Weird Mic Problem.. Help!

**veetid** · 07-15-2004, 02:04 PM

Good idea, but one of the first things I tried was to hook my DC-DC power supply in my car to the house power... It still does it... I use a PW120 and ITPS, but also have a power brick to plug it into the house 120 when I need to work on stuff, so I had clean power... It is definetly a hardware/software (driver) issue that is specific to the M10000... Or I just happen to have an M10000 with a messed up mic port, which seems unlikely sense it records fine... I am going to try a USB mic this afternoon...

**antimatter** · 07-15-2004, 02:24 PM

So veetid if you will give me a link to what to download i will try it on my motheboard. My offer still stands. Let me know what exactly to do and i will try it. Like i said we have a very similar setup

**veetid** · 07-15-2004, 02:34 PM

Basically... Just plug in an anolog mic and then go to control panel/Sounds and Audio Devies/Voice.... Click on the "test hardware button" and then it will ask you to read a paragraph.. See if the meter moves up and down and appears to work.. This should be a way to test it without having to install anything, because its part of XP...

If that works you can then try out..

http://www.microsoft.com/speech/download/sdk51/

That is the microsoft speech SDK.. Once it is installed you would go to Control Panel/Speech/Configure Microphone... If it moves when you talk then it is working.. Let me know.. I am curious..

**Curiosity** · 07-15-2004, 02:45 PM

Is it too late for me to agree that it's possesed?
IntellaWorks, would it help if he download the full SDK or would that add to the problems?
It's right here and it's pretty big:
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...peechSDK51.exe

I was thinking another thing to try would be to just set the mic level in the middle somewhere and just run whatever the app is. Skip the training wizard because that's the only thing that automatically adjusts the mic level AFAIK. Then slide the mic volume up or down until the recognition work right.

**IntellaWorks** · 07-15-2004, 03:11 PM

It might help if he downloaded the entire package, I still think he has the developer version selected and not the actual Speech recognition see underneith language in the combo box "Microsoft Speach recognizer v5.1"

This is what it SHOULDN'T look like

**Curiosity** · 07-15-2004, 03:35 PM

Oh I get it! If it's the developer one, the volume level stuff isn't implemented so it just returns a value of 100%. That makes sense now. Some parts of the release SAPI engine are just missing.

**veetid** · 07-15-2004, 04:54 PM

Its not a problem with the SAPI setup.. I have it setup just like the pictures above and I have installed the full SDK... I know how to setup SAPI... I programmed with it for 8 months... I know it seems like something simple is wrong, because this is such an easy thing to setup... I actually just used SAPI to build an entire Voice system for Xxxx xx Xxxxxxx... I am not a newb when it comes to computers... I have been writing software for a long time... Like I said, I have SAPI working on three computers at my house and I set it up on at least 25 computers in my QA lab... This is something specific to my M10000.. I could have a defective MB, but after reading many many posts on viaarena, it lead me to believe it was a driver issue... That is why I posted this here, because so many people use this hardware and I figured someone had to have had these problems.. I am starting to think its my MB, but I know for a fact its not with my SAPI setup...

And I did try bypassing the mic setup and it didn't work... Thats where all this started.. I was trying to use PhoneControl in my car and it didn't receive any audio from the mic... When I set it a long time ago, all I did was make sure it was working by using Sound Recorder, which it did, and that lead me to think it was working, because before this if Sound Recorder worked then it always would work for me 100% of the time...

**Curiosity** · 07-15-2004, 05:11 PM

Darn, thought I had it figured out. How about this? It's cheap at least.

I know how frustrating it must be for you. If it works in Sound Recorder then I just can't see how it wouldn't work in SAPI. That's just too confusing!

**dodgetimes2** · 07-15-2004, 07:32 PM

Might have to pull an OFFICE SPACE on it!! PC load letter WTF does that mean!!!

**IntellaWorks** · 07-15-2004, 07:45 PM

Veetid, you get very defensive in all our help and suggestions. Please don't, my responses are truely to get you up and working and not to prove to you that we are smarter.

Vehicle telematics are new to the world, technology that you write and use in the car is diffacult to use even for the best programmers. We are all embarking on a new field for computers. Let's work togeather and not try to prove who is more intelligent.

What I would do from here, is test recognition using Vbreco (a VB6 program that came with SAP5.1 SDK) If you load it up, and in the middle right of the program, it says: "sapi developer" and not "microsoft english recognizer" then you SAPI is not configured correctly.

If it says the correct thing, then go ahead and load up the "Hearts" cardgame .xml file located in the same directory that the Vbreco program is in. And say: "New game" tell me what exactly VBreco outputted. Or any errors that occured.