Can a profile be imported from previous version?

[K1lted]

This is utterly frustrating

I previously used VA with an HCS voicepack and Elite - took a bit of getting set up, but once that was done, it worked like a charm.

Then I "upgraded" to the new version - what a disaster.

After more than a day of trying to train this piece of junk I have just about had enough. Half the time it picks up noises from backgroun (in a quiet room with no external noise) and interprets them as commands (e.g. go on, look ahead, the help - none of which I have ever used) and the other half it stubbornly refuses to understand anything that I say.

After going through several laps of the voice recognition nonsense on windows, I am convinced that it does not recognise anything except American-accented English, which is useless to me (I am Scots and enunciate very clearly). Adding words to the dictionary is a total waste of time - it cannot even recognise spelling them. Not to mention the only way you can open this is with a voice command....!!!

Having played with adding commands of my own,. I can now no longer do so as the customiser resolutely refuses to open with the key combination that worked yesterday and just as stubbornly will not open at all using voice commands - what a ridiculously long phrase to enter a menu that is designed to help voice recognition.

Frankly, I have just about had enough and am pretty ready to abandon this joke altogether unless I can do something to import the sounds / commands from my previous profile, which worked perfectly a year ago.

To force an "update" like this on your customers, breaking everything that worked in the first place, is ridiculous

Rant over (for now)
Kilted

[Gangrel]

1) I would look at the command weight value and the Confidence value level (not minimum unrecognised confidence level) in the voice attack settings -> recognition tab.

By default on a new install of voice attack, the command weight is set to 50. This value is more of a guide for how hard the windows speech engines tries to match what it *thinks* you said to a command in the profile. At a setting of 100, then it will try to match *everything that it hears, even if it's a sniffle* to a command. So obviously, you want the command weight to be lower.

The confidence level is how *sure* it is of what it thinks you said.

2) You can open the speech dictionary from the voice attack settings -> Recognition tab. Click the "utilities" button and you can then get several options. One of which is the "Add/remove words to speech engine".

3) Following on from 2), there is also the advanced speech options panel, where you can create a new speech engine and train that up. Sometimes, just sometimes, the windows speech engine corrupts the data file for you, and one of the side effects is constant recognition/not recognising anything the sun. So this is where you can set up the new profile, set the appropriate mic (if you have several on your machine), adjust the volume for the mic etc.

4) Jumping back to the Voice Attack Settings -> Recognition tab, there is also the option to enable/disable adaptive recognition/acoustic echo cancellation. These can help according to your setup (I personally have different settings on my desktop machine, depending on what mic I am using, compared to my laptop.... which is strange, if I use the same mics on both systems.

5) The customiser is for the features of the profile, not to adjust recognition settings of the speech engine. That is the job of the voice attack settings.

Voice Attack settings are located in the bottom right of the Voice Attack window (click the wrench symbol)