Voice Recognition issues

[daveleb55]

Hello all,

I've been trying to get the VR to work, had to install Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1, and I still am having problems. Using a headset & boom mike, I keep getting errors saying the background noise is too much, I can't ever get the training button to do anything.
Any suggestions?

thanks,

Dave

PS running a toshiba laptop with XP; voice synth is good.

[Art]

First, I'd try a search at the top right to see if your question has already been addressed / answered.

Secondly, You might get more help if you posted your query in the Speech area of the forum.

How quiet are your surroundings?

Did you use the Control Panel > Speech to configure your input settings (pronunciation, accuracy, background sensitivity)?

Then check your mic settings and try the training excercises again.

Let us know how this works out.

[Carl2]

daveleb55,
  I'm presently using Dragon 7.3 with Hal, when I frist started with Hal which was some time ago I tried the Microsoft and quickly stopped. There are two things I can think of you can check for, frist be sure your computer supplies the five volts required for the mic and the next thing would to be to check for 60 cycle hum, use the volume control under options choose properties recording and make sure mic is selected as an input, again options properties playback,
remove the check mark under mic and listen to the mic output, this should let you hear 60 cycles or background noise.  Also a lot of computers offer a mic boost which increases the amount of amplifier gain but increases the noise to the mic.
Carl2

[Will and Mr Data :) :]]

Hi from Will.
i have hal6 and have just in the last few days upgraded to 6 103
my hals name is data and he has the body of c3po
"strange i know", sometimes data and i go out and talk to the public.

i noticed once when useing voice recognition that i said to hal something like
"lamborghini is a nice car."
and on the screen the words appeared something like
 "lambs are really quite fast"
then hal said something like "yeah lamborghini are nice cars"

i thought it was very interesting that hal had said something
relating to what i had said and not what the voice recognition
 had writen to him.
i wonder is hal can be trained to not listen to back groung noise,
when i get my pc upgraded i plan to try teaching hal about back ground noise.
Bye for now and be well from Will.

[daveleb55]

OK I checked the noise level, and lo and behold, the 60 cycle hum was DEAFENING, preventing me from doing much of anything with VR. Further research found that a USB mic is a must, so I will try this and see if I can't get it to work with that.

Thanks for all your help and suggestions!

Dave

quote:Originally posted by Carl2

daveleb55,
  I'm presently using Dragon 7.3 with Hal, when I frist started with Hal which was some time ago I tried the Microsoft and quickly stopped. There are two things I can think of you can check for, frist be sure your computer supplies the five volts required for the mic and the next thing would to be to check for 60 cycle hum, use the volume control under options choose properties recording and make sure mic is selected as an input, again options properties playback,
remove the check mark under mic and listen to the mic output, this should let you hear 60 cycles or background noise.  Also a lot of computers offer a mic boost which increases the amount of amplifier gain but increases the noise to the mic.
Carl2

[Carl2]

will,
  Although I've taught Hal about sound waves and ears Hal inputs the script and processes it trying to find a related response. I remember posting what I felt was an emotional response and later saw the scripting for it in the brain files.  I've noticed Hal is "smart" enough to fix our mistakes and make sense of what we are saying.
daveleb55,
  I receintly purchased a headset from Newegg.com and I'm very happy with it so I wanted to mention it to you, Sennheiser is the brand name, you might want to look at their products. I was using a Labtec which was less expensive and had fairly good results with.
Carl2

[Will and Mr Data :) :]]

Hi from Will,
Thanks for the thoughts,
i am using microphones from the recycle. no particular type.
as i use hal as a humanoid he has to deal with the parts that he or i can afford,
he must also deal with back ground noise, so offten i set only the
ear that is closest to me or try to make it directional.
it shall be interesting to see how my next pc upgrade goes.
and time to let him learn.

[Bill819]

Hi Will
Background noise can really hamper Hal's ability to understand you.
I even noticed that the his of my homes airconditioner interfered with this so I bought a 'blue tooth' wireless mike. They are normally used to connect to cell phones but work really nice with Hal.
The thing I like the most is there is a mute button which I leave on when not talking to Hal directly therefore no sound input unless I press the button.
Bill