Speech recognition calibration

[delude]

Why can I not get this to work?
I try to 'calibrate' it and have repeated the stupid lines time after time, clearly and slowly in a quiet environment, but they never flash or indicate that it is calibrated.

What can I do?

 

[Tesselator]

Sounds like is not accepting input from the mic. - So Apple has you talking to yourself aye? 🙂

What mic. do you have, how is it connected, and what are the system settings?

 

[JediMeister]

Check Sound in System Preferences and verify that in the Input tab you have the internal mic or your external mic selected, and also that the input level meter appears to be picking up noise.

 

[delude]

Yesh! I must have sounded like a loser to my family 😱

I want to use the internal mic, which is selected as the input and the levels move (in all the places that there are levels).

 

[Tesselator]

Yesh! I must have sounded like a looser to my family 😱

What do you mean sounded looser? Your vocal chords are sagging? Or just overly casual speech?

 

[delude]

What do you mean sounded looser? Your vocal chords are sagging? Or just overly casual speech?

lol, *loser.

Anyways, I still can't get this to work.

 

[old-wiz]

Have you tried the mic on a different Mac?
tried the mic with a different application?

 

[delude]

I'm starting to think perhaps I can't get it to work because of my English accent? The mic is fine, and works with everything else, but I cannot for the life of me get the commands to blink and calibrate.

 

[Tesselator]

I'm starting to think perhaps I can't get it to work because of my English accent? The mic is fine, and works with everything else, but I cannot for the life of me get the commands to blink and calibrate.

Speaking commands? Is that separate from voice training it? Where it has you read a story to it. Have you done that yet?

 

[delude]

Speaking commands? Is that separate from voice training it? Where it has you read a story to it. Have you done that yet?

I don't understand? If I go to speech under System Preferences, and then Speech Recognition, there is a calibration button. After clicking this it tells you that you must read the commands out, and that they will blink when said correctly. I can read these out forever, but they don't blink and it clearly doesn't work.