Speech Feedback to Recogniser

[HardySpicer]

I am writing my own recogniser and synthesis software in VB .net.
However, every time I get the syntheser to speek something the mic
picks it up and thinks it is a command! It is quite bizzar - it sits
there talking to itself pure jibberish! I use Microsoft Speech the
latest SDK. I tried turing off teh recogniser of course but it doesn't
seem to work. If I turn down the volume of the speakers it's ok of
course but I want to hear the speech. Any ideas?

Hardy

[John Doe]

HardySpicer <gy********@gma il.comwrote:

I am writing my own recogniser and synthesis software in VB .net.
However, every time I get the syntheser to speek something the mic
picks it up and thinks it is a command! It is quite bizzar - it
sits there talking to itself pure jibberish! I use Microsoft
Speech the latest SDK. I tried turing off teh recogniser of course
but it doesn't seem to work. If I turn down the volume of the
speakers it's ok of course but I want to hear the speech. Any
ideas?

Hardy

The speech users group is for users. You can try the research group.
Good luck.

[Martin Markoe]

John Doe wrote:

The speech users group is for users. You can try the research group.
Good luck.

Speech recognition users used to have good luck getting answers to
questions on this user group until you, Mark Orrin Bender aka John
Doe, killed off this group because you think you are an Internet
policeman.

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Martin Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc.
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[David Wilkinson]

HardySpicer wrote:

I am writing my own recogniser and synthesis software in VB .net.
However, every time I get the syntheser to speek something the mic
picks it up and thinks it is a command! It is quite bizzar - it sits
there talking to itself pure jibberish! I use Microsoft Speech the
latest SDK. I tried turing off teh recogniser of course but it doesn't
seem to work. If I turn down the volume of the speakers it's ok of
course but I want to hear the speech. Any ideas?

Hardy:

If you are writing in VB.NET, why are you sending to
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.langua ges.vc, which is a Visual C++ group?

As to your question, have you thought of headphones :-) ?

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

[Martin Markoe]

Thanks Doe boy.

Martin Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc.
The best microphones for Speech Recognition
See us at: http://www.emicrophones.com

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Since you control both the recognizer and the synthesizer and you know when
the synthesizer is speaking you could turn off the recognizer or ignore the
SR output when the synthesizer is speaking.

In future releases we are looking at incorporating audio echo cancellation
into the signal path which should eliminate this kind of feedback.
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"David Wilkinson" wrote:

HardySpicer wrote:

I am writing my own recogniser and synthesis software in VB .net.
However, every time I get the syntheser to speek something the mic
picks it up and thinks it is a command! It is quite bizzar - it sits
there talking to itself pure jibberish! I use Microsoft Speech the
latest SDK. I tried turing off teh recogniser of course but it doesn't
seem to work. If I turn down the volume of the speakers it's ok of
course but I want to hear the speech. Any ideas?

Hardy:

If you are writing in VB.NET, why are you sending to
microsoft.publi c.dotnet.langua ges.vc, which is a Visual C++ group?

As to your question, have you thought of headphones :-) ?

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

[Peter Anthony]

I had the EXACT same problem about a month ago! I created a speech
recognizing program that confirmed via repeating the command ala
text-to-speech, only to discover that the recognizer recognized this
text-to-speech, and it went into an infinite loop of the command being
spoken and acted on!

I fixed this by just turning off speech recognition during text-to-speech
talking. This is easy to do via the SpeakStarted and SpeakCompleted events.

There is another way though, if your application can work within this
limitation. Just make sure nothing the text-to-speech says is not something
that can be recognized. That is, nothing spoken via TTS is something within
the grammars of the speech recognizer.

"HardySpice r" <gy********@gma il.comwrote in message
news:42******** *************** ***********@s36 g2000prg.google groups.com...

>I am writing my own recogniser and synthesis software in VB .net.
However, every time I get the syntheser to speek something the mic
picks it up and thinks it is a command! It is quite bizzar - it sits
there talking to itself pure jibberish! I use Microsoft Speech the
latest SDK. I tried turing off teh recogniser of course but it doesn't
seem to work. If I turn down the volume of the speakers it's ok of
course but I want to hear the speech. Any ideas?

Hardy

[Peter Anthony]

>In future releases we are looking at incorporating audio echo cancellation

>into the signal path which should eliminate this kind of feedback.

Really? That would be pretty dang cool!

If this is done, I'd like to suggest the ability to use a user-selectable
sound source as the basis of cancellation. Thus, a person could set up a
cancelling microphone on, say, an external 'noise maker' and have it
filtered out.

For example, a cancelling microphone could be placed near a TV in the room
and then the TV would no longer be listened to for SR!

I'm in no way familiar with the problems and technology involved, so I could
be asking for the impossible here. But thought I'd mention it anyway...

"Fil Alleva [Microsoft]" <Fi************ ****@discussion s.microsoft.com >
wrote in message news:17******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

Since you control both the recognizer and the synthesizer and you know
when
the synthesizer is speaking you could turn off the recognizer or ignore
the
SR output when the synthesizer is speaking.

In future releases we are looking at incorporating audio echo cancellation
into the signal path which should eliminate this kind of feedback.
--
This post provide "as is" and confers no rights or warranties.
"David Wilkinson" wrote:

>HardySpicer wrote:

I am writing my own recogniser and synthesis software in VB .net.
However, every time I get the syntheser to speek something the mic
picks it up and thinks it is a command! It is quite bizzar - it sits
there talking to itself pure jibberish! I use Microsoft Speech the
latest SDK. I tried turing off teh recogniser of course but it doesn't
seem to work. If I turn down the volume of the speakers it's ok of
course but I want to hear the speech. Any ideas?

Hardy:

If you are writing in VB.NET, why are you sending to
microsoft.publ ic.dotnet.langu ages.vc, which is a Visual C++ group?

As to your question, have you thought of headphones :-) ?

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP