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Change Release Notes
- empty phrase for start/stop SpeechRecognition to avoid randomly picking up false positives. Users can add a phrase themselves if they wish to use this feature
- adjust some GUI objects for more windows 10 default scaling value of 125% dpi compatibility
- camera training objects will not train if another object is detected during training
- prompt to warn for windows 7 OS that is no longer natively supported
- additional exception handling on camera device
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| Feature | ARC FREE |
ARC PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Get ARC for Free | View Plans | |
| Usage | Personal DIY Education |
Personal DIY Education Business |
| Premium support | $14.99/ticket | $9.99/ticket |
| Feature requests | Yes | |
| Early access to new features & fixes | Yes | |
| Simultaneous microcontroller connections* | 1 | 255 |
| Robot skills* | 20 | Unlimited |
| Skill Store plugins* | 1 | Unlimited |
| Cognitive services usage** | 10/day | 6,000/day |
| Auto-positions gait actions* | 40 | Unlimited |
| Speech recongition phrases* | 10 | Unlimited |
| Camera devices* | 1 | Unlimited |
| Vision resolution | max 320x240 | Unlimited |
| Interface builder* | 2 | Unlimited |
| Cloud project size | 128 MB | |
| Cloud project revision history | Yes | |
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** 1,000 per cognitive type (vision recognition, speech recognition, face detection, sentiment, text recognition, emotion detection)
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I fired up ARC today for the first time in 3 weeks, downloaded the 3/20 release and it does not work any more. The first command I give it from my WIndows 10 PC (such as servo set) causes the command to execute, then wifi disconnects. When I reconnect from EZ-B, EZ-B freezes and requires a Task Manager abort. Video is still working!
I know in the past we always were able to start or stop the SR with either a pause or unpause in an EZ Script or with spoken phrases. Thous spoken phrases were set inside the SR control near the top. They have always been there. What's changed and how do I use it?
Thanks in advance.
- empty phrase for start/stop SpeechRecognition to avoid randomly picking up false positives. Users can add a phrase themselves if they wish to use this feature
To mean if you opened ARC prior the 3/20/17 release those fields for "Enable Phrase" and "Disable Phrase" were auto populated with the defaults of "Robot Enable Speech" or "Robot Disable Speech" if you were to open a new project and add the Speech Recognition control, that would be the default.
As of the 3/20/17 release those fields are blank by default for a new project. But if you open a project that already had something set there, nothing would change for your previously saved project.
Edit: I just updated to 3/20/17 and confirm those finding. If you have a project with a previous setting for the enable or disable speech you won't see a change. It's only for new projects where the change is noticeable.