Windows Speech Recognition Macros

Submitted by Martin Markoe on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 15:01.

MS Speech General Discussion

The developers at Microsoft have released a pre-beta version of their macro creation program for Windows Speech Recognition in the Vista operating system. CLICK HEREto download it. It has quite a few rough spots and is definitely incomplete. We highly suggest before using that you read "WSR Macros Technical Preview Release Notes.doc."

One of the rough spots was found when creating a text macro and executing it into Microsoft Office Word 2007. A text macro having more than a single line added several line breaks between lines.

Although the current usefulness of the Windows Speech Recognition Macro Tool is limited, it portends the development of better things to come. We know of at least two developers working on a more sophisticated macro tool and other developers working/planning tutorial and or navigation tools.

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Windows Speech Recognition Macros

Submitted by Rob Chambers on Sun, 04/27/2008 - 06:42.

I've got a very big "rough spot"

Submitted by dasym on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 13:58.

I've got a very big "rough spot": I can't get Windows Speech Recognition Macros to work at all. I can record macros, and it appears to load them (as it gives an error message if I edit the macro without re-certifying it), but whenever I say the phrase for the macro it just types out what I've said.

I'd be grateful for any suggestions on how to get this to work, because it looks a really good tool.

Dave

Doesn't work with Language UK

Submitted by dasym on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 15:22.

It appears that Windows Speech Recognition Macros doesn't work if the recogniser language is set to English United Kingdom. I changed it to English United States and the macros that I had created worked; however, it had great difficulty recognising my Scottish accent.

I hope there will be an update that fixes this soon.

first look at WSR Macros

Submitted by ScottW on Sat, 05/10/2008 - 03:43.

Rob,

I took a quick look at WRS macros this evening.
It looks like a great start to a full featured macro tool for WSR.

a few random comments:

1) Having conditions is great
2) switchToApp worked fine for outlook, but not IE7
3) don't hide the xml schema
4) use more constrained choices in the schema