speech recogintion for mac wont work for me

crzunch · 02-12-2007, 01:12 AM

if anyone knows how to get this working right let me know please i have looked on just about every mac page concerning this and i have done everything each site that tries to help with it,only to fail, i have set it right as far as i know shows the green bars moving on the speech icon if i do commands by pressing a button before each command or saying a key word but it does recoginize my command i tried all the commands even said them 3 times in row to see if it may take awhile to notice the command, ive tried different tones of voice i tried sitting the mic closer and futher i tried different volume setting on my mic and made sure ihad no background noise even and nothing i know my mic works cuz its being seen ,and in calibrating the green bars move so please anone has a soluton ill love you forever thanks

pepsibobby · 02-12-2007, 01:47 AM

the speech recognition in OSX suck. give up now.

SEGgeek · 02-12-2007, 06:16 AM

Apple's speech recognition is really bad in OSX it was MUCH better in Classic!

Its useless for car use

Jonathan

crzunch · 02-12-2007, 10:31 AM

what about Ilisten ???
i just got it today

Jirka Jirout · 02-12-2007, 11:02 AM

Hm, I have been playing with speech recognition (programmatically, using Cocoa framework) quite a bit and except for relatively poor performance in noisy environment, it was working fine.

Bugbyte · 02-13-2007, 08:04 AM

Try a different program like Dragon Naturally Speaking.

crzunch · 02-13-2007, 09:13 AM

will powermate utn on the mac and off as well ?

kandyman676 · 02-15-2007, 11:39 PM

No. Powermate only works with way older Macs.