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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / Re: Mic stops working after Dolby Digital passthrough begins

« on: October 06, 2010, 08:43:13 PM »

Interesting.

The default recording device wasn't being changed, or it didn't look like it. I could tell, though, that the usb cam with mic started picking up the sound instead of the one that should be.

Without the usb cam hooked up it was still cutting the sound from the microphone. Maybe it was switching to a device on the sound card or tv tuner with nothing connected to it.

I disabled all recording devices except the microphone I want to use but still no dice.

Weird enough, I tried it out today and for the first time it's not giving me any problems. Maybe it just needed a reboot since disabling all recording devices except that one as I didn't test it out too much after doing so.

Fingers crossed.

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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / Re: Mic stops working after Dolby Digital passthrough begins

« on: September 25, 2010, 02:48:12 PM »

"having sound recorder running (recording) allows Vox to stay connected (when you start playing a movie with digital output), but if sound recorder is not recording, then Vox loses its connection to the mic?"

This is true, when using the digital out of the sound card.

But, if I set my sound output to the ati hdmi I don't have this problem. That is with the mic still hooked up to the sound card.

Turning Vox off and back on and/or restarting Vox does not recover the microphone until after I stop the movie.

Also, I tested out a usb webcam that has a microphone and it does not have this problem, but it isn't a great microphone.

So, for the time being , I just have it set to open sound recorder minimized when I tell it to open media center and to close when I tell it to close. Not ideal, but I don't even notice it.

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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / Mic stops working after Dolby Digital passthrough begins

« on: September 18, 2010, 09:16:26 PM »

The first microphone I bought to test out vox commando is a cheap $8 microphone I bought at a big grocery store. It works surprisingly well. It plugs into the 3.5mm microphone port on my sound card.

I am using a pci soundcard with a c-media chip and the open source cmediadrivers to run it. These drivers allow for bit perfect passthrough of Dolby Digital, DTS and PCM signals.

In testing vox commando I setup a command to go to my movie collection in windows media center. It worked perfectly. I went to the dvd library and started playing a movie with Dolby Digital. Then, I noticed the microphone was no longer working and vox was not hearing anything I was saying.

In short, my microphone stops working when playing Dolby Digital or DTS and also after waking my computer from sleep, which may be another problem.

Right now I am not sure if this is a limitation of my sound card itself, the open source driver I am using or the simple fact that I am bypassing windows audio processing using Dolby Digital Passthrough.

The microphone does still work when using Wasapi in Foobar2000, which bypasses Windows audio processing and the microphone still works with Vox Commando running so I'm almost leaning towards the problem being my sound card and/or drivers.

A USB microphone might solve this problem if that is the case.

Has anyone else run into this problem?

EDIT: I just tested out this scenario with windows sound recorder running and it had no problems. I tried it with Vox and sound recorder running and vox continued to recognize what I was saying, though with some problems due to the sound of the movie. Hmmm...This is more of a bug report now.

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VoxCommando Basics and Core Features / Vox and Foobar2000

« on: September 18, 2010, 08:51:20 PM »

Have you thought about Foobar?

I know a lot of people use Foobar2000 for its ability to playback bit perfect audio using Wasapi or Asio.

There may be an HTTP control similar to what is used for controlling WMC as I have found a download for one and documentation on another one.

If you would like I can post links to what I have found.

Also, I know there are some keyboard shortcuts for Foobar2000 to control play, pause etc. so there is already the ability to control basic functions.

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WMC / Amazing

« on: September 18, 2010, 08:42:18 PM »

I have to say I am very impressed with this software. I have tested it out with WMC and EventGhost and it works better than I ever thought it would with a cheap $8 microphone.

Are you planning on adding more control to WMC? The ability to request a movie would be awesome.

Also, I have tried setting up a command to queue a song to the playlist using the music-que command and also the queueaudio-song command but I can't seem to get them to work. I can't remember exactly what the problem was but I think I got a similar one close to working properly and it just didn't seem to understand me very well compared to the ones you have setup for Artist and Album. I noticed you actually setup a script for them. They work so well. Are you planning on adding any more like these?

I noticed it does have trouble recognizing some band names like "Limp Bizkit" for example. It never understands that.

I use WMC for music, DVDs and recording live TV so if you need someone to test I can help.