
[feature] WaitForSpeech( timeOut Seconds, phrases ) . Pauses and waits for one of the specified phrases to be spoken. . Returns the phrase that was spoken. . Will return "timeout" if no word is detected in the specified timeout length. . Example: WaitForSpeech(30, "Yes", "No") . Example: $value = WaitForSpeech(30, "Yes", "No") [/feature]
This example can be found in Examples -> Functions -> WaitForSpeech The code below will ask the user a YES or NO question if they would like to know today's date. If the timeout is exceeded (10 seconds), then the script will repeat.
:START
SayWait("Would you like to know todays date?")
$response = WaitForSpeech(10, "Yes", "No")
if ($response = "Yes")
Say("Today's date is $date")
Halt()
elseif ($response = "No")
Say("Okay, I will keep it a secret")
Halt()
else
SayWait("Hello, is anyone there?")
goto(START)
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Happy New Year to you DJ
Ahh! DJ, your amazing! Thanks for this. I never expected you to do this enhancement so quickly. This will be so nice to have!
Just yesterday I had a few friends over to show off B9 and thought I had the Speech Recognition pauesd. There was lots going on with the group and I was fiddling with some internal settings and all of the sudden he rotated at the waist when he thought he heard a command. He almost ripped out some of his own wires along with my hand. I know I should of had him powered down but I thought I could just make a quick adjustment on the fly.
This is so welcomed and a well received New Years present! Now I need to figure out how to use this. What fun!
Thanks again, Dave Schulpius
Happy New Years right back at ya!
DJ great work like always and happy new years so far some of the scripts i been playing with not too hard and examples makes it a little easy too
wow that is cool
Awesome.... it is like you were reading my mind.
I was struggling with the need to write a script to limit the possible voice commands my bot had to choose from.
You've saved me the hard work!
Happy New Year from New Zealand
Sadly I can't get this new function to work for me
and I was so excited. Been trying all afternoon but whatever I try, I keep getting the same behaviour as always. If I run a MP3 Trigger file that I've set a timeout for, the Speech Recognition will be paused for that amount of time (as it should be). But if I next want to pause the SR indefinitely and use the Disable box inside and at the top of the SR panel it will only stay paused for the amount of time stated in the earlier command. It also seems that the New EZ-Script Command: WaitForSpeech() is completely overridden by any MP3 Trigger SR function. No matter how many MS pause is stated there is only a few MS timeout for the new command when a MP3 Trigger SR function has been used before.
Sorry, Dave
Hey Dave... Have you tried saving your file, closing ARC and then restarting the software? The timer function in WaitforSpeech() did not work for me until I started fresh using the example DJ gave us, saved his file and then reopened the software and added the script to my project.
Dave, all tests are successful. Review your project