TOPIC This article provides troubleshooting tips for Speakable Items. DISCUSSION Speech Recognition doesn't work at all. It doesn't hear or respond. Check the obvious. Make sure the microphone works by recording an alert sound in the Sound control panel. Make sure that Speech Recognition is turned on in the Speech control panel (or in the Control Strip). Speech Recognition hears but doesn't seem to respond or it "hears" the wrong thing. Speech recognition is designed to recognize normal volume, continuous speech in the North American English dialect. Pausing unnaturally or speaking too loud or too soft, too slow or too fast will cause it to be less accurate or to fail. Over-enunciating or pausing between words is not helpful. Speak naturally. If Speech Recognition is hearing something, you should see some animation in the feedback window. The kind of animation varies.
2. Place the microphone on top of your monitor. Optimum distance is about 50 cm from your microphone. 3. Speak at a normal volume, tone and speed. If you have some success with Speech Recognition, you're likely to have more success. 4. Say "What time is it" and 'What day is it". If those work, then the computer should have tuned itself for you. It only takes about 3 seconds to tune itself. My custom speakable items aren't recognized or don't work. Custom speakable items with longer names are easier to recognize because they're more distinctive than shorter names. You may want to rename document and folder aliases. Try pasting the name of the file in Simple Text so it can speak the file. What is says is what it's listening for (generally speaking). |
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| Product Area: | Mac OS System Software |
| Category: | Mac OS 9.0 |
| Sub Category: | Troubleshooting |
| Keywords: | kmos90 |
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