I installed the pre-RC build of Windows Vista on my Dell D600 the other day, and have found that occasionally commands to display the start menu ("start",...
Hi Shane, ... combinations ... I haven't seen this behavior myself; interesting issue... When you do say "Start", or "Click start", Windows Speech Recognition...
Rob, Now that I think of it, I don't think my Windows start key worked either. I think I managed to get the start menu open by clicking on it. Thank you for...
... to use Neospeech Paul. But again that is just my personal choice. ... <<..>> I agree - I like Cepstral's "Lawrence". Some of the people I work with don't...
... ... How much jumping to 22KHz or higher adds I'm not sure... caution against the assumption that increasing the sample rate of a ... <<..>> Hi Dave, I'm...
... The Cepstral voices are not as natural as those of Acapela and RealSpeak. Just listen to the samples. As for Linguatec, you can feed the various voices...
Count me along with your coworkers. I don't like "Lawrence" either. And I do not think RealSpeak voices are very good, either -- they sound metallic to me....
New problem with SR in Word 2003. Every time Word automatically saves my document I receive the following message: The document was saved but data for speech...
I think the acapela pro voices are lots lots better than the ATNT voices or any other voices I've heard available from nextup. My favorite RealSpeak voices are...
If you have no use for speech data, turn this feature off. You can read instructions in a file you will find in the FILES section of this group. As for the...
... to ... and ... I haven't figure out, why do you want separate profiles for each language? There is one user lexicon, shared across all profiles, and each...
... is ... I discovered the usefulness of profiles when my current profile got corrupted, i.e., no longer worked, or when it has become too overloaded with...
... got ... has ... We've made a number of efforts to make adaptation more reliable. If there is a problem (there is one known issue in RC1 that we've fixed ...
... We have fixed this already, but I'm not sure whether it was fixed in time for RC1 or not. I suspect the fix did not make it into RC1. Mike This posting is...
... Glad to hear that. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to pinpoint the problem when a profile "does not work." I can only say that when a profile begins to...
... I cannot understand how US spellings could creep into the UK dictionary. As I have written many times before, all of this has already been done both in...
Quentin -- Vista SR will be the first SR program I not only do not adopt early, but plan to avoid until it is known to work well. I cannot express now sick...
... Simple: some of the text sources we used to train the UK system must have included US spellings and we didn't clean them up properly. ... done ... Hmm....
... the ... evaluation), ... always ... happens, but ... If this happens on top of RC1, I would like to know about it. We can analyze your profile to try to...
... versions ... it? ... I won't act as an advertiser for Vista, but if you want to know more you can go to www.microsoft.com/windowsvista. Vista is available...
Mike, ... I suspect you have seen Vista much earlier in its lifecycle (a whole year before shipping) and much more often than you've seen DNS or ViaVoice (have...
... Mike, you will see my reports in this group, prior to last February, with the difficulties I had with Vista. As a result of my experiences, I have not...
Hi Mike -- Calling these comparisons "unfair" is inappropriate. That introduces some sort of normative construct into what is essentially just an economic...
... Personally I would buy a new set of super golf clubs if there was any change after my wife spent the money! ... hounded > Quite likely! ... overnight ... I...
Amen Brother. If it does not work right away, they will abandon the task and write it off as a failure in the software. We all know differently, but users...
... Hi Richards (and everyone), I've been enjoying the various diatribes posted here over Vista SR and guess it's time for my *short* take... Some personal...