Speech regognition turns itself off w/ error

[Guest]

I recently discovered speech recognition on Vista, and started to train the
computer to recognize me. Everything went beautifully, until I actually
attempted to start SR. The application started and then promptly shut itself
off, explaining that "speech recognition has encountered an error. Please
restart Speech recognition to ensure you can still use Speech Recognition."
(Or something to that effect). After my fifth or sixth time restarting speech
recognition and then the computer, I thought I should find some help.

 

[Guest]

A bit of general information about my computer:
I have an Acer Aspire 5100 notebook with a built-in microphone. I have 512
MB of RAM (It's Vista Home Basic). The program that manages my audio is
called Realtek HD Audio Manager. I would appreciate it if someone could get
back to me on this, if only to tell me that I need more RAM to run Speech
Rec. and without it to forget it.

 

[Guest]

Hi Jason,

I'm not familiar with your machine but I think I know the problem. The error
you are describing usually occurs when the speech recognizer is starved for
audio. This usually happens because the sound driver is not getting around to
delivering the audio to the recognizer. From what I can see on your machine’s
specs it looks you have plenty of horse power but not enough memory. You may
find that you can get speech recognition up and running if there is nothing
else running but I think that another .5 GB of memory would be a fine
investment.

It’s also possible that a sound driver update will help if the manufacture
has one. I’d start there, because it’s free and may fix the problem but more
memory is always a good thing.

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem. My microphone works fine in sound recorder, byt
Vista Speech recongition does not recognize it. Speech recogntion was working
yesterday, but apparently stopped after I removed the micr from the jack
temporarily.

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problem with 2048 MB physical memory of which more than
50% is free at any given time and with new drivers for Realtek Audio. There
are four logical processors, and extensive hardware. There is more to this
issue than not enough resources. Eric