Hi All,


I'm trying Dictation Bridge on my Windows 10 Creators netbook. My setup 
is NVDA and Microsoft Speech Recognition. Initial results aren't great. 
Part of the problem seems to be Dictation Bridge. Part seems to be the 
speech recognition software. I'm posting here to understand how to 
improve things.


I installed the add-on last night and set up speech recognition--all as 
described on the Dictation Bridge website:
http://dictationbridge.com/docs/
  That went well though a couple of things weren't clear to me from the 
documentation:

* After installing the add-on, I had to restart the netbook for things 
to work.

* Before using my voice for the first time during a session, I need to 
go into the overflow area (i.e., press Windows+B, arrow to the 
notification chevron, press the space bar once, then press the left 
arrow once) to find the speech recognition icon. After that, I need to 
press space bar to open its context menu, then find and check the option 
that says something like, "Speech recognition is listening."

* After turning on speech recognition for the session, I just say, 
"Start listening," or "Listen to me," then issue commands or start 
dictation.

* When dictating, I need to stop speaking when the screen reader starts 
reading what's been typed. When the screen reader is done, I can 
continue dictating without having to say, "Start listening" again.

Everything I've said to this point is pretty consistent and predictable.

Here are some of my issues:

* To stop speech recognition, you're supposed to say, "Stop listening," 
or "Go to Sleep." Neither of these commands are working for me. I need 
to go back into the Speech Recognition context menu to check the box 
that says something like, "Go to sleep."

Is there a setting somewhere I need to change?

* My results are hit and miss. The documentation says to speak clearly 
and do more training sessions. I've done some of both, but some results 
are still rough. For example, I said, "Oh, my goodness," and the text 
that appeared on the screen was, "in a bit."

Is recognition going to improve over time on its own, or do I need to 
keep retraining, etc.

* Right now I'm using the netbook's built-in microphone, which sometimes 
gives me great results, and other times, not so much. When I plug in a 
microphone, do I go through speech recognition set up all over again, or 
will the netbook figure it out?

Thanks for any help.

Ciao


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