Speech Saver - A utility to automatically turn off Vista's Speech Recognition

CREATED ISSUE: Add "Stop Listening" option

gduncan411 — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:10:40 GMT

Instead of turning SR off, I'd like to also add a "Stop Listening" option... I tried to add this for 1.0.0.0 but wasn't able to find an easy way to accomplish it. Tried EmulateRecongition("Stop Listening"), but that didn't work (i.e. the shared recognition engine didn't stop listening... It didn't error, it just didn't do anything). Need to R&D into this to find out what I'm doing wrong (probably not loading the Grammer right, or something...)

UPDATED RELEASE: Speech Saver 1.0.1.1 Beta (Apr 28, 2007)

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:22:13 GMT

See project home page for release details.

Source code checked in

gduncan411 — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:51:45 GMT

1.0.1.1 Release

UPDATED RELEASE: Speech Saver 1.0.0.0 Beta (Apr 28, 2007)

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:49:42 GMT

This is the initial release (i.e. it works on my machine ;)

CREATED RELEASE: Speech Saver 1.0.1.1 Beta (Apr 28, 2007)

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:48:10 GMT

Added

UPDATED WIKI: Home

gduncan411 — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:46:06 GMT

This is a very simple system tray utility written in VB.Net (2005) to turn off Vista's Speed Recognition (SR) after a few minutes with no activity.

Released History

1.0.1.1 Released 4/28/2007

Added Seconds control and support
 
Changed Minute minimum from 1 to 0
	To allow for 30, etc second timeouts
	0 Minute, 0 Second timeout will revert to a 1 Minute timeout
 
Update to check to see if Speech Recognition is running before attempting to connect to Shared Recognition Engine
	Now it SR is not running, launching this utility will not start it up.
	
Updated to watch Windows Messages to see if SR is started up or exited while the SpeechSaver is running
	If SR is started, then the timer is reset 
	If SR is stopped, then the timer is stopped.
 
Added "Startup with Windows" option
	If clicked, the app will be added to the user's RUN Registry key
	
Added application version number to the titlebar
	This makes it easier for the user and me to identify which version they are running

1.0.0.0 Released 4/28/2007
Initial public release

Notes

Currently SR is turned Off when the timeout is reached. I'm currently looking into also providing a "Sleep" option as well.

Thanks

I'd like to thank Rob, Eric, Alex and the rest of the Vista SR team for their help on this project and for Vista's SR (which is a seriously undersung cool Vista feature)

Screenshot

UPDATED WIKI: Home

gduncan411 — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:04:24 GMT

This is a very simple system tray utility written in VB.Net (2005) to turn off Vista's Speed Recognition (SR) after a few minutes with no activity.

Notes

Currently SR is turned Off when the timeout is reached. I'm currently looking into also providing a "Sleep" option as well.

I'll may be adding a "Startup with Windows" option (i.e. auto add/remove from the User's Startup folder).

If SR is not running when the Speech Saver is launched, then SR will be automatically started. I'm not sure how I feel about this and may try to make the application a smarter in this reguard.

Thanks

I'd like to thank Rob, Eric, Alex and the rest of the Vista SR team for their help on this project and for Vista's SR (which is a seriously undersung cool Vista feature)

Screenshot

Source code checked in

gduncan411 — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:03:37 GMT

Initial release, 1.0.0.0

CREATED RELEASE: Speech Saver 1.0.0.0 Beta

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:02:12 GMT

This is the initial release (i.e. it works on my machine ;)

UPDATED WIKI: Home

gduncan411 — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:53:43 GMT

This is a very simple system tray utility written in VB.Net (2005) to turn off Vista's Speed Recognition (SR) after a few minutes with no activity.

!!Notes
Currently SR is turned Off when the timeout is reached. I'm currently looking into also providing a "Sleep" option as well.

I'll may be adding a "Startup with Windows" option (i.e. auto add/remove from the User's Startup folder).

If SR is not running when the Speech Saver is launched, then SR will be automatically started. I'm not sure how I feel about this and may try to make the application a smarter in this reguard.

!!Thanks
I'd like to thank Rob, Eric, Alex and the rest of the Vista SR team for their help on this project and for Vista's SR (which is a seriously undersung cool Vista feature)

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!!Screenshots