Mike, Indeed, I have gone through the tutorial and training. I have extensively used speech for six years in my medical practice and understand the importance...
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mplumpe
Oct 10, 2006 3:13 pm
... Did you go through the tutorial and/or training? ... we ... Which dialog is giving you a grayed out ok button? Is this the dialog where it is asking you...
2749
robch_ms
Oct 10, 2006 3:02 pm
... Yep. We definitely did. In fact, the GM for Speech at the time that this integration into windows started, is a native Chinese speaker. Our VP at the time...
2748
mplumpe
Oct 10, 2006 2:15 pm
... <cut> ... You say the vocabulary isn't sufficiently exhaustive. Turn on document review. I just about never hit out of vocabulary words with document ...
2747
Richards
jruingggg
Oct 10, 2006 1:05 pm
Yo - Itamar -- I just love your perseverance... but you really gotta watch those double negatives... !!!!! ;-) "switching between them is a bit awkward,...
2746
Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 10, 2006 11:10 am
After repeated attempts I have managed to successfully activate the German language pack and its speech recognition. I created brand-new user,...
2745
Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 9, 2006 3:00 pm
I have now experimented with Rob Chamber's proposal to create different users for different languages. Although this is a very wasteful method in terms of...
2744
Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 9, 2006 1:49 pm
... In continuation to the above, I'm sorry to report that I have not been successful with the German language pack. It seemed to have installed properly, and...
2743
Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 9, 2006 9:22 am
I am happy to report about a remarkable improvement in Windows Vista. In the latest build (5744; RC2) four language packs are already available since yesterday...
2742
Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 9, 2006 6:34 am
... Shane, Please go to the FILES section of this group and get Rob Chamber's file for selecting your own training text. Itamar PS. Thank you for the...
2741
shanelauf
Oct 9, 2006 4:39 am
Does anyone have access to the text used in training Microsoft speech recognition Chinese (I have version 5.1, pulled from the 5.1 speech SDK)? I have the...
2740
Shane Lauf
shanelauf
Oct 9, 2006 12:40 am
Itamar, I noticed that you had a "?" regarding NaturallySpeaking's support for Japanese. I can tell you that NaturallySpeaking does support Japanese, but ...
2739
Charles Oppermann
chuckop65
Oct 8, 2006 11:17 pm
Thanks for that feedback. The TTS built into many navigation systems are designed for a much more constrained vocabulary and grammar. As such, the inventory...
2738
Charles Oppermann
chuckop65
Oct 8, 2006 11:00 pm
There is a note in the Windows Help and Support system about using SR and multiple languages. I was able to get to it by searching on "Set Speech Recognition...
2737
Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 8, 2006 10:30 pm
... Joseph, If you don't mind, please consult my comparative tables and my document "Good News bad News in Windows Vista". You will find there a summary of ...
2736
jgraney3
Oct 8, 2006 8:31 pm
It has been a while since I've posted on this forum, as it has been awhile since I fiddled with Microsoft's speech recognition. Now that I rolled the dice and...
2735
Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 8, 2006 8:57 am
I have posted a corrected version of my comparative table on my Speech website and in the FILES section of this group. The links are: FILES section: ...
2734
Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 8, 2006 8:29 am
... Thanks for confirming this. Good to know that the only thing to do is to load a different engine. Hopefully, this piece of information will be given to...
2733
mplumpe
Oct 8, 2006 7:38 am
... switched ... that no ... have ... Correct, you can switch between dialects of the same language (e.g. US & UK English) this way but not between different...
2732
Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 7, 2006 8:00 pm
Without changing the main language nor the regional settings I switched â€" in Windows Vista 5744 â€" from U.S. to UK engine just by selecting the...
2731
blp2021
Oct 7, 2006 7:20 am
My Garmin streetpilot and the TomTom GPS systems have better text to speech than Vista. If you want to hear what MS Anna is saying you have to listen closely....
2730
Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 6, 2006 2:24 pm
Having now experimented quite a bit with both DNS version 9 and Windows Vista Speech (build 5728),I have come to several conclusions about the respective...
2729
Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 6, 2006 12:22 pm
Please discard the above, if you have received it in the mail. I am sorry about it; I will re-post it in a table format on a linkable page. Itamar Even-Zohar...
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Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 5, 2006 8:01 pm
... Josh, The ScanSoft Magdalena voice is Portuguese of Portugal, not Brazilian. "raquel" is the only Brazilian voice. Itamar...
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Josh
kutztownstudent
Oct 5, 2006 4:36 pm
no I'm referring to the scansoft voices. Josh skype: jkenn337 email: jkenn337@... aol: kutztownstudent msn messenger: kenn6498ku@... ... From:...
2725
Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 5, 2006 11:25 am
... Josh, If you refer to the "Older Free Voices," then I would not recommend them to anyone. Itamar...
2724
Josh
kutztownstudent
Oct 5, 2006 11:12 am
yes, go to www.nextup.com and you can get another voice. Josh skype: jkenn337 email: jkenn337@... aol: kutztownstudent msn messenger:...
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Itamar Even-Zohar
itamarez
Oct 5, 2006 7:23 am
... There is only one Portuguese voice other than Raquel, but it sounds more Portugal Portuguese than Brazilian. It's by Linguatec, which has several very good...
2722
Rodrigo Gidra
volkusr
Oct 5, 2006 3:39 am
Hi fellows, Does anyone knows if there's any TTS brazilian voice other than "raquel" ? If there's such a high increase in TTS applications in my country, why...
2721
Brad
bst_voice
Oct 4, 2006 4:27 pm
Has anyone else seen this problem? Open Excel 2003, highlight some text, allow MS text-to-speech to say the highlighted text (works fine), open up Internet...
