I’ve found out why Windows Speech Recognition Macros doesn’t work on my system. In the Windows Speech Recognition settings I have the language set to English United Kingdom. If I change this to English United States then the macros that I’ve created work; however, speech recognition is, obviously, not very accurate because it doesn’t like my Scottish accent.
Windows Speech Recognition Macros Revisited
- 2 May 2008 – 5:53 pm
- Posted in Computer, Voice Recognition
- Tagged macros, recogntion, speech, voice
One Comment
You could give up Scots and talk American. If John Barrowman can do it then so can you (although your preference may differ).
That’s quite an annoying limitation. I haven’t used Vista speech yet and I was looking forward to not rhyming “a” with “Hogmanay” and “the” with “Dundee”, and creating a special word pronounced “perry odd” to mean “not the end of the sentence”. I’m told the new speech facilities are greatly improved otherwise as well. But cross off one of the advantages?
I wonder if this can be worked around by triggering some sort of macros with a “run program” voice command? Or is that what is broken? I have also been enjoying using a product called AutoHotkey which can make Windows do clever things including rewriting what you type, but when I looked last it was not speech friendly yet – but you could run it as a command.