Welcome to VoiceAction Overview!


THE STARTER PAGE

Upon having installed Voiceaction.OCX Component on your disk you may go forward to the following text ...

You may as a start have a look at its Speech to Text capabilities using the WordViewer Application !(Unzip the project files and open them in VB5.0 or 6.0 make an exe and then run)

Say any word you want in any language (absolulely any word that is name place, number etc.)

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Observe the strings produced and visit this   page for explanation for the Consonants and Vowels notations i.e. Human Speech Recognition Modeling & Used Engine Codes used under VoiceAction.

Now Unzip the project files for SDK  and open them in VB5.0 or 6.0 make an exe and then run start the SDK Application !

1. Hear the background music and observe the tools on the screen.


2. Now press Open Settings.. that will enable the disabled START(egn) and also display in the menus all the default settings.

3. Now in Language Settings input a new file name for Language File to Add and the same file name as a start to Langauge File to match.

4. Now Press Langauge Editor and the screen below will show up (w/o the data in pic)...

5. Now press "Prepare New"...After getting a successful message ...input the first word you want VoiceAction to recognize also   enter below a rating of 100 as a start...use your desired font if you like...

Repeat this step and prepare a new record for every one of your words. Remember which record stands for which word (as  you require that for direct addition)

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4. Now Press Add ( the larger one with the record to which the engine  strings will be added)

5. Press START and say your word ...within some seconds a messageBox will pop showing you the produced strings and asking you if you wish to add or no.

6. Press YES if this is not a noise.See Installation.

Repeat this word atleast 10 times and observe the produced pattern.
4. After 10 times press Don't Add and press Langaue Editor Again this will bring the above Dialog Window again . Now see the strings that you had entered in the Box no.4 Observe them carefully . Use your knowledge of VB pattern matching and input a code with a rating to the most dominant of the pattern.
5. Test your word ...after this word is recognized 90 % time you say it go enter record no.2 in Add and then press it (now all productions will be inserted in record no.2) ...repeat all for the rest of the words...you may have to edit the ratings for better recognition ....carry the settings used in to your application... Enjoy VoiceAction.

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Also see :

1. Speech Interface

2. How does my voice actually get recognized ?

3. What is a Engine Category ?

4. Human Speech Recognition Modeling & Used Engine Codes !

5. How to use the Engine Editor ?

6. How to use the Language Editor?

 

7. VoiceAction Language File Type "Lang" details ...

8. What are the protocols used to allocate percentage  of recognition ?

9. What are the Recommended Settings and why?

10. How do I actually get or insert the Engine Strings into my program?

11. How do I actually get or insert the Words I Want into my program?

12. How do I actually get or insert the Final Platinum Words into my program?