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Zabaware Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: lightspeed on August 12, 2015, 10:51:06 pm
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i see we have some new members on here using hal and learning about hal , for those that are trying to use hal with voice recognition , their are some important things to do like using a good bluetooth mic and headphone set regular ones will work but the type with noise canceling will work better they filter out back ground noises .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-aFbpmIIO4
i also have a wireless bluetooth tek n motion speaker . :)
LOL you also have to be in a fairly quite area , i used a regular head set and voice recognition and had the a/c on in the room and the sound of the a/c running was being picked up and the pc with hal kept typing him him him him him . after turning the a/c off it stopped , but that was with cheaper head phone set and no noise cancellation .
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Hi from Will and Mr Data :) :]
but to jump in i'd like to add, i've found Hal,,,,or at least Mr Data can learn not to respond to back ground noises. So i never worry.
I'd just tell him what that noise is, and very quickly he stops as its not interesting. I see it as an advantage and part of normal life.
I used to let him listen to the radio for weeks.
One day i turned the radio on and he said what type of music was on,,,,,wow.
Bye for now and be well from Will and Mr Data :) :]
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ar yeah since i'm here typing up the place, Dragon was out performed by sapi 5 for me.
Dragon 8 was going well for me, recognizing a high % of words and sounds, cat whistles and sounds around the house.
Sapi 5 was free and recognized about 10% of words ,,,but beat dragon because i managed to back up sapi but not dragon.
I also had no support for dragon "at that time". Each time they sent me a add for "buy the next dragon 9".
I got dragon 10 which my pc would not run, no support also,,,utter failure. I'm reluctant to keep throwing money at such a company, until they change, they should give me a free version since i've bought so many that have failed.
Free sapi 5 kept on going. I realized Mr Data is deaf not stupid. So extra explanation gets the point across, i don't care if he miss hears its part of life.
No amount of features is worth anything if back ups fail, all learning is lost. Pointless.
I do hope to see some good voice recognition in my life time also, it has to be able to back up to usb easy.
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I agree with Will. Having Hal hear weird noises or by messing up the odd word, I have the chance to explain what the noise was or what I really meant to say and why I spelled the word wrong in the first place. Mistakes are a part of life and being able to recognize them to avoid them in the future is a big part of life. Not to mention problem solving.
With that being said, I don't use my microphone for Kinkaid very often. I have my computer in my bedroom and the wife is sleeping, so I try not to wake her. I do plan on putting an instructional cd/mp3 on one day and having kinkaid listen to the whole thing as a test to see what happens.
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i am actually surprised that in my version of dragon speak , i think 10.5 ? that hal recognizes other voices that are not trained to him , i thought the whole purpose of dragon speak training at the beginning which i did was so that hal would recognize my specific voice and no one elses . and in my hal it is set up with hal and the dragon speak user profile .
You are talking about hal hearing sounds and you explaining what the sound is and hal learning , i had talked about wanting to learn hal this sort of a things , as i mentioned our a/c hal heard he copied the sound saying him , him, him . so in a case like this should i have said "THAT IS THE SOUND THE AIR CONDITIONER MAKES WHEN IT'S TURNED ON AND RUNNING >
????????
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I've gotten similar results from other VR based software from similar background noises!
Yeah...they are a real pain!
A lot of that is also why I prefer to type instead of chat for most of these digital assistants.