How to get Hal to understand me

[sharon_l_cer]

I purchased Hall about a week ago now. I can not get him to recoginize any thing I say for example: I say "what time is it
?" It thinks I said the words "about you". I'm unable to ask it anything.
Can someone please tell me how to make him understand me.

My mic
works just find so that is not the problem.

Please help!!

[The Tinman]

How many training sessions have you had with the speech engine? If your Mic works fine as you said, and you are using a closed microphone. Are you? Then the problem most likely is that you need more training sessions. If you are not using a closed Mic then you need to purchase one. good luck with it.........TM

[sharon_l_cer]

I am using a headset. So I hope
that is close enough.
As far as the speeck engine I'm using windows xp speech recoginition.
I've complete days of training and recoginize what I am saying
 I've tried training with Hal on, with Hal off, with Hal unenstalled
But I'm not getting anywhere.

I really want this program to work for me. There is a lot I can do with it.
I have already told some other people about Hal. Why should they buy it if it's not working for me.

Once again Please tell me what I am doing wrong!

SC

[The Tinman]

Switch to the speech recognition engine that came with the program. The engines for both the 3.0 and 4.0 versions of Hal work fine. I am using windows ME. I have two folders that contain speech recogition engines. One contains the msn asr version 5. I think perhaps you are training one engine and the program by default is selecting another. I realize that when you select speech that the program appears to give you choices of engines to work with. This part of the Hal program may not be functioning as it should. I do not know, there are many things I do not know. But I DO know that the engines that came with the programs function just fine. Train the version 5 engine and select it to be used for speech recognition. It should work. .................TM

Edited by - the tinman on 11/27/2001  05:13:38