Hal Assistant

[kstout]

I installed the full version so I could take advantage of speech recogniction. I am using XP plenty of RAM and disk space.

I have trained MS speech rec. English 5.1

The application is not roconizing what is being said. Is there some major secret in getting Hal to recognize speech?

I followed the instructions to a T

Karen


Karen

[Hunter]

I will install the upgrade as soon I get it.  I am also using an XP with 128 Mg Ram and .9Gig processor.  I use speach recognition with my emails and Word 2002 when background noise is low.  After about 2 hours training I am geting about 85 to 95 percent accuracy.  XP uses the Microsoft English ASR Version 5 engine.  Are you using the one provided with the upgrade or the one built into XP?  If you are not using a headset microphone I suggest you get one.  It realy helps.  Here is a sample from the XP speach recogniton software.

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This is a simple test On the speech to text software and should give an indication of the accuracy level on this system.  
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In the above example the words "ON" should have been "OF".  I have company and the TV is on in the other room.  Background noise is higher than it should be.  I don't know if the Microsoft engine is compatible with Ultra Hal Assistant.  I still need to do a lot more training.  You must also speak the same way when dictating as you do when training.  That was my biggest problem.  When I first started I got a lot of garbage.  Common words are translated with good accuracy but names etc cause a lot of errors.

Hope this helps.  Let me know how it goes.