How do I get Vista Speech Recognition to recognize I am dictating text?

Re: How do I get Vista Speech Recognition to recognize I am dictating

> > Mark Brader "I used to own a mind like a steel trap.<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro--><!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
> > Toronto Perhaps if I'd specified a brass one, it
> > m...@vex.net wouldn't have rusted like this." --Greg Goss<!--colorc--><!--/colorc--><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

Andy T.:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> LOL! Am I to take above as a slight upon me Mark?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

No.
--
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msb@vex.net | six-letter word starting with s, ending in y, and
Toronto | having a doubled letter in the middle... Ah! Snotty!
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Re: How do I get Vista Speech Recognition to recognize I am dictating

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:09:10 -0700 (PDT), andy t <andy57@live.co.uk>
wrote:
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>On Mar 27, 10:39 pm, "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle...@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk>
>wrote:<!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
>> andy t wrote:<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
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>> I think I mentioned it earlier, but you may be interested to learn that
>> many entries in OED are over a century out of date.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
>Many entries? Over a hundred years out-of-date?
>
>Please do tell me these words that a hundred years out-of-date?
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Any entry that says the word is "archaic" is an entry for a word that
is out-of-date. Dictionaries do not drop words that are no longer in
use (out-of-date) until no one is interested in what they used to
mean.

--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

 

Re: How do I get Vista Speech Recognition to recognize I am dictating

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:30:06 +0000, "Peter Duncanson (BrE)"
<mail@peterduncanson.net> wrote:
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>On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:09:10 -0700 (PDT), andy t <andy57@live.co.uk>
>wrote:
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>>On Mar 27, 10:39 pm, "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle...@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk>
>>wrote:<!--coloro:darkred--><span style="color:darkred <!--/coloro-->
>>> andy t wrote:<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>><!--coloro:darkred--><span style="color:darkred <!--/coloro-->
>>> I think I mentioned it earlier, but you may be interested to learn that
>>> many entries in OED are over a century out of date.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>>
>>Many entries? Over a hundred years out-of-date?
>>
>>Please do tell me these words that a hundred years out-of-date?
>><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>What I understand is that there are entries that have not been updated
>in a hundred years. Some of the words may have gone out of use, others
>may still be in use today.
>
>If a word is still in use with pretty much the same meaning as it had a
>century ago there will have been no priority for updating its entry in
>the dictionary.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

The most likely place to find the oldest unrevised entries, I think,
is among the more obscure words close to the beginning of the
dictionary, in the sections originally published before 1900.

--
Don Aitken
Mail to the From: address is not read.
To email me, substitute "clara.co.uk" for "freeuk.com"

 

Re: How do I get Vista Speech Recognition to recognize I am dictating

Andy T.:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro--><!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro--><!--coloro:darkred--><span style="color:darkred <!--/coloro-->
>>> Many entries? Over a hundred years out-of-date?
>>> Please do tell me these words that a hundred years out-of-date?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc--><!--colorc--><!--/colorc--><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

Well, I just pointed one out in another thread. Peter Duncanson quoted
this definition:

# bumper, n.1
# 5. a. [f. sense 1 of the verb.] The buffer of a railway carriage
# (U.S.).

And I noted that it was most recently cited in 1864 and railway cars
in the US haven't *had* buffers since knuckle couplers were adopted
around the end of the 19th century.

(I haven't checked the OED Online to see if there's been any update
to that, but it's unlikely, given that it's in the B's. I was just
going by the OED1 and the OED Supplement, which together make up
almost all of the OED2.)

Peter Duncanson:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro--><!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
>> What I understand is that there are entries that have not been updated
>> in a hundred years. Some of the words may have gone out of use, others
>> may still be in use today.
>>
>> If a word is still in use with pretty much the same meaning as it had a
>> century ago there will have been no priority for updating its entry in
>> the dictionary.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc--><!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

Don Aitken:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> The most likely place to find the oldest unrevised entries, I think,
> is among the more obscure words close to the beginning of the
> dictionary, in the sections originally published before 1900.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

The cutoff of "originally published more than 100 years ago" takes
in everything from A to the middle of R.

However, They've had two opportunities to revise those early entries:
once around 1930 for the original supplementary volume, and again
around 1965-75 for the OED Supplement, which also incorporates the
original supplement. In the OED2, those revisions were taken into
the main text. But as Peter says, if the word is still in use with
pretty much the same meaning, they won't have made it a priority.
--
Mark Brader | "... there is no such word as 'impossible' in
Toronto | my dictionary. In fact, everything between
msb@vex.net | 'herring' and 'marmalade' appears to be missing."
| -- Dirk Gently (Douglas Adams)

My text in this article is in the public domain.

 

Re: How do I get Vista Speech Recognition to recognize I am dictating

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:23:40 -0700 (PDT), andy t wrote:

<SNIP>
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> In that case, If a word is not in that Dictionary, it is probably not
> there
> for a reason!<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

<SNIP>

Yesterday I happened to be looking up a word in the dictionary on my Pocket
PC, so when I was finished, I decided to look up "unmoderated". It *was*
there.

BTW, according to Help > About, the dictionary is "Concise Oxford English
Dictionary 11e", © Oxford University Press, 1982, ..., 2004.

--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

 

Re: How do I get Vista Speech Recognition to recognize I am dictating

andy t wrote:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> On Mar 27, 10:39 pm, "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle...@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:<!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
>> andy t wrote:<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
><!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
>> I think I mentioned it earlier, but you may be interested to learn
>> that many entries in OED are over a century out of date.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
> Many entries? Over a hundred years out-of-date?
>
> Please do tell me these words that a hundred years out-of-date?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

Other readers understood me, but I'll just confirm that I wrote that
many /entries/, not many /headwords/, were out of date.

--
Mike.

 

RE: How do I get Vista Speech Recognition to recognize I am dictating

Zielwolf,
I just started to (or am trying to start using) using Vista Speech
Recognition and am having the same problem that you state here. Did you find
a fix for this?
Thanks
Todd

"zielwolf" wrote:
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>
> I have a problem with Vista's Speech Recognition. It hears all my
> commands fine, but whenever I am in a document or text input box and I
> want to dictate text to it, it just thinks I am telling it a new
> command. It doesn't type any of the text I dictate to it, it just opens
> up Spider Solitaire or starts scrolling down or doing whatever it thinks
> I've told it to do. For example if I dictate "hello" it thinks I've told
> it to scroll down the page, instead of just typing "hello" in the text
> field like it's supposed to do.
>
> I thought you could automatically just begin dictating but that doesn't
> seem to be the case for me.
> Does anyone else have this problem? How did you fix it? How do you get
> Vista Speech Recognition to realize you are dictating to it rather than
> giving it commands? Thanks.
>
> For example, if I am in a text box, when I say "comma" it's supposed to
> type a comma, and if I say "period", it should type a period. But it
> doesn't understand me at all when I say these words, while if I say
> "control end" or "backspace" everything's fine, it knows these commands;
> so I'm thinking something's faulty or missing with the software.
>
>
> --
> zielwolf
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