On Sep 3, 2010, at 10:45 PM, Macs R We wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Sven Aluoor wrote:
>
>> Hi folks
>>
>> I enabled "Speakable Items" -> press ESC -> a window appears -> I
>> speak "quit firefox" and nothing happens and no movment on window with
>> label Esc.
>
> Go to Speech / Speech Recognition / Calibrate and calibrate your microphone.
> Default calibration is all the way up, which is entirely unsuitable because
> it overdrives the audio. I had to set mine down to the 30% mark for best
> results.
Speaking of which...
Has the "tell me a joke" command worked for ANYBODY here since OS 9?
It works great for me up until I get to the part where I have to say "Sarah
who?" or "Tom Sawyer who?" At that point, the machine just refuses to
understand the phrase. What's interesting is that the required phrase does
show up as a value command in the "speech commands" window -- it just never
gets recognized. I don't know if this feature just flat stopped working, or it
doesn't like something about my voice or diction (although I have a very good
recognition ratio for every other valid command).
I used to use this feature regularly to amuse tiny relatives and new Macintosh
owners, but at this point it's good for nothing but flop sweat because the
punch line never comes.
(*tap* *tap* "Does this thing work??")
--
Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support
in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas.
http://macsrwe.com
_______________________________________________
MacOSX-talk mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
