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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / Re: Receiver microphone (Amazingly small, very powerful)

« on: March 19, 2015, 08:06:51 AM »

Yes, I'm using a very similar one from my Denon amp, while I'm still experimenting with VC. It doesn't work at a distance though, will only work maximum of around 5" away from mouth. I have mic input on the PC turned up to maximum.

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Bug Reports / Re: VC does not "hear" while Windows does

« on: February 06, 2015, 09:32:40 AM »

I have to say I regularly experience this too. I'm using a normal microphone plugged into the PC's Mic In socket.

When in standby, it usually takes several attempts to wake VC up.  It just doesn't seem to hear.  The Windows mic level meter is continuously moving but VC's meter isn't.

I'll check resource issues but the PC should be fine I think.

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J River Media Center / Re: Play Album - tracks not added to playlist in track number order

« on: January 23, 2015, 02:44:26 PM »

Yes, that worked. Thank you. 

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J River Media Center / Play Album - tracks not added to playlist in track number order

« on: January 22, 2015, 07:38:30 PM »

The supplied Play Album command, which uses the JRiver.SearchPlay action, doesn't necessarily add the tracks to the playlist in the correct order. So I've tried adding a sort modifier according to the JRiver search expression language as follows:

[Album]=[{1}] ~sort=[Disc #],[Track #]

But it doesn't work. Any ideas?

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Bug Reports / Re: Unbale to differentiate Invona voices with the same base name

« on: January 21, 2015, 05:07:02 PM »

Ah, thank you, I hadn't realised the SetVoiceName action looked at the complete voice description, I assumed it was just going to use the display name of the voice.  So the only problem is being able to set the default voice via the plugin options, which doesn't matter any more to me as I had intended to create different listen commands for the different voices anyway so I can switch between them by calling their name Brian, Geraint, etc, and they respond with "Yes?". My computer has a personality disorder, lol! I just didn't how how to differentiate between them, without using the ordinal number, if both Geraints had the same display name.

I had intended the Welsh one to reply to commands like "Translate {an English phrase}" or other situations where I might want a Welsh reply or a Welsh phrase as part of a reply.

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Bug Reports / Re: Unbale to differentiate Invona voices with the same base name

« on: January 21, 2015, 02:36:00 PM »

The other strange thing is that when I select one of the voices in the TTS plugin, sample speech is played (and both voices talk in Welsh when one should be English, as noted above) but the sample text is German! They both say

"Hello (The LL is pronounced as in Welsh), mein name ist Geraint".

One should say "Hello (LL pronounced as in English), my name is Geraint (pronounced in English)" and the other one should say "Hello (LL is pronounced as in Welsh), fy enw i ydy Geraint".

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Bug Reports / Unbale to differentiate Invona voices with the same base name

« on: January 21, 2015, 02:29:26 PM »

Using VC 2.1.3.3

I have bought two Ivona TTS voices, Geraint (English Welsh voice) and GeraintCY (Welsh voice). The Welsh one has the CY suffix in Ivona's catalogue and the installer filename has CY too, but after installation they both appear as Geraint in VC's voices list in the TTS plugin.

I can mouse-over the icons for each voice and it shows the correct description for each (English Welsh or Welsh) but whichever one I select for use with VC it always uses the Welsh one, which is the one I installed last.

In Windows settings, I can select them individually. Windows lists the full, correct description in the pull-down list. I suspect VC is just using the display name to select the voice - can it use the full description instead?

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J River Media Center / Targetting a zone with plugin commands

« on: December 10, 2014, 06:28:38 PM »

Is it possible to put some sort of zone parameter on the plugin methods, e.g. JRiver.PlayPause? I think all of the MCWS commands accept a zone parameter and it would be nice to be able to pass that without converting all the commands to a Raw command.

My thinking is to be able to control multiple zones without changing the currently active zone on the server. Thinking far ahead, I'm envisaging a microphone in several rooms each connected to a specific instance of VC and controlling one specific zone, set by a variable on launch of VC.