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20 +22/-2 votes

Teach Speech Recognition

Submitted by Nivekv on January 15, 2010 to Annoyance, Usability

Speech Recognition is great, but when it doesn't do what you want, there is no way to correct it.

Allow users to say "Teach it" or something like that and then go into a wizard where you say the phrase that Speech Recognition misunderstood, like "Start Skype," and then show it what to do, double click Skype.exe OR run program: C:/path/to/skype.exe

Medium

Medium

Not fixed

Discussion (3 comments)

patternjake wrote on January 16, 2010, 10:19pm

I agree +1

I use speech recognition for repetive tasks or when I am lazy so when it doesnt recognize things sometimes it is really annoying.

Make sure though that you did follow the wizard when setting up speech for the first time, since it learns your voice. Also I heard the more you use it the more it learns from you..

Nivekv wrote on January 16, 2010, 10:22pm

Yes, it's true. Going through the tutorial does help it learn your voice. Using it however, doesn't help. The difference is in the Tutorial, it know what you SHOULD be saying, when you are using it, it doesn't know for sure. That's where the Teach It feature would come in. You could type in what you said and what it needs to do so that it CAN learn from you.

jefferyshall wrote on February 17, 2010, 5:03pm

Not only needed for words that are misunderstood, but for items that a user may need a lot, but are not regular words. For example I need to write "TAPlus" a lot and whenever I say it i get Ta plus or sometimes TA-Plus. So I would like to be able to teach it what to type when I say "t a plus".

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