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Voice Recognition File - help
I want to save my Voice Recognition File in MS Office 2003 to prevent
re-educating it. What is it called? What is the extension? Where can I find it? TIA -- Brod |
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en .. Brod wrote: I want to save my Voice Recognition File in MS Office 2003 to prevent re-educating it. What is it called? What is the extension? Where can I find it? TIA |
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Thank you Garfield but I'm not sure what to do now. I have downloaded the
file, installed it and I have run it but I still am unable to find where the original file is stored. It would appear to have the extension *.spf but there is no such file on my computer. In some of the older version it was possible just to move the file containing all the 'educated' voice commands to a safe place and restore it should the original be lost. This Word 2003 has me stumped. I just can't find where all those stored records are. TIA -- Brod "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en . Brod wrote: I want to save my Voice Recognition File in MS Office 2003 to prevent re-educating it. What is it called? What is the extension? Where can I find it? TIA |
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As far as I know, it was NEVER possible "just to move the file
containing all the 'educated' voice commands" because the speech profile was not stored in one explicit file, and it was not even possible to back up the speech profile before Microsoft developed this speech profile manager tool. According to http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283159 "Frequently asked questions about speech recognition": 26. Are the speech recognition training files backed up by the Save My Settings Wizard and the Profile Wizard? If not, is there a way to do this manually and restore to a new system? Currently these utilities do not save the speech recognition training profile because they are designed for migration to another computer. It is not very useful to restore user profiles to a different computer on which audio channel may have a different character. If you have to back up and to restore a profile to the same system, you can use the Speech Profile Manager utility. For more information about the Speech Profile Manager utility, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...t_lexicon.mspx Brod wrote: Thank you Garfield but I'm not sure what to do now. I have downloaded the file, installed it and I have run it but I still am unable to find where the original file is stored. It would appear to have the extension *.spf but there is no such file on my computer. In some of the older version it was possible just to move the file containing all the 'educated' voice commands to a safe place and restore it should the original be lost. This Word 2003 has me stumped. I just can't find where all those stored records are. TIA |
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Thank you Garfield. Trust me it WAS possible with the earlier versions.
When you altered the information it used to say it was saving it to such and such a file and it was an easy matter to save the file to another location. Now it just saves it but does not tell you where or how. I'm scared something will go wrong and I'll have to go all through that tedious re-education routine. Sad it has been changed. Thanks anyway. -- Brod "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... As far as I know, it was NEVER possible "just to move the file containing all the 'educated' voice commands" because the speech profile was not stored in one explicit file, and it was not even possible to back up the speech profile before Microsoft developed this speech profile manager tool. According to http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283159 "Frequently asked questions about speech recognition": 26. Are the speech recognition training files backed up by the Save My Settings Wizard and the Profile Wizard? If not, is there a way to do this manually and restore to a new system? Currently these utilities do not save the speech recognition training profile because they are designed for migration to another computer. It is not very useful to restore user profiles to a different computer on which audio channel may have a different character. If you have to back up and to restore a profile to the same system, you can use the Speech Profile Manager utility. For more information about the Speech Profile Manager utility, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...t_lexicon.mspx Brod wrote: Thank you Garfield but I'm not sure what to do now. I have downloaded the file, installed it and I have run it but I still am unable to find where the original file is stored. It would appear to have the extension *.spf but there is no such file on my computer. In some of the older version it was possible just to move the file containing all the 'educated' voice commands to a safe place and restore it should the original be lost. This Word 2003 has me stumped. I just can't find where all those stored records are. TIA |
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Are you sure you weren't using third-party voice-recognition software?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Brod" wrote in message u... Thank you Garfield. Trust me it WAS possible with the earlier versions. When you altered the information it used to say it was saving it to such and such a file and it was an easy matter to save the file to another location. Now it just saves it but does not tell you where or how. I'm scared something will go wrong and I'll have to go all through that tedious re-education routine. Sad it has been changed. Thanks anyway. -- Brod "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... As far as I know, it was NEVER possible "just to move the file containing all the 'educated' voice commands" because the speech profile was not stored in one explicit file, and it was not even possible to back up the speech profile before Microsoft developed this speech profile manager tool. According to http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283159 "Frequently asked questions about speech recognition": 26. Are the speech recognition training files backed up by the Save My Settings Wizard and the Profile Wizard? If not, is there a way to do this manually and restore to a new system? Currently these utilities do not save the speech recognition training profile because they are designed for migration to another computer. It is not very useful to restore user profiles to a different computer on which audio channel may have a different character. If you have to back up and to restore a profile to the same system, you can use the Speech Profile Manager utility. For more information about the Speech Profile Manager utility, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...t_lexicon.mspx Brod wrote: Thank you Garfield but I'm not sure what to do now. I have downloaded the file, installed it and I have run it but I still am unable to find where the original file is stored. It would appear to have the extension *.spf but there is no such file on my computer. In some of the older version it was possible just to move the file containing all the 'educated' voice commands to a safe place and restore it should the original be lost. This Word 2003 has me stumped. I just can't find where all those stored records are. TIA |
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The first Word version that supported speech recognition was Word
2002 (Office XP), which is only one version before the current Word 2003 (Office 2003), and the feature works the same way in both versions. Not sure which "earlier versions" you're referring to. Possibly you don't understand how speech recognition works in Word any better than you understand how bookmarks work in Word (to those who don't get the reference, see Brod's advice to Sharon in http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...9639fa6ae0324a ). Brod wrote: Thank you Garfield. Trust me it WAS possible with the earlier versions. When you altered the information it used to say it was saving it to such and such a file and it was an easy matter to save the file to another location. Now it just saves it but does not tell you where or how. I'm scared something will go wrong and I'll have to go all through that tedious re-education routine. Sad it has been changed. Thanks anyway. |
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No need to be offensive Garfield. I certainly know what bookmarks are and
how to use Voice Recognition plus many of the other functions of Office. Be assured I used to be able to save a single file to protect my voice recognition configuration. I challenge you to tell me what was wrong with the advice I gave Sharon. -- Brod "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... The first Word version that supported speech recognition was Word 2002 (Office XP), which is only one version before the current Word 2003 (Office 2003), and the feature works the same way in both versions. Not sure which "earlier versions" you're referring to. Possibly you don't understand how speech recognition works in Word any better than you understand how bookmarks work in Word (to those who don't get the reference, see Brod's advice to Sharon in http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...9639fa6ae0324a ) . |
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Suzanne,
I used 'Naturally Speaking Version 1' many years ago but found it very unstable. I switched to Office Voice Recognition when it first came out. I'm not sure which version it came in but I suspect it was either 2000 or XP. I'm currently trying to establish when it first appeared in MS products. -- Brod "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Are you sure you weren't using third-party voice-recognition software? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Brod" wrote in message u... Thank you Garfield. Trust me it WAS possible with the earlier versions. When you altered the information it used to say it was saving it to such and such a file and it was an easy matter to save the file to another location. Now it just saves it but does not tell you where or how. I'm scared something will go wrong and I'll have to go all through that tedious re-education routine. Sad it has been changed. Thanks anyway. -- Brod "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... As far as I know, it was NEVER possible "just to move the file containing all the 'educated' voice commands" because the speech profile was not stored in one explicit file, and it was not even possible to back up the speech profile before Microsoft developed this speech profile manager tool. According to http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283159 "Frequently asked questions about speech recognition": 26. Are the speech recognition training files backed up by the Save My Settings Wizard and the Profile Wizard? If not, is there a way to do this manually and restore to a new system? Currently these utilities do not save the speech recognition training profile because they are designed for migration to another computer. It is not very useful to restore user profiles to a different computer on which audio channel may have a different character. If you have to back up and to restore a profile to the same system, you can use the Speech Profile Manager utility. For more information about the Speech Profile Manager utility, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...t_lexicon.mspx Brod wrote: Thank you Garfield but I'm not sure what to do now. I have downloaded the file, installed it and I have run it but I still am unable to find where the original file is stored. It would appear to have the extension *.spf but there is no such file on my computer. In some of the older version it was possible just to move the file containing all the 'educated' voice commands to a safe place and restore it should the original be lost. This Word 2003 has me stumped. I just can't find where all those stored records are. TIA |
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Hi Brod,
The information on how to use the Speech Profile Import/Export tool to create a .SPF file is in the link at the bottom of the MS Knowledge Base article FAQ snippet that garfield-n-oldie copied into a prior message. from the MS Knowledge base article. When you download the manager and double click it, it unpacks a file named SPProfileMgr.exe. When you double click that you should see a list of one or more Speech User Profile names that match the ones in the Speech applet in the Windows control Panel You can select one, choose [Export] and give the Profile a name to use for saving. This creates the .SPF file, your backup. To restore one later you run the SPProfileMgr.exe and [Import] a profile copy. The basic MS speech files are .dat files that have a file name that starts with "SP_" and are generally located in drive:\Documents and Settings\your username here\Application Data\Microsoft\Speech and drive:\Documents and Settings\your username here\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Speech Note that the Profile Mgr is from the Windows Speech team and is a 'use as is' (non Office) product. FWIW, Dragon's current versions have additional features, languages and capabilities not presently available in the U.S. English only implementation for English language portion of the MS Office Speech implementation. http://scansoft.com ======== "Brod" wrote in message u... Thank you Garfield. Trust me it WAS possible with the earlier versions. When you altered the information it used to say it was saving it to such and such a file and it was an easy matter to save the file to another location. Now it just saves it but does not tell you where or how. I'm scared something will go wrong and I'll have to go all through that tedious re-education routine. Sad it has been changed. Thanks anyway. -- Brod -- Let us know if this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" - http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx |
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Thank you Bob. I have found that out from other sources and have used it.
There is another problem though and that is that my primary concern was how to transfer the 'educated' configuration from one computer to another. My laptop has been educated but when I try to import the Toshiba laptop the computer will not accept it. The laptop has been configured in Toshiba's inbuilt sound recording system. I'm currently working out how to overcome that. Thank you. -- Brod "Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi Brod, The information on how to use the Speech Profile Import/Export tool to create a .SPF file is in the link at the bottom of the MS Knowledge Base article FAQ snippet that garfield-n-oldie copied into a prior message. from the MS Knowledge base article. When you download the manager and double click it, it unpacks a file named SPProfileMgr.exe. When you double click that you should see a list of one or more Speech User Profile names that match the ones in the Speech applet in the Windows control Panel You can select one, choose [Export] and give the Profile a name to use for saving. This creates the .SPF file, your backup. To restore one later you run the SPProfileMgr.exe and [Import] a profile copy. The basic MS speech files are .dat files that have a file name that starts with "SP_" and are generally located in drive:\Documents and Settings\your username here\Application Data\Microsoft\Speech and drive:\Documents and Settings\your username here\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Speech Note that the Profile Mgr is from the Windows Speech team and is a 'use as is' (non Office) product. FWIW, Dragon's current versions have additional features, languages and capabilities not presently available in the U.S. English only implementation for English language portion of the MS Office Speech implementation. http://scansoft.com ======== "Brod" wrote in message u... Thank you Garfield. Trust me it WAS possible with the earlier versions. When you altered the information it used to say it was saving it to such and such a file and it was an easy matter to save the file to another location. Now it just saves it but does not tell you where or how. I'm scared something will go wrong and I'll have to go all through that tedious re-education routine. Sad it has been changed. Thanks anyway. -- Brod -- Let us know if this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" - http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx |
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Posted May 30 2001
Speech recognition-one of the revolutionary new features in Microsoft Office XP-makes it possible for users to enter text, control menus, and execute commands simply by speaking into a microphone. A great supplement to traditional mouse and keyboard input, speech recognition will boost productivity and provide a new option for people who have difficulty using a keyboard. -- Brod "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... The first Word version that supported speech recognition was Word 2002 (Office XP), which is only one version before the current Word 2003 (Office 2003), and the feature works the same way in both versions. Not sure which "earlier versions" you're referring to. Possibly you don't understand how speech recognition works in Word any better than you understand how bookmarks work in Word (to those who don't get the reference, see Brod's advice to Sharon in http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...9639fa6ae0324a ). Brod wrote: Thank you Garfield. Trust me it WAS possible with the earlier versions. When you altered the information it used to say it was saving it to such and such a file and it was an easy matter to save the file to another location. Now it just saves it but does not tell you where or how. I'm scared something will go wrong and I'll have to go all through that tedious re-education routine. Sad it has been changed. Thanks anyway. |
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What is this supposed to prove? Speech recognition was introduced in Office
XP (Word 2002), just as garfield-n-odie said. So what is your point? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Brod" wrote in message u... Posted May 30 2001 Speech recognition-one of the revolutionary new features in Microsoft Office XP-makes it possible for users to enter text, control menus, and execute commands simply by speaking into a microphone. A great supplement to traditional mouse and keyboard input, speech recognition will boost productivity and provide a new option for people who have difficulty using a keyboard. -- Brod "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... The first Word version that supported speech recognition was Word 2002 (Office XP), which is only one version before the current Word 2003 (Office 2003), and the feature works the same way in both versions. Not sure which "earlier versions" you're referring to. Possibly you don't understand how speech recognition works in Word any better than you understand how bookmarks work in Word (to those who don't get the reference, see Brod's advice to Sharon in http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...9639fa6ae0324a ). Brod wrote: Thank you Garfield. Trust me it WAS possible with the earlier versions. When you altered the information it used to say it was saving it to such and such a file and it was an easy matter to save the file to another location. Now it just saves it but does not tell you where or how. I'm scared something will go wrong and I'll have to go all through that tedious re-education routine. Sad it has been changed. Thanks anyway. |
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Hi Brod,
The speech profiles are, to some extent, machine specific. While you can move the saved .SPF file from one computer to another via email, or network copy or CD, it may not be useful to you unless the two computers are fairly identical. ========= "Brod" wrote in message u... Thank you Bob. I have found that out from other sources and have used it. There is another problem though and that is that my primary concern was how to transfer the 'educated' configuration from one computer to another. My laptop has been educated but when I try to import the Toshiba laptop the computer will not accept it. The laptop has been configured in Toshiba's inbuilt sound recording system. I'm currently working out how to overcome that. Thank you. Brod -- Let us know if this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" - http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx |
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