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General Discussion / Some ideas

« on: August 14, 2010, 09:55:44 PM »

Hi,

after some more experiments with Voxcommando I have some questions / suggestions. I use version 0.791

- Would it not make sense to allow actions ({1} etc.) in the field "max loops"?
  You can pass the number how often you want to scroll (for example "scroll right x times")

- Is the field "MustConfirm" active? Nothing happens if activated.

- Right mouseclick - execute isn't working. Or am I too stupid?

- It would be much easier if you can disable a group or command with right mouseclick - disable (or so).
  (I do not mean the possibility with "disablegroup:nameofgroup", this is a beginning, but not very practical for me) 

- Can you make it possible to change the TTS engine? I've installed free ScanSoft Steffi and can use ist with Eventghost.
  Unfortunately you can not select them in the Windows7 own TTS but maybe it works even with Voxcommando.

- Is it actually possible to select more than one language for speech recognition?
  I have german version of Windows7 and a lot of words we use are colloquial English.
  It is for example almost impossible to use the Search for Artist or Album in XBMC since almost every artist is in English.
  Perfect would be if we could choose what text recognition is active (if more than 1 possible) or if the system recognizes
  English words themselves and use english speech recognition then.

- The use of XBCM Album oder Artist Grammer is not yet solved perfectly in my opinion.
  Starting VoxCommando takes a long time, cause I have a fairly large music collection.
  Is it not possible to determine the collected data into a database-file?

- Will it be possible to use the search even for movies?


More is not once occurred to me. 

Great piece of software!

Siutsch.

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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / TerraTec iQuader - boundary layer microphone

« on: August 11, 2010, 08:16:35 AM »

Hi,

after some days oft testing I can say that speech recognition works good with a TerraTec iQuader.
It's a boundary layer microphone actually made for conferences or interviews, but I thought it is also suitable as a room mic,
because I really do not want to sit in the living room with a headset! 

The normal price is 249 € but I have found it used (but it was new) on amazon.de for 35 € (plus delivery) and at this price I thought, I can test ist. 

I sit about 4.5 meters away from TV and currently the microphone has the same distance.
It is connected via USB to an Acer Revo 3610 with Win7 x64.

As long as it is quiet and no film or music is playing, the recognition is quite good, better than I had hoped.
When the ambient noise is too loud, because, for example music plays, the voice recognition works then unfortunately only very poorly.

I already ordered a 5m USB extension cable to bring the microphone closer to me, the recognition will be safe even better, I hope, I will report then.

An idea:
It would be really cool if you can eliminate the sound which comes from the pc, which is also recorded by the microphone, by "suppression of ambient noise" to improve speech recognition (I hope you understand, what I mean).
But this is certainly very complicated, I think ... 

I look forward to the new version ...

Siutsch.