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Dragonfly-Based Voice Programming and Accessibility Toolkit
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Free Dictation intermittently not recognized within applications? #221

Closed LexiconCode closed 6 years ago

LexiconCode commented 6 years ago

This is most likely a bug within Dragon NaturallySpeaking itself but I want to understand if other people are experiencing it.

The description of the problem can be described as freely dictating within an application all the sudden Dragon NaturallySpeaking doesn't recognize free dictation. However it does recognize global commands within the same application.

So if you have application A and B

When dictating in application A DNS suddenly stops recognizing dictation "please say that again" Bringing B application in the foreground and dictate everything works as expected. If you quickly switch back to Application A Free dictation is still unrecognized. In the event that you stay in application B long enough a number of minutes and switch back to A the issue may resolve itself. If you try to wait it out an application A may or may not resolve.

chilimangoes commented 6 years ago

I don't think I've experienced this. What version of DNS are you using?

LexiconCode commented 6 years ago

I have experienced it with DNS 13, 14 and 15. The frequency seems to become much more pronounced in 14 and 15. I'll make a video of it next time and post as a example.

Versatilus commented 6 years ago

I've never experienced this myself. Does this happen with different programs?

chilimangoes commented 6 years ago

That would my next question. If it happens with a specific program or programs. I actually don't use free dictation in many programs. When I need to do dictation rather than code, I tend to mostly dictate into notepad and then copy/paste.

Actually, now that I think about it... I have had problems with dictation stopping working in Outlook 365. But I have so many other problems with Outlook that I figured it was Outlook's fault.

LexiconCode commented 6 years ago

It can happen with any program even those that aren't supported by dragonfly or caster. That makes me think it's a bug related to DNS. The only thing I have Not tested is whether or not it's a side effect of using NatLink causing a bug within DNS.

LexiconCode commented 6 years ago

Closing this issue but others can feel free to post the find they have a issue similar to this as described.