OT The first verbal computer language!
John Doe
A Microsoft employee referred me to a program (Vocola) written by
Rick Mohr. It allows continuous voice command recognition he
modestly calls "command sequences". I have tested it in Windows 7
and apparently it works. It requires Windows Speech Recognition in
Windows Vista or higher (32-bit).
Just add your own vocabulary... for example, a verbalization of
Windows shortcut keys and any other Windows functions you can think
of.
I have a feeling that WSR and Vocola are short of perfect, but they
look like good building blocks.
FWIW.
One sticking point is WSR's inability to easily switch between
dictation and command modes. That sometimes causes trouble when
trying to dictate single words. Seems to me, the most efficient way
of switching modes is to set the default mode to either dictation or
command, and then to use an override key for easy temporary
switching to the other mode. The override key could be the same for
forcing either other mode, just the opposite of what the current
mode happens to be. Seems strange to me, but Dragon Naturally
Speaking disables the dictation/command override keys when in either
dictation or command mode, they only work in normal mode. So there
are three modes but no easy way to force one mode while momentarily
switching to the other. And then there is whether WSR/Vocola
continuous command recognition works in full screen games, but that
investigation is for another day.
John Doe
> A Microsoft employee referred me to a program (Vocola) written by
> Rick Mohr. It allows continuous voice command recognition he
> modestly calls "command sequences". I have tested it in Windows 7
> and apparently it works.
Umm, it sucks compared to predefined phrases in Windows XP with
Naturally Speaking pro. Back to the drawing board.
Sjouke Burry
700 dollar for a gimmick???
John Doe
> John Doe wrote:
What the fuck are you babbling about?
Sjouke Burry
About the price of "Naturally Speaking pro" according to google
John Doe
Found it, I did. There is a program (currently freeware) called
"Dragonfly" written by Christo Butcher. It works with any version of
Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) and Windows XP. You can use it with
Vista's Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) without DNS if you can stand
WSR's lag when multitasking. Dragonfly does not include a user
interface, it is mainly intended for Python programmers who want to
allow speech control of applications. But it should be easy enough to
use, with some technical help, if you have any programming experience.
Functionally, using DNS, Dragonfly is marvelous for speech activated
scripting in Windows. The main advantage over DNS Advanced Scripting
(besides being able to use it with the less expensive versions) is
that it enables continuous command recognition. Individual commands
spoken in sequence no longer require a pause between each utterance.
Also, the recognition of commands is as good as it is for DNS Advanced
Scripting scripts, and commands are executed immediately without lag.
If you have programming experience, an interest in speech recognition,
and would like to automate tasks in Windows, Dragonfly is a good place
to start. Getting a stupid computer to understand/recognize a set of
commands is easy compared to a large vocabulary human language
dictation.