In your case, that bar does not display anything no matter how loud you yell. When working properly, VoiceAttack will display a moving bar at the bottom of its main screen when you talk into your microphone. Try switching this off to see if that helps things out a bit (I've had personal experience with this - turning off software noise reduction made the speech engine very responsive without having to talk loudly). If that does not fix your issue, please read on )ĮDIT 2 - Something that has been coming up a lot as of late is, 'noise reduction' software that comes with some headsets is on by default. I'm finding that it's quite common for other software to interfere with this configuration of the speech engine. 'VoiceAttack does not listen to what I am saying at all'ĮDIT - Before you go digging through all this, please try something out first: Open the VoiceAttack options window, and try checking the box labeled, 'Disable Acoustic Echo Cancellation' on the 'Recognition' tab.

Below are a few situations, a whole lot of rambling, and then some things to try (including new speech engines!) ) This post is going to try to help out with the most common issues and questions when dealing with VoiceAttack's speech recognition functionality, based on different experiences I've had over the years. Since it seemed like each issue was unique, it always felt like a stretch to try to make a help guide, however, as interest in VoiceAttack has grown, some form of help in a central place is becoming necessary.

I will get messages from time to time, each with its own unique set of circumstances along with a user that has their own unique set of skills (that may be you - you've probably been sent here by me via email -welcome!). Your system may or may not be configured with all that is necessary to get that speech engine to light up right away, even if you have a brand new installation. If your locale is not one of those listed, I *think* you will get an English speech engine (not sure what's going on nowadays… my installations always occur in Texas, so, English it is ) ).

If your installation is English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese or Chinese, you will get a built-in speech engine in your language.

Out of the box, Windows will (usually) come with a built-in speech engine. On a properly-configured system, the speech engine will usually work with little or no fuss. VoiceAttack uses the Windows speech engine for its speech recognition functionality.

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