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Re: [ECS] VR Possibilities randymai Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:27:53 -0500

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I'm Sorry, I will try to be clearer but its hard to be clear when you have
such a minute knowledge of what your talking about.


1. If I Install Voice-Session as a Item in ECS Then ECS Immediately loads
VR.exe And puts the VR program Box in the upper left hand corner of my
screen. I can then use Voice Session as It is intended.

2. If I then load Dragon it loads and can be used to dictate text into the
dragon window. If I open another program say WordPad I can also dictate
directly into wordPad. If I select (click on) ECS I can type into the active
window. For instance if I open ECS, Choose Create an Item, Choose
Voice-Command, and Click on the command Box. I could type in the command
like normal or since that is now the active box I can speak and Dragon will
type in the Command Box.

3. If I enable Voice-Session as set forth in 1 above VR.exe is automatically
loaded. If I then Put Voice-Session into a Group Window in ECS it shows the
state of Voice Session. If I then close the VR program box the state of
Voice-Session in the Voice-Session Box (as a Item in a Group Window) Changes
to Disabled.

4. Since I am so weak in my knowledge of ECS I'm not sure what this means
but I assume that ECS is now not available for any type of voice command.

5. It seems to me that ECS is tying itself directly to VR.exe and does not
recognise that another speech to text program (Dragon) is running.

6. I'm sorry that I can't be clearer about this I just don't have the
background needed to be more specific.

7. It seems to me that when Voice-Session is added as an interface to ECS
that it
 starts looking for a command with the first command being Attention. It
looks to
 VR.exe for that command. It does not seem to look for any and all SAPI
compliant
 programs such as Dragon. If I close the VR box then ECS disables the Voice-
 Session and quits looking for voice commands.




----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Gilmore <omnip@usit.net>
To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [ECS] VR Possibilities


> Randy, I am most confused.
> Forgetting ECS, does VR recognize ?
> What is "fill in blanks" ???
>
> randymai wrote:
> >
> > Mark:
> >
> > I tried using Dragon as you indicated but can not. The problem
> > seems to be with ECS. If I load Voice Session ECS loads VR.exe
> > If I close VR.exe ECS disables Voice Session. I can use Dragon to fill
> > in blanks in ECS so it is functional. I can even load Dragon while
> > VR is running but no matter what I do ECS does not seem to be
> > listening for commands from Dragon.
> >
> > I didn't bother with using Dragon for text to speech. Yours is much
> > better.
> >
> > Another Note the D.S.T. setup is incorrect. It sets D.S.T. just
> > fine but if ECS is reloaded say after a reboot of the Computer
> > it sets D.S.T. back to False. I made some changes to the Startup
> > program and was able to get around the problem. I think it would
> > have fixed itself after the Seventh of April.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mark Gilmore <omnip@usit.net>
> > To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 7:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ECS] VR Possibilities
> >
> > > KEVIN/RANDY: The doc that Randy sent stated that Dragon
> > > supports the MS SAPI, which implies that it should work
> > > with ECS. Have you tried it (as SPEECH-INTERFACE-B and/or
> > > VOICE-SESSION) ? If so, what error is ECS reporting ?
> > > Does ECS list any engines for the SPEECH-INTERFACE-B
> > > Item ?
> > >
> > > BTW KEVIN: What are you using to create your email msgs ?
> > > When I read them (with NetScape), I am getting VERY
> > > long lines, requiring mucho horizontal scrolling
> > > (tedious to read).
> > >
> > > Thanks all.
> > > --
> > > Mark Gilmore
> > > Omnipotence (ECS Home Automation Software)
> > > omnip@usit.net
> > > http://www.usit.com/omnip
>
> --
> Mark Gilmore
> Omnipotence (ECS Home Automation Software)
> omnip@usit.net
> http://www.usit.com/omnip

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