Welcome to the tazti speech recognition forums main page. From here you can find posts and information about tazti in many forum categories. We invite you to post your questions and suggestion. Contact us at our support email if you have any specific questions. Thanks for trying tazti! - With tazti voice recognition software you can... talk to your PC to get it to do stuff: play PC Games, navigate Facebook; control your itunes player; search the internet by voice including Google, Yahoo, Youtube; create your own speech commands, and more. Downloads available for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. http://www.tazti.com/forums/index.php Thu, 17 May 2012 20:55:05 -0500 Phorum 5.2.13 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?15,290,292#msg-292 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?15,290,292#msg-292
Thanks,
Michael Support Lead
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I generated a new profile with a single command. The only key combination was a windows logo + m. This should minimize all open windows. If I tried it manually from the keyboard, it works fine. By the way, the taskbar showed the command was recognized.

I've tried it with various delays up to 2 seconds. In addition, I tried added a delay between the two keys.

There are a lot of window oriented key shortcuts which use the window key. Hopefully, I'm making some simple mistake.

The system is Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. The computer is a Dell labtop inspiron 1591 with 2GB and 500GB HD. I've not tried this on another computer so can't determine whether is hardware dependent.

I've done at least one uninstall and then install. The download was from the www.tazti.com website.

I've liked the software so far.]]> irongrinder Other tazti Features Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:23:19 -0600 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?6,269,270#msg-270 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?6,269,270#msg-270
Thanks for the note.

We also observed a similar "Microphone Volume is reset to Zero automatically when tazti opens" problem when we were testing our Win 7 64 bit test machines. We have an Alienware win7 64bit machine and an Asus Win 7 64bit machine both running Realtek HD audio that both experienced this problem. We have a third Alienware Win 7 64bit PC that is running an audio program other than Realtek HD audio. This third machine did not experience the "mic reset to 0" problem.

After some research we think that some versions of Adobe Flash may interfere with Realtek HD audio controls. We believe this is due to the fact that Adobe is now including in Flash some ability to control mic/camera/audio. When 64bit versions of Windows 7 were originally released, a 64bit version of Flash did not exist for 64bit versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome browsers. Now Adobe has newer versions of Flash available for 64bit IE, Firefox and Chrome that work well. During our testing we discovered that installing the latest version of Adobe Flash seemed to eliminate our mic reset problem.

So we'd be interested to see if your 64 bit Windows 7 PC, when updated with the latest version of Flash, solves your mic reset problem, or if you have different results that we can use if further debugging is needed.

We highly recommend you follow the instructions below to insure you get the correct version of Flash installed for your 64bit browsers.

1. If your mic on your 64 bit Windows 7 PC doesn't work with your 64 bit version of tazti, go ahead and close the tazti dashboard. There should be a window displayed below tazti that becomes visible when you close tazti. The window should confirm you have an older version of Adobe Flash installed on your Windows 7 64 bit PC, that is not functioning correctly with Realtek HD audio and other apps on your PC.

2. Go ahead and click “Check for online solution.” as this will find the latest Flash version for your PC. It can take several minutes till it finds the correct version online.

3. Install the latest version of Flash.

4. Restart your PC and set your mic to the correct levels.

5. Open tazti and see if tazti has stopped resetting your mic to 0.

This is quite an interesting problem showing the complexity of having many components built into a system. Note: We do have a Flash component running in the tazti dashboard that does absolutely nothing in any way important to tazti functioning. It's interesting how this may have caused the problem.

Let us know how this works for your system.

Ken, Thank you very much of your comments. We appreciate them!

Stu at team tazti]]> admin Installing and Running Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:03:06 -0600 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?6,269,269#msg-269 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?6,269,269#msg-269
I recently installed Tazti on my new pc and noticed a bug every time I launch it. My microphone recording volume is reduced to 0 when Tazti starts up. It is not muting the mic, it's just moving the recording volume slider all the way to 0.

This results in Tazti not hearing my commands. Good news is the workaround is as simple as opening my Realtek HD audio manager and moving the recording volume slider back to a level that the mic will pick up.

Just wanted to call this to your attention. It's odd, it's a small inconvenience, but it's manageable.

Ken,
Win 7x64 Home Premium
Realtek HD audio]]> coyoterys Installing and Running Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:56:01 -0600 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?14,261,263#msg-263 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?14,261,263#msg-263 support@tazti.com.

Regards,
Michael
Support Lead
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Michael
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I looked at the built in speech recognition capability of Windows 7 and Dragon, but both are overly complex, as the PC just needs to understand some basic commands and reliably launch the desired MP3 file or PC command.

And since my Mom has a slight accent neither program was good at understanding her. I've had some success with Tazti however some commands like 'close' (to close active window) somehow has a poor recognition rate. In the current version there is no way to train the PC to better understand 'close' (with an accent), or to use another substitute like 'shut window' and I have not looked at the API option yet.
Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.

PS I did find a way for skype CALLTO to work via a simple command file shown below (for win7 I had to put it in the program-file7skype/phone directory), where +41 is the country code, 22 is the area code and xxx xxxx is the number.
Skype.exe /callto:+4122xxxxxxx?]]> zzz2b2 Suggestions Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:13:34 -0600 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?14,57,260#msg-260 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?14,57,260#msg-260 create a file called calljohn.cmd and include the below one line text in that file
skype.exe /callto:+41221234567?

Then create the custom command 'calljohn' and point it to the file calljohn.cmd in programfiles/skype/phone

This means you use one 'custom command' (out of 75 max) for each 'call to' number.

For my nearly-blind Mom, I can set up about 10 phone numbers like this and a few 'read' audio book commands, or listen to music MP3s or podcasts.]]> zzz2b2 Suggestions Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:45:08 -0600 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?2,252,258#msg-258 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?2,252,258#msg-258
Michael
Support Lead
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Michael
Support Lead
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I don't mind being quoted, but that looks....fishy.]]> coyoterys Cool Ways to Use tazti - Mashups & API Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:05:16 -0600 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?2,252,255#msg-255 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?2,252,255#msg-255
At the moment, there is not an easy way to do this. We are working on adding this feature to tazti. If you would like to help beta test this feature when it becomes available, send us an email at info@tazti.com. The beta will likely be available in the next month or so.

Thanks,
Michael
Support Lead
team tazti]]> admin Cool Ways to Use tazti - Mashups & API Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:03:49 -0600 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?2,252,253#msg-253 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?2,252,253#msg-253
Best... Adam at team tazti]]> admin Cool Ways to Use tazti - Mashups & API Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:39:39 -0500 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?2,252,252#msg-252 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?2,252,252#msg-252
I should be getting a new PC shortly, and I want to transfer all my custom created game profiles to the new rig. Where does Tazti store the files so I can copy them to a thumb drive for transfer?

Thanks,
Ken]]> coyoterys Cool Ways to Use tazti - Mashups & API Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:51:02 -0500 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?13,244,246#msg-246 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?13,244,246#msg-246 MarkTazti tazti and Custom Commands Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:41:24 -0500 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?13,244,245#msg-245 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?13,244,245#msg-245
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, 75 commands is currently the limit for custom commands (we upped it to 75 from 35 commands in the previous version of tazti). We have had a number of people comment that they would like more than 75 commands, and we're thinking about a number of different ideas, maybe increasing the number of custom commands in tazti, or spinning off a separate custom commands only version. How many custom commands would you need? What other features besides Custom Commands would you want bundled with them or would you use?

Thanks,
Michael
Support Lead
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I'm considering buying Tazti, but I was wondering if there is a limit on custom commands as the website seems to imply. Is there still a limit of 75 custom commands? If so, is there a reason for this? I can imagine that I would quite easily fill that list.

Thanks,

Mark]]> MarkTazti tazti and Custom Commands Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:38:56 -0500 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?14,226,240#msg-240 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?14,226,240#msg-240 lewisgreen Suggestions Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:42:08 -0500 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?15,234,236#msg-236 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?15,234,236#msg-236
Your diagnosis sounds about right. Likely it is hearing you say 'Stop....(game profile name here)' and then going into basic command mode. It may be hearing you on Ventrilo, or if you have a loud tv going in the background or you have your speakers (not a headset) cranked up high it may be hearing that and causing a misfire in the recognition.

I passed your suggestion about a mute key for tazti to engineering (see this thread [www.tazti.com]).

Another option would be to edit the 'Stop' command for a gaming profile to make it less likely to knock you out of gaming mode. This isn't possible in the current edition, but for future editions we could look at this.

Thanks,
Michael
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I will pass along your idea to engineering to look at for the next version of tazti. What about the idea of being able to create a gaming speech command and marking it as a 'mute' command that allows you to mute tazti? There may be some applications where you would want a mute command and some you would not, in which case making a it global and forcing it on all gaming profiles might be going too far in the other direction.

Keep up the constructive criticism and thoughts. That's how we help make tazti a better product is from people using it in the field.

Regards,
Michael
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I think it's somehow closing my game profile, and then listening for basic commands. I don't know how it thinks I say, "Stop Playing Bad Company 2", unless it just assumes when I'm talking on ventrillo that when I speak more than 1 or 2 words it must be "Stop Playing Bad Company 2".

I know I'm beating a dead horse, but this is just another reason why Tazti needs a Global key that acts as a push to mute mic function. Tazti needs to stop listening for commands when users need to speak freely.]]> coyoterys Other tazti Features Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:22:22 -0500 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?14,226,232#msg-232 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?14,226,232#msg-232
Don't get me wrong, I love Tazti. Now that I'm using it regularly I'm just finding things I feel would make it even more awesome.

-Ken]]> coyoterys Suggestions Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:29:59 -0500 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?14,226,231#msg-231 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?14,226,231#msg-231
Thanks for the question. Tazti can do more or less what you are asking for. We recommend the following:

1. Set up a 'push to talk' (PTT) key in Ventrilo (e.g. set some key or key combo to trigger Ventrilo)
2. Set up a gaming speech command in your gaming profile to send the 'PTT' key you set up in Ventrilo. Makes sure to set a reasonable duration for the gaming speech command, say 3 seconds or however long you want, and you're set.

Now, when you say the gaming speech command, the speech command triggers the Ventrilo PTT key for however long you set the duration, then releases. In effect, tazti is still listening when you trigger Ventrilo, but rather than limiting tazti (and hence your gameplay) while you have Ventrilo running, you are limiting Ventrilo except when you really want it while tazti is always running. Our experience is that a lot game players only use Ventrilo for short bursts of speech anyway (commands, directions, short back and forths over strategy ) etc. Depending on your game play style, you could set up a number of different gaming speech commands each of which triggers the Ventrilo PTT button for different durations, so you can manage closely how long Ventrilo is on.

If you're careful about the commands that you pick for your gaming commands so they don't overlap much with the things you typically talk about using Ventrilo, then you should have very little problem with triggering tazti when using Ventrilo in bursts.

Michael
team tazti
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I've been using Tazti now for a little over a month, and I love it 99%. I can honestly say I wouldn't have been able to play Deus Ex: Human Revolution without the aid of Tazti.

My only suggestion for Tazti would be to add a Global Push to Mute key to prevent accidental command execution. This would be a huge feature for Ventrillo users and for little interruptions when someone ask you questions.

Example: If someone enters my gaming area to ask a quick question, it would be so much easier to shortly press a mute key to speak freely than to speak "Stop Human Revolution", "Mute Computer Microphone", speak freely, then "Activate Computer Microphone", "Start Human Revolution". Quite a mouthful just to briefly speak.

The ability to make Tazti mute while you speak in Ventrilo by assigning a mute key to Tazti as the same key to push to talk in Vent would be awesome. It's been done before in other voice command programs with less features than Tazti, so I'm confident and hopeful you'll implement this in the future.

Ken]]> coyoterys Suggestions Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:25:32 -0500 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?15,214,221#msg-221 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?15,214,221#msg-221
Great! I'm glad everything is now working.

We are currently offering two tazti licenses for the purchase price, so that you can run it on up two machines simultaneously. In addition, there is a way you can just deactivate it from your old machine and then reactivate on your new machine - meaning that you transfer your license to the new machine. In this way you could move your licenses from two existing machines, sell them, but two new machines, then install tazti on the new machines and activate them and you're good to go, no need for an additional purchase. This should keep things simple for you if you need to move to a new machine.

We would greatly appreciate if you could spread the word about tazti around at AbleGamers and other place you think appropriate.

Keep us in the loop on how things are going with tazti.

Regards,
Michael
team tazti
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I am not affiliated with AbleGamers, however I have visited the sight frequently. It was how I learned of Say2Play voice command software. I will gladly spread the word on AbleGamers that Tazti is a far superior program to S2P in every aspect.

I'm in the process of building a new PC. If I buy Tazti now on my current PC will I be able to install it on my new PC and enter my key to activate it again?]]> coyoterys Other tazti Features Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:21:39 -0500 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?15,214,219#msg-219 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?15,214,219#msg-219
tazti does let you control the time duration between keystrings, but it may not be obvious how to do this. We discovered early on the timing issue you asked about - many games (we're talking about you Guild Wars!) have unique timing requirements, and we built tazti to try to accommodate these quirks. Follow these instructions to fix the problem:

1) Double click your gaming profile (or create one and open it) to view the list of gaming speech commands in the profile
2) Click on the gaming macro speech command (or create one) so that you can edit it
3) On the pane where you edit the keystrings for the gaming macro speech command there is a button named 'Troubleshoot' -click this button to view a new pop up screen
4) There are two dropdowns on this screen - the first controls the time duration between the 'Macro Start Key' and the 'Macro Action Text' and the second controls the duration between each of the keystrings in the 'Macro Action Text' as well as the timing between that and the 'Macro End Key'.
5) Adjust the timing, hit save and see if it works.
6) If the first timing adjustment does't work keep fooling with it until you find the right timing.


Notice the last step in the instructions -- 'Keep fooling around til you get it'. This is something you may have to do a bit of to get it work. In fact you're already started by realizing that for Magicka it is necessary to have use a 'Enter' for the 'Macro Start'. We've seen people do some amazing things with tazti using it for things we never thought of or intended it to do (one guy figured out how to drive his lego mindostorm robot through a maze by speaking commands through tazti) by fooling around with tazti. One simple example of this is that we built the 'Macro Gaming Command' to be able to handle sending macros to MMORPG games (example [/]bow[enter] to make my gnome warrior bow in WoW) - but we quickly realized that it could accommodate any number of situations where you have to handle a series of independent keystrokes. So while the macro gaming speech command interface is set up to for sending macros to MMORPGs you could just as easily use it send pre-built phrases or sentences to notepad or any other program.

Please let me know whether my recommendation for fixing the timing issue helps or note.

Best,
Michael
team tazti
Support Lead

P.S. I am very glad that you're able to get a lot of value out of tazti. Are you connected with or know about the AbleGamers group?]]> admin Other tazti Features Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:50:45 -0500 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?2,204,218#msg-218 http://www.tazti.com/forums/read.php?2,204,218#msg-218
Thanks,
Michael
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