Voice recognition not working at all (Windows 10)

[Dragonmount 5]

I'm trying to get VOX ATC set up to respond to my voice, and the manual suggests setting up voice recognition on windows to help set it up. However, yesterday before I read this, it was at least kind of reading my voice on the setup, but now it's not reading at all. I don't know what I could have done. My microphone checks out, it works, but nothing is happening when I speak into the microphone on the voice recognition setup 

[zmak 331]

Did you do the speech tutorial first?

this article describes it . 

 

https://www.techspot.com/community/topics/speech-recognition-not-working-in-windows-7.159091/

 

[Dragonmount 5]

I wound up fixing it, turned out I had turned off something that it needed, but I still can't get VOX to recognize my voice, does speech recognition need to be on while using it or not?

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

Off. The built-in SR utility will conflict with VOXATC if the utility is set to either sleep mode or always on. If Windows recognizes your voice correctly, VOXATC will also. Windows has a generic SR training utility. The VOXATC Flight Plan Trainer adapted the Windows training utility to be specific to the words used in  a specific flight plan. Microsoft takes a lot of grief for some of its missteps, but the Text to Speech and Speech Recognition in Windows 10 is very solid.

[Dragonmount 5]

So any ideas why it won't recognize my voice at all? I do the radio check as a test, and the ground control never responds to me, and I take that as a sign that it's not set up properly

[zmak 331]

Did you go to joystick set up in vox atc? You need to set up a push to talk button I think. Im not at the sim so not 100% but you need to set up your key board/joystick anyway

go to all programs on your pc and then select vox atc and the joystick set up

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

The default PTT is spacebar on the keyboard. Hold the spacebar down, talk, release the spacebar.

[Dragonmount 5]

Didn't even occur to me I'll certainly do that, I feel like a dunce. Thanks!

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

6 hours ago, Dragonmount said:

Didn't even occur to me I'll certainly do that, I feel like a dunce. Thanks!

Haha. I remember doing something similar before I decided to read the VOXATC manual. What was even dumber on my part is that in real life the headsets have PTT switches and they work the same way.

A word to VOXATC demo users. Definitely start with running the tutorial flight plans and making a careful reading of the users manual. Doing so prevents a lot of frustration.

[Dragonmount 5]

By the way, do you hold down the talk button, or just press it?

[john1383 3]

Hold it...and don't speak until you have held it for say a second, and don't release it until say a second after finishing what you have said....or you may be asked to "say again".

It is all too easy to release the button too soon!

[vgbaron 3,620]

Been there, done that - got the T shirt!

Vic

[Dragonmount 5]

Thank you everyone for the help! I'm looking forward to trying this out properly, I figured it was user error on my part that was making it not work :).

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

If you want to make it a bit easier, turn on the First Officer mode in the settings and then activate the FO mode in VOXATC. The FO will handle the radios and communicate with ATC.