Description: Display the weather satellite (for New York)

Phrase: (?:Display|Show)(?:.*?)?(?:satellite|clouds)(?:.*?)?(?:for |of |in )?(.*?)?

Action: https://weather.weatherbug.com/maps/$1?layerId=GlobalSatellite

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Phrase: (?:Display|Show)(?:.*?)?(?:moon)(?:.*?)?(phase)?

Action: http://api.usno.navy.mil/imagery/moon.png

Description: You can say: "Show me the moon" or "Display the current moon phase"

Jeff
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Phrase: (?:Display|Show)(?:.*?)?(?:rain|radar)(?:.*?)?(?:for |of |in )?(.*?)?
Action: https://weather.weatherbug.com/maps/$1?layerId=Radar.US

Description: Display the radar (for New York)

Phrase: (?:Display|Show)(?:.*?)?(?:traffic)(?:.*?)?(?:for |of |in )?(.*?)?

Action: https://www.google.com/maps/place/$1/data=!5m1!1e1

Description: Show me the traffic (for Los Angeles)

I need turkish language

To change the speech recognition language to Turkish, In Speech Recognition Anywhere, click on "Settings" and then under "Language" you can select "Turkish".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Control Philips Hue Lights

1. Go to www.meethue.com/api/nupnp to get the IP address of your Hue Bridge.
2. Go to http://<bridge ip address>/debug/clip.html/debug/clip.html
3. For url enter: /api for message body enter: {"devicetype":"jeff"}
Where jeff is the username you want to create.
4. Press POST
5. You will get the message "link button not pressed". So press the big round link button on top of your Hue Bridge.
6. Press POST again.
7. This time you get a username hash similar to 1028d66426293e821ecfd9ef1a0731df . Save the username hash for future requests.

Then create a custom command in Speech Recognition Anywhere:

Phrase: Turn( on)?( the)? living room light(s)?( on)?
Action: http://<bridge ip address>/debug/clip.html;clear_text();/api/<username hash>/lights/1/state;click_keyword(messagebody);{"on":true};click_keyword(put)

Je

Description: Youtube (any video)

Phrase: Youtube (.*?)

Action: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=$1;click_element(thumbnail)

Jeff
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Description: "Play (title of song or video)" with youtube

Phrase: ^Play (.*?)$

Action: http://www.google.com/search?q=youtube $0;click_element(res.a[0])


Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Description: What is the UV index in New York

Phrase: (?:What|Display|Show)(?:.*?)(?:UV index)(?:.*?)?(?:for |of |in )?(.*?)?

Action: http://sunburnmap.com/;;;;;clear_text();$1;click_keyword(find)

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com

I am not a programmer, so I need some help. I want to be able to switch Speech Recognition from English to Spanish and vice versa. Is there a script I can use for this? Any help will be greatly appreciated

June 20, 2017 - From the Editor:
Version 0.98.8 now has the voice command built in "Change the language to spanish or english"

I just purchased and installed your speech software. I have installed it on a Windows Tablet running Windows 10 home (full version).

My only interest in your software is to enable OK Google which I have done and it is working. The problem is OK Google responds and takes me away from the web page an example:

"OK Google navigate to DC", the map page comes up with route shown and Google says "navigating to DC" and the page goes somewhere else.

I have tried this in various ways asking questions etc and everytime Google speaks, your software interprets it and types new pages.

Please advise.

Hi Paul Lazar,

Sorry about the problem you are having. It is because the microphone is picking up the speech from your speakers. Try this, in Speech Recognition Anywhere click on Settings and then check Pause "Speech Recognition Anywhere" if audio is playing in a tab. I believe that should solve the problem.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Is there anyway to stop the text from appearing in the upper left hand corner before it is typed in the speech box? Also, is there a way to stop the yellow highlighting and scrolling when text is entered?

Hello Lola,

There is no way to stop the text from appearing before it is typed into the box. That is how users know that the speech recognition is hearing what they say. I'm not sure by what you mean about the yellow highlighting and scrolling. Do you have an example website and box where this is happening?

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Nice software, just what I'm looking for, but unfortunately doesn't quite work for me on ankiweb.net. This site displays a link that I repeatedly click to hear voice prompts. When I try to do this using SRE, the recording starts to play but then I get a 404. I'm having trouble getting the source for the page, but I think what is going on is that the recording is played by a JavaScript snippet which is connected to the link as an onClick attribute. The location specified by the link doesn't really exist, so, e.g., if I right-click on the link and copy the destination to the clipboard and try to load it in another page, I do indeed get a 404. But if I manually click on the link, it works as designed -- i.e., it plays the voice recording and does not try to go to another page.

So I'm not sure of the disconnect here, and unfortunately you won't be able to repro easily without my credentials. If you want to pursue it, I'll give you my creds (and $150 if you make this work on ankiweb).

Thanks for the info Jeff.

Hi Nelson,

I think I figured it out. ankiweb.net has another element overlaying the "Play" link with a javascript click event attached to it. So to use your voice and say "Click Play", add this custom command to Speech Recognition Anywhere:

Phrase: Click Play
Action: click_element(jp_container_1)

Or, if you like you can replace "Click Play" in the phrase above with "Press Play".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Nice work, Jeff -- this works for me.

Hi. You should make an option to hide the labels when speaking. They are highly annoying when not using it, and it keeps trying to detect what im saying.

Another thing that would be geat is to disable speech to text and only ahve it work with commands.

Hi Kim,

Thanks for the suggestions! I like the idea of being able to disable speech to text and only have it work with commands. But I'm not so sure about hiding the labels when speaking. I think most people would be confused and think that the Speech Recognition is not working because it would show no sign of it working until after they finish talking. Let me think about it and see what I can do.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Kim V,

In version 0.98.9 of Speech Recognition Anywhere I added the following three settings:
*Disable yellow speech bubble (Only final speech will display)
*Disable Speech-To-Text (Only Voice Commands will work)
*Disable Voice Commands (Only Speech-To-Text will work)

I hope that works for you.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff.

You are awesome! Nice to see a suggestions getting into final product :)

Hi Samuel Cartaxo,

Thank you for notifying me of the error. Some people get the error and others don't. But Google seems to be doing nothing about it. How often do you get the error?

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hello!
I am curious what you are using internally for ASR and TTS?
Are you using google's speech API, or built-in browser-specific tools from chrome?
Thanks!
-thomas

Hi thomas,

Speech Recognition in Speech Recognition Anywhere is accomplished with the Javascript Web Speech API which at this time only works well in Chrome.
See: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API

TTS is accomplished with the Web Speech API SpeechSynthesis. It seems to work with Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari but not IE.
See: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesis

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Will this work with Chromium browser. I have a project involving a Raspberry Pi and I would like to open web pages and navigate them with voice.

Hi whelb5050,

I think it will work with Chromium browser. But I have no idea if it will work with Raspberry Pi. Can you test it and let us know?

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

is there a way to disable profanity filter? Thank you.

For some reason this extension does not work on facebook chat (chat window close itself for no reason, speech to text works fine tough). Any help?

Successful test on the Raspberry Pi. This saved our school project from failure.

Hi whelb5050,

That is good to hear! I'm glad it worked. Thank you for letting us know.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi bodyalive,

You can try to filter profanity with a custom command like the following. I'm not sure how well it will work though:

Phrase: (.*?)(bad|word|list)(.*?)
Action: $1$3

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Markey,

I have duplicated the problem. It appears that Facebook might have some blocking in place to prevent malware or viruses from sending messages without user permission. I noticed that if I type a space first in the Facebook chat box then it will accept Speech Recognition Anywhere. But saying "Press enter" or "Submit" does not send the message. You have to manually press the enter key.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

QUOTE "

You can try to filter profanity with a custom command like the following. I'm not sure how well it will work though:

Phrase: (.*?)(bad|word|list)(.*?)
Action: $1$3"

i'M SORRY this did not work,
i know how to Stop Android's Voice-to-Text from Blocking Swear Words, i wonder if there's a way disable censorship in chrome too.

Hi bodyalive,

Sorry, I misread your message. I thought you wanted to block profanity.

The web speech api in Chrome used to not filter out profanity but now it does. But I can't find any settings for how to stop it from filtering profanity. You can try the following custom command, but you would have to make a separate command for each swear word:

Phrase: (.*?)(s\*+)(.*?)
Action: $1ship$3

Replace the s in the phrase with the first letter of the swear word for each custom command.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Jeff this did the trick!

Since some "bad words" share same first letter i had to use (.*?)(1stletter\*{n})(.*?) to specify one from another.

thank you.

How well does this extension handle peoples names? For instance, I am building a directory for our college professors. I would like to say show Dr. John Doe, and have it pull up his contact information, however some of the professor's names are quite hard to pronounce.

Hi bodyalive,

Thanks for letting us know! I'm glad it worked. It looks like you know some regular expressions. Good job!

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi whelb5050,

The speech recognition seems to do really well for common names. Dr. John Doe works good and many other common names. For uncommon names, if it gets it wrong then you could try creating a custom command. For example, here is an uncommon spelling of a name: "Alexus Rodrigues". If I say that name then the speech recognition prints out the common spelling of "Alexis Rodriguez". So assuming I do not have an Alexis Rodriguez in the database I could create this custom command:

Phrase: Alexis Rodriguez
Action: Alexus Rodrigues

I hope that helps,

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

the buy option at chrome appstore is grayed out, and I can't buy it. Can you guys help me out?

Hi Maicon,

I don't know why, but it appears that the Chrome Web Store blocks some countries from buying. Some users have had success by clicking on the Settings button in Chrome Web Store and changing their country to one of the supported countries. See: developer.chrome.com/webstore/pricing

Other users have had success by using a VPN service like HotSpot Shield (also a chrome extension) to change their country temporarily.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thank you! I've managed to purchase successfully. BTW do you guys know a custom command to play music on youtube, better than using the google search engine? sometimes it doesn't play the song, but a cover.

How do we control capital letters? In the Windows Voice Rec, use UPPERCASE results in WORD ; Capitalize results in Word, same for lowercase and NoCaps. I can't get SR Anywhere to do this.
Also, how to control numeral 1 vs the word or thirteen vs 13 or one thousand eighty seven vs 1087.
It may be the way I speak, but if I say "and" alone, the software takes me to the end of the line but if I say "they went and" it works fine.
I've processed about 1000 lines so far and these are challenges for me. Works very well otherwise, names are fantastic.

One other thing I've noticed, the word "O'CLOCK" when spoken, pops up the word "OK" but prints nothing.

Hi Maicon,

Have you tried the custom commands in comments 8 and 9 for playing music? You might be able to come up with a variation of one those commands.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi JohnS,

Thank you for your feedback. Speech Recognition Anywhere uses the Web Speech API built-in to Chrome so unfortunately we are somewhat limited by the capabilities that Google has programmed into the speech recognition.

Google's Web Speech API doesn't seem to have an "all caps" or "uppercase" command, so I would have to program it myself to have that capability.

As for numbers. Google seems to like to turn most numbers into numerals instead of words. Probably because they are assuming people are filling out forms or setting calendar events or reminders.

As for saying "and" taking you to the end of the line. I programmed that command because, sometimes when I said "end" by itself the speech recognition thought I was saying "and", and I didn't think anyone would be saying "and" by itself. But I will remove that in the next version so that "and" will print.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi JohnS,

You are right. I didn't notice that before. Google's Web Speech API seems to not understand "o'clock". I tried it over and over. I would say "seven o'clock" and it would just print "7".

But I found a very strange workaround. If I say "seven clock" without the "o" then it prints "7 o'clock".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I have to create a command to stop an youtube video, so I tried using the command to close the tab or to press the spacebar, but I'm not managing to make it work, sorry, I don't know much about those things.

Hi Maicon,

If you say "Click on pause" or "press pause" on the youtube page then it should pause the video. But if your speakers are too loud or the microphone is too close to the speakers then it may not understand you properly. You can also say "Click on play" or "press play" to start the video again.

Also make sure that the Setting 'Pause "Speech Recognition Anywhere" if audio is playing in a tab'
is not checked. Otherwise Speech Recognition will not work while audio is playing.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thank you Jeff, your assistance is helping me a lot. It worked but, it works only if you say it in english right? Is it possible to make it work in another language? For example brazilian portuguese.

Hi Maicon,

I have been wanting to translate all of the commands into Portuguese. But I don't speak Portuguese. If you would like to help that would be greatly appreciated. In the meantime you can try these custom commands. In youtube there is a play button with an aria-label of "Pause" while a video is playing and it changes to "Play" when the video is paused. To confirm it is the same for your browser, you can go into Developer Tools (CTRL+SHIFT+I) while at youtube, click on the "Console" tab and paste the following statement and then press enter:
document.getElementsByClassName("ytp-play-button")[0]

See if the aria-label says "Pause" when the video is playing and "Play" when the video is paused. Here are the custom commands that you can alter to your liking:

Phrase: Pressione play
Action: click_keyword(play)

Phrase: Pressione pausa
Action: click_keyword(pause)

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

You're awesome Jeff! And how can I help to translate? I would like to!

Just recently I've begun having problems navigating to my homepage. It keeps bringing up a new tab and going to google.com even though that is not my homepage in chrome. Any suggestions? I've tried a custom command but no luck.

Hi Maicon,

In Speech Recognition Anywhere if you click on "Commands". I'd like to translate all those commands into Portuguese. If you could send those commands translated to me in an email that would be great. I had someone help me translate just the punctuation section into Portuguese. But I'm not sure if it is completely correct. You could check on that.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi whelb5050,

Unfortunately Google keeps changing things. You can try this though for your custom command. In the action field put your home page address, but make sure you start with http://
So for example:

Phrase: Go home
Action: http://seabreezecomputers.com/

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

How can I command "tab and enter" in the custom comands?? You only wrote for enter which is enter_key() . But I have no idea what is it for tab??

Thank you!

Hi Heeelp,

The command to switch fields is switch_fields()

Out of curiosity, are you trying to translate the commands into another language?

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi JohnS,

The latest version of Speech Recognition Anywhere (0.99.7) now has the ability to do toUpperCase. Here is an example custom command:

Phrase: (?:uppercase|all caps) (.*?)

Action: $1.toUpperCase()

Description: Say "Uppercase hello world" to print "HELLO WORLD"

There are many new scripting commands also and you can see them at: seabreezecomputers.com/speech/#scripting

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Copy and clipboard(copy) dosn't work for me .

Hi Jasmin A.

I'm sorry about the problem. I see the problem myself but it was working just last week. It appears to not be working correctly on pages with iFrames, specifically pages with Google Adsense iFrames. It seems Google has changed some code just recently. I have done some testing and it looks like I will have to make Speech Recognition Anywhere not copy in iFrames. This will cause a problem with a few websites because some websites put a lot of their content in iFrames. But it is the only solution I can think of. I will put a new version up with the bug fix within a few days. Thank you for pointing it out.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I have another problem.It's force to use uppercase for the first character . It's messed up custom comands.

Hi Jasmine A.

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to do uppercase for the first character at the moment. It just automatically does uppercase for the first character after punctuation like a period or a question mark. I tried to come up with a custom command for it but the way it is programmed at the moment it doesn't work. I will try to come up with a solution.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Re SR Anywhere

Is it always on/listening whether or not Chrome tab open?

Thanks

DD

Hi Jeff < > is no longer working . Please give me an alternative way.Thank you.

Hello DD,

No, Speech Recognition Anywhere is only listening if it's tab is open and you see a red "On" badge on the extension icon.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jasmin A.

I don't understand. Can you provide more details on what is not working?

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

drive.google.com/file/d/1otBW9CN3K7LzNGq6uKSKB4r0ZM6AhKS8/view?usp=sharing

Hi Jasmin A.

Thank you for the clarification. It is actually inserting the HTML into the textarea so to actually print the < > characters you have to use the html entity &lt; and &gt; but ; needs to be url encoded to %3B

So the full action would look like:

&lt%3Btext&gt%3B

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thank you Jeff.

Hi Jasmin A.

In the latest version of Speech Recognition Anywhere there are number of improvements that you might be interested in. I think I fixed the "copy" command bug. Also created a custom command capitalize_first_letter(text, all_words) which will convert the first letter of text to a capital. If all_words is true then every first letter of every word in text will be converted to a capital. The default is false. For example:

Phrase: capitalize (.*?)

Action: capitalize_first_letter($1, true)

Description: Say "Capitalize hello world" to print "Hello World"

Also created a new command print_text(text) where you can easily print any text including < > ( ) and ;

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/ >

Thank you for your update.I already test them .
copy , print_text,capitalize_first_letter(text) is working properly .

If possible please add case-sensitive feature because it's cause alot of problems.
-print_text(x=0; ) -> X=0;
-jQuery -> JQuery
-email@domain.com -> Email@domain.com //weird
-username (case-sensitive) -> Username

Some web application need case-sensitive .
1.custom command:productname's id Action : book0001 (id)
result: Book0001
2. custom command:productbrand's coupon Action : november99
result: November99
3.Fill an option text field need case-sensitive i.e. 'full' has to be 'full' not 'Full'.

Hi Jasmin A.

Sorry about that. It is designed to capitalize for normal sentences not for coding. I'll see what I can do for a future version.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thank you Jeff.
It's not designed for coding but there're many people who try to use it for coding .They are more than willing to pay if this working.

I can't fill the fields correctly.
https://jsfiddle.net/mayza123/vz9q45da/

Hi Jasmin A.

Would you recommend an option in Settings to disable auto capitalization or a custom command?

By the way, at the moment Speech Recognition Anywhere is designed to not capitalize on html inputs if it detects that the input type is email, search or password or if the input name is username, email or login.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Detect input name is not working on many websites.
Here're my suggestions.
1.Custom command print_text able to do 'case-sensitive' and not affected by global settings.

2.Disable option settings won't completely fix the issue.
Use toggle function. Do it by default before send text out. Make dropdown options in settings [lower,sentence,raw]

Google's Web Speech API is random capitalize english word in some languages settings.
I say 'you kill my dog'
result: You Kill My Dog.[1]

Create command that will toggle the letter case settings.
lettercase(text,lower)//all lowercase
lettercase(text,sentence)//Convert to sentence case fix this issue[1].
lettercase(text,raw)//Default .Do not fix the letter case.
I say:'lower no'
It'll give me 'no' and every first letter will be lowercase until I use another function.

Phrase:lower(*.$)Action:lettercase($1,lower)

Since lowercase will be used often and user switch to sentence case often .toLowerCase() is not suitable.Toggle is b

Hi Jasmin A.

Thank you for the suggestions. In order for it to detect the input name it has to be written like this in the html form:
<input name="email"> or <input type="email">

But I think I found a temporary workaround to preserve case for the first letter. If you use the html entity decimal version of the lower case letter and then url encode the semicolon. So to print x=5;

Action: &#120%3B=5%3B

There is a list of html entity decimal codes here: www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hello, can you disable the auto-adjustment for the mic volume? Or maybe better, give users the option to toggle it.

Hi Maicon,

Speech Recognition Anywhere does not do any adjusting of the mic volume. It may be your sound card or Windows Settings. Here are some Windows Settings instructions to try. These instructions are for Windows 7, so it may be different:

1. Right-click the Speaker icon in the Windows taskbar and select "Recording Devices".
2. Click on the "Communications" tab.
3. For the question: "When Windows detects communications activity:", answer with: "Do nothing".
4. Click "Apply".

Test the microphone and see if it has stopped auto adjusting. If not, then you can try these steps:

1. Right-click the Speaker icon in the Windows taskbar and select "Recording Devices".
2. Make sure the "Recording" tab is selected.
3. Click on your Microphone and the click "Properties".
4. Click the "Advanced" tab.
5. In the "Exclusive Mode" section, uncheck the following option: "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

i want to give command for typing text in capitals,but it not working.what to do for typing all caplital leters.

Hello teja,

Try this custom command to type in all capital letters:

Phrase: (?:uppercase|all caps) (.*?)

Action: $1.toUpperCase()

Description: Say "Uppercase hello world" to print "HELLO WORLD"

Then you can say "Uppercase hello world" or "All caps hello there".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi , i,ve been tring to buy the full version of SPEECH RECOGNITION ANYWHERE , but i simply just cnnot do it ,. How should i do to buy?
thanks

Hi Wilfred,

What country are you in? Apparently Google limits some extensions in some countries. If that is the case the suggestions are to click on "Settings" > "Location" at the Chrome Webstore and change the country to one of the fully supported countries then it worked. For supported countries see: developer.chrome.com/webstore/pricing

Other users have had success by using a VPN service like HotSpot Shield (also a chrome extension) to change their country temporarily.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hello, I have severe neuropathy in my hands so extremely grateful for any and all voice recognition software.

Is there a way to get this work with Google Hangouts?
when I do it it types into my search email bar also...

Also is it possible to complete forms online with radio buttons as options and a few simple number fields? I have to do data entry at work and this would be amazing, life-changing if it works!!

THANK YOU

I'm having a similar issue with Google Sheets. it types into the name of the sheet ... Like when I type "4" into a cell, it just renames the sheet

I'm not even sure if what I'm asking is feasible.... But I'm buying the extension regardless. It's the best one out there. Thank you!!

Hi Holly,

If the website uses a properly made html form then you should be able to use Speech Recognition Anywhere on it with no problem. For example: If they label the radio buttons correctly to select gender then you should be able to say "Click on female" and it should check it.

However, some forms are not labeled properly. One way around this is to say "Next" and "Previous" to navigate between fields. Then when the correct radio button is highlighted you can say "Click" or "Check".

As for Google Hangouts, they have blocked sending unless you press the enter key with the keyboard. They have done this to try and prevent malware from sending messages without your permission. If you find it is typing speech in the email search bar as well then you might want to use the direct website at hangouts.google.com/.

With Google Sheets, the only way I have found to be able to do speech-to-text in a cell is to double-click each cell first.

Jeff
www.seabreezecompute

Entering data with the forms was actually my top priority anyways. The forms I'm going to complete are created by Duke University so I would think they have correct HTML, phew!

I completely forgot about hangouts.google.com. I will switch to that instead of using it in my email url. I hold my phone up to my mouth all the time like a walkie-talkie to use Hangouts.... And sometimes I just want to sit at just the computer without a phone

Yes, it's going to be extremely useful. A few years ago I looked for something like this and I couldn't find anything at all. The custom scripts sound really cool too. I have a connective tissue disorder (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) so I'll mention this to anyone with hand problems, fibromyalgia type things. Also it's useful for someone with RSI type injuries... I posted on a message board for years called neurotalk.

Windows has really dropped the ball on anything related to speech commands.

Thank you for the thorough reply. Have a good week

Thank you for this innovative extension but I am having this message: The message port closed before a response was received.. NOTE: You must reload the web page you were trying to use speech recognition on before this extension will work on it.
I follow the instructions but I am still not able to dictate even in google search tab. What do I need to do to trouble shoot this?

How about combo characters - I want to control something that requires key entry of shift+space.

Also, is there any way to cut down the latency before sending a command -- say end the phrase with something and it recognizes the command immediately, rather than waiting for a pause and then sending the text and determining it to be a command? I need something with low latency for commands,

Hi Jay,

Unfortunately, commands for pressing keys do not work well unless the website is programmed to actually listen to keypresses. It doesn't work with many websites. Have you tested keypress commands on the website to see if they work? I will try to add a shift keypress in the next version. Do you have a link to the website where I can test it to make sure it works?

Most users don't have a problem with latency. For me it is less than 1 second. It might be a problem with a slow Internet connection or a slow route to google's web speech servers.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi KN,

I'm sorry about the problem you are having. I'm not sure what the cause might be but have you tried restarting the browser? And have you tried a different website besides google?

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thank you Jeff,
I intended to update you. I tried it today and it worked.
I greatly appreciate your help. Your chrome extension is quite innovative.
Also, I tried to order the full version but chrome shuts off. I will order the full version directly from your website. Thanks again.

Hi, I can't get custom commands to work. I tried as an example, Phrase: cheesecake Action: cheezecake, and clicked enable. It still writes "cheesecake". I think you need a few more instructions for this - it looks self-explanatory, but in reality it isn't. Also, most people don't know what regular expressions are (although I do). The whole thing feels like something that you are aiming at developers rather than casual users. The speech recog is the best i've found at this price level, or anything close to this price, so well done there.

hi, just found custom commands don't work in the local typing window, only in other windows. This is the one I prefer to use. Perhaps you could add this feature? Thanks

Hi, can you possibly make the fixed commands optional? I at least need to delete the annoying "Play" command. I cannot believe there is any use to this, and it is very irritating when I say any sentence starting with "Play". It suddenly tries to direct me away to another website. This must presumably help some people a bit, and annoy other people like me a lot. If it were optional, others could still use it. Thanks, D.

Hi d n,

Thank you for the feedback. Yes, the textbox on the Speech Recognition Anywhere tab was meant to be a history box of what a user actually speaks. It was not meant for editing. But I have gradually been adding editing and punctuation to it as users are trying to use it instead of an online notepad. I will keep in mind what you said and try to add custom commands text replacement to it in a future update.

As for custom commands and regular expressions: Users don't have to use regular expressions. They can just type phrases. But I have made a simple but powerful regular expression tutorial at www.seabreezecomputers.com/speech/#custom for those users that want to take a little time to make more powerful custom commands.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

i successfully get the full version.

Hi d n,

I'm sorry for the annoyance you are having with the built-in "Play" command. You can stop custom commands in "Settings" by checking the box for "Disable Voice Commands (Only Speech-To-Text will work)". Or if you just want to disable the "Play" command you can create a custom command that will override it like this:

Phrase:
Play (.*?)
Action:
Play $1


Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff, thanks for the feedback - that's awesome, in fact - I didn't realise custom commands overrode the inbuilt commands. Note that "Play" is not a custom command, it's a built in one. So it would be great if that was a custom command, then people could just switch that off in an instant, by unchecking the "enable" box. But for me, the current solution is fine. Much appreciated.

Hi Jay,

There is now a new and improved custom command for keypresses:

keypress(key, ctrl, alt, shift)

So for shift+space you can try this: keypress(32, false, false, true)

But it will only work if the webpage is properly listening for keypresses.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi d n,

In the latest update to Speech Recognition Anywhere the custom command word replace now works in the box on the Speech Recognition Anywhere tab. I hope that helps you out.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Awesome Jeff, I will give it a spin!

- Jay

hey, wow, just checked it out

thankyou!

although in the meantime I have found a good online text editor with a simple interface. It is www.editpad.org/ which is the simplest I can find. So although I very much appreciate the change, and it gives me the simple fallback option, I should add that, if others have the reverse problem (and for some reason need the inbuilt window as a record) it would not affect me greatly at the moment. But I do prefer this system - thanks, because I have a fallback option if I need it.

Thanks also for taking time out to contact me. I will definitely recommend your app, because the other options (dragon naturally speaking) are getting much more inconvenient/expensive and gradually becoming unusable.

Hi. I am not sure why. But custom commands is not working anymore here. And yeah, they are enabled. I think there's a bug...

Hi Maicon,

The custom commands are still working. It may be that you created a custom command near the top that is incorrectly formed and is blocking other commands from being recognized. Try disabling some of the commands near the top. You can also send me your commands and I can take a look at them.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hello. I'm still not understanding what's happening here. The commands are correct. It's a say command so for example say(hello word.) So I've changed to say(hello word|hello word|) I'm not sure why, but when there's more than one answer for the question it works... Anyway, I have something else to question. After playing a song on youtube, the Virtual Assistant stops working. I need it working back again. at least after the song finishes playing. So I thought about closing the tab. But my language is portuguese. So I tried creating a custom command for closing the tab. And I didn't achieve success on that. Is there any way to make virtual assistant work inside youtube? If not, how to create a custom command to close the youtube tab? (because it needs to be in portuguese and not the built-in english one). Thanks in advance! You always give us a great support!

Hi Maicon,

The action say(hello word.) works for me. I'm not sure why it doesn't work for you. Maybe the Phrase.

As for Virtual Assistant not working in Youtube, there could be a few things to check. Virtual Assistant mode is designed to work only when the SRA tab is active or a tab with http://google.com is active. Also, if you have 'Pause "Speech Recognition Anywhere" if audio is playing in a tab' checked then SRA may not be able to hear you if there is another video playing. You may want to turn off "Autoplay" on the youtube page.

To close the tab in Portuguese try this command:
Phrase: Aba fechada
Action: switch_tabs(close)

To create your own Virtual Assistant command try this:
Phrase: Google,? (.*?)
Action: https://www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=$1

Then say: "Google what time is it"

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi, just kind of stumbled upon your speech recognition as I have been searching for something to replace Dragon Naturally Speaking medical for my medical dictation which requires Windows PC and I'm trying to simplify my personal and business life with Google products, Chrome and android across-the-board.

I'm wondering with the full version and the custom commands are they Unlimited?, and is there any limit to the characters?

Also is your application available on Android tablets and phones?, and also is it available and functional on a Chromebook as well?,

It's the best recognition right off the bat with medical terminology for some reason, not sure how you did that but great job!

Thanks in advance for your response, Daniel

Hi Daniel Sellinger,

Thank you for the information. I hope I can answer your questions. In the Full version the custom commands are unlimited. I believe that there is also no limit to the characters. But I hear that a browser will crash if you put about 1,000,000 characters.

Speech Recognition Anywhere also works on Chromebook and many other computers that have a Chrome or Chromium browser. However it does not work on tablets or mobile phones. There are no Android apps for it. Maybe in the future.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Reporting back here. I've found what's happening with my custom commands, the thing is, I use the voice activation wake up phrase. And this setting isn't applying for the custom commands. Just for virtual assistant. That's what was causing me problems with custom commands be4... because I was saying the activation phrase 1st. Thanks for always giving us great support.

Hi Maicon,

Thank you for letting me know! It looks like I accidentally removed the wake up phrase from working with custom commands in version 1.0.4. I will try to fix it in the next version.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff. I am using the wakeup command. How can I make SRA go to sleep manually? I have tried the (turn/off) (start/stop) | Dictation/Speech-to-text but I guess I don't really understand how it works.
Please explain how to use this feature and If I need to make a custom command for sleep
Thanks Ray

Hi nexus2014,

There is no command to make SRA go to sleep manually. If you have a wake up phrase set then it will listen to what you say for 2 seconds after it hears the wake up phrase. If there is 2 seconds of silence then it will wait for the wake up phrase again. If you check the box "Only require wake up phrase again if there is no speech for more than 20 seconds" then it will wait for 20 seconds of silence before looking for the wake up phrase again.

The stop dictation command will stop SRA from inputting speech-to-text in input boxes on websites, but it still allows you to use commands such as "Switch tabs".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff, I just purchase the full upgrade and spent quite a bit of time entering about 20 or 25 custom commands on my home Windows PC Chrome browser, now at my office on another Windows PC Chrome browser only the first one shows up, was there thing that needed to be done in terms of saving those commands so they will work on any Chrome browser or Chromebook?

Dr. Daniel Sellinger

Hi Daniel,

It could be that one or more of the custom commands are typed incorrectly. Can you export your custom commands and send them to me?

As for setting which microphone is in use, that can be different with each version of the OS. It would be easiest to disconnect the microphone while Speech Recognition Anywhere is off. Then try the program again. Or you can try following the instructions here:
blogs.creighton.edu/bluecast/tips-and-tricks/set-the-default-microphone-and-adjust-the-input-volume-in-windows-7/

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

hi jeff, worked !, for both office pc just now and my google pixelbook in addition !...lastly , is there the ability to "train" specific words into the vocabulary as well ?
dan

Hi Daniel,

That is good to know that it worked. The best way to "train" Speech Recognition Anywhere is to create a custom command that replaces the word with the correct word. For example, if I spelled my name the British way (Geoff) I could use this custom command to replace Jeff with Geoff:

Phrase:
(.*?)Jeff(.*?)

Action:
$1Geoff$2


Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Great!

Thanks Jeff. That helps a lot
Ray

Hi,
Please help me with following
Command for backspace
Command for sentence case formatting when a paragraph is already selected using mouse
Thank you very much you're doing a great job

Hi Dragos Sima,

The command for backspace is:
backspace()

I'm sorry but you can't do sentence case formatting when a paragraph is already selected using mouse.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

so send me way to pay you

I'm sorry I don't make the purchase part but Google does.


I don't know why, but it appears that the Chrome Web Store blocks some countries from buying. Some users have had success by clicking on the Settings button in Chrome Web Store and changing their country to one of the supported countries. See: developer.chrome.com/webstore/pricing


Other users have had success by using a VPN service like HotSpot Shield (also a chrome extension) to change their country temporarily.


Jeff

www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I am appreciating this speech recognition software. In the last few days, if I dictate words that are the names of other pages (unrelated to my work!), I am getting pulled off my dictation page to one with those words in its title - a web page or a you tube song, for example! Is there a way to prevent this?

thanks very much for your help.

Dear sir,
As i have paid for this program i would like it to be resolved as soon a possible as i am not happy the way it works.

Hello dpg,

If you begin a sentence with the word play then it plays a video on YouTube with that title. To stop this from happening in speech recognition anywhere click on custom commands and and uncheck the command with the phrase that starts with the word play or erase the phrase that starts with play and leave it blank.

Jeff

Hello rosscoe,

What are you wanting to be resolved? I did not see any other message.

Jeff

Great. Thanks. It was hilarious the first 2 times...

In Google Slides, i want to say actions like "go to next slide" - does your extension have that feature?

btw, your website shows a really good product that would be worth $14.

Hi jch,

That is a good question. I just tested Google Slides and in Present Mode if I say "Press right arrow" then it goes to the next slide. If I say "press left arrow" then it goes to the previous slide. You can also create a custom command like this:

Phrase: (Go to )?(the )?Next Slide
Action: keypress(39)

That custom command will allow you to say "Next slide" or "Go to next slide" or "Go to the next slide". For previous slide you can create this custom command:

Phrase: (Go to )?(the )?Previous Slide
Action: keypress(37)


Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I purchased Speech Recognition today after the free trial period ended. I'm glad that I can use the program once again, however, after launching the program the following is at the top of the page and as I am using it it is in the yellow print box: FREE TRIAL EXPIRED. I need this gone now that I own the program. Thanks.

Hi, for some reason, I can't get the speech recognition to handle multiple matches for text replacement. That is, if I use a regular expression, it seems to only be able to do one match per string. Is there a way to handle multiple matches? I mean, the output from one regex match would then get passed down the line to the next regex.

Hi d n,

It is not designed to do that. One phrase can only match one custom command at a time. But if you would like to give an example of the sentence you are speaking and the output you want it to have then maybe you could create one custom command that could replace both words.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Dictation anywhere software is the very best that I've used within Chrome. I'm a dragon professional individual user. A professional user. I use it all day long for my work. Before I got into using Dragon Naturally Speaking. I was looking for a Chrome extension like yours. I used to use a Chromebook. I actually quit using Chromebook because I need it real dictation which was not available at the time. Your extension would have been out back then I would have easily paid you $100 for it.

Have you thought about connecting your extension, or at least the settings that you have used on the Google speech recognition algorithm to a keyboard on mobile. there really is not quality dictation available on Android. It needs to be connected to a keyboard and not its individual app. If you can do it in an individual app like a notebook or a notepad, adding a word count feature would be great.

Keep up the good work. If I move back to using Chromebook I will definitely buy your extension

Hi Mike,

Thank you for your comments and your suggestion. I would love to have Speech Recognition Anywhere work on Android. Unfortunately, there are many limitations with the Web Speech API and Android together. I will keep working on it and hopefully in the future something will be available.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

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Hey! Long time no see... Virtual assitant isn't answering with voice anymore, just shows the info on screen. Can you take a look at it for me please? And also, can you make an option to make a sound before running a command. I mean, after recognizing the entire phrase and before executing the command. Like a confirmation that the command is recognized succesfully and will be running now. Thanks in advance, you always give us a great support! And by the way, I've forgot the help with the translation you've asked me, I'll be doing as soon as I can. Cheers.

Hi Maicon,

Virtual Assistant is still answering with voice for me. You might need to restart the computer or maybe there is another extension or program that is causing a conflict. Or it could be a Chrome or OS setting that is causing a conflict.

I'll try to add a confirmation beep after a phrase is recognized in a future update.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

hey i really think that you shouldnt sell this though its worth it surely but it might get taken down

Hello! I am trying to buy the product I am unable to purchase it from the Google play shop.
Can I find another solution for buying it?

Corina

Hello Corina,

For some reason Google limits some extensions in some countries. If that is the case the suggestions are to click on "Settings" > "Location" at the Chrome Web store and change the country to one of the fully supported countries then it worked. For supported countries see: developer.chrome.com/webstore/pricing

Other users have had success by using a VPN service like HotSpot Shield (also a chrome extension) to change their country temporarily. Jeff

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hey thanks, for the update with the new feature, works like a charm to me. And I'm still not getting voice response from the virtual assistant mode, I'm using brazilian portuguese, but I've also tested with US english and no answer, but it still shows me the answer on the screen anyway. I'm not sure what's happening here. I need it to answer with voice, because I use it in an voice app where users give it a command, and it gives the answer by voice.

Custom commands with the "say" command works perfectly fine. Answering with voice okay.

Hi Maicon,

The Virtual Assistant Mode speaks good for me. I wonder if you turned off the speaking of results for Google. Try to do the opposite of this video:
youtu.be/kNTSc_E6r8g

Let me know if that starts it working again. Make sure you check "Speak answers for voice search".

Also, I'm wondering if it is because you have Google set to a different language that it doesn't want to speak.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I just got your extension and tried to repeat what you did on your video. When I said open google.Com it worked just like in your video, but when I said what is the weather forecast, I got the following error message

"The message port closed before a response was received.. NOTE: In a new tab you must reload the web page you were trying to use speech recognition on before this extension will work on it."

I tried reloading the page and get the same error message. I tried closing Chrome and re launching it and always get the same error message. I really want this to work. Please help. Thank you.

Hi Bill,

The last time someone had that error it was because another extension had changed something in Chrome and was causing a problem. You will probably need to try disabling or removing other extensionst. After removing another extension you will probably need to restart Chrome though before testing Speech Recognition Anywhere again.

If it still won't work, as a last resort you may need to reset Chrome to default which will remove all your cookies and settings and extensions. To reset Chrome you can go to the Chrome menu in the upper-right corner and then click on Settings, the scroll down and click on Advanced and then scroll all the way down to Reset and clean up and click on Restore settings to their original defaults and then click on Reset Settings.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Please help me buy this software my free trial has expired and I want to buy it it has its Kinks but I'm absolutely thrilled except it keeps putting that my free trial has expired I am more than willing to buy it please help

Hi Jason,

The last time someone had a problem like that it was because another extension had changed something in Chrome. You will probably need to try removing other extensions. After removing another extension you will probably need to restart Chrome though before trying to purchase again. If it still won't work, you may need to reset Chrome to default which will remove all your cookies and settings and extensions. To reset Chrome you can go to the Chrome menu in the upper-right corner and then click on Settings, then scroll down and click on Advanced and then scroll all the way down to Reset and clean up and click on Restore settings to their original defaults and then click on Reset Settings.

If it still does not work then the only other thing I can think of is purchasing the extension from a second computer. But make sure you are logged into the Chrome webstore on the second computer with the same Google account.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thanks. I restored settings to original default and it worked. Then I had to reload my extensions and I'm good to go.

Thank you very much that works right away I really appreciate your quick response and I look forward to using the software pretty much every single day

I've watched the video, and the settings are correct, but it doesn't speak, even if I use the google website (clicking in the mic at the search bar) BUT, I think there's a really weird bug:

1.I went to this settings page and then clicked "save", (because the setting was already correct) still, nothing happens.

2. I went to the settings page and clicked "cancel", it returns to the results page and speaks! (what the...)

So, when I ask something again, no answer, but if I click settings then cancel, it answers the question. Super weird.

I have no idea how to fix this, I think I will stop using this program for a while, untill some solution come into my mind.

Hi Maicon,

If you have tried everything you can think of and it still does not work then it seems that Chrome has been corrupted by some other extensions and websites. You may need to reset Chrome to default which will remove all cookies and settings and extensions. To reset Chrome you can go to the Chrome menu in the upper-right corner and then click on Settings, then scroll down and click on Advanced and then scroll all the way down to Reset and clean up and click on Restore settings to their original defaults and then click on Reset Settings.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Does it work in Mozilla Thunderbird?

Hi Dan,

No, it does not work in Mozilla Thunderbird. It only works in Chrome.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

When I click on Speech Recognition Anywhere it will never initialize at the top of the screen. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Mark Baker,

The last time someone had that error it was because another extension had changed something in Chrome and was causing a problem. You will probably need to try disabling or removing other extensions. After removing another extension you will probably need to restart Chrome though before testing Speech Recognition Anywhere again. If it still won't work, as a last resort you may need to reset Chrome to default which will remove all your cookies and settings and extensions. To reset Chrome you can go to the Chrome menu in the upper-right corner and then click on Settings, the scroll down and click on Advanced and then scroll all the way down to Reset and clean up and click on Restore settings to their original defaults and then click on Reset Settings.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi

Is it possible to use commands in other languages?
So that I could say "Druck Schicken" in german instead of "Click submit" in english?

Hi kejsaren,

If you change the speech recognition language to German and then click on "Commands" then you can see all the commands that are available in German. I think right now you can say, "Klicken einreichen" to submit a form.

You might be able to say "Klicken Schicken" or "Drücken Schicken", but only if the button says "Schicken" on it. If the button says "Submit" then you could create a custom command like the following:
Phrase: Drück Schicken
Action: click_keyword(submit)

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

ok, thank you very much for a swift and detailed reply.
I see german command.
But I actually need it for a another language, swedish, and I don´t see commands in that language after having changed to swedish in settings. I presume there are no command for swedish yet, but if you´d like a could make a translation.

Hi kejsaren,

That would be great if you could make a Swedish translation of the commands!

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I´ve sent you (an attemept to) swedish translation by email

What have I bought !!? Just joking... This puppy looks like some fun to get the way I want it. Glad I have a past as a programmer ! Some fun scripty stuff for sure.
Anyway, my question is probably silly, but I am assuming it will work with Google Docs ?? I am planning to use this as a creative writing tool (one of many). Thanks. Looks like fun. I'm sure you'll hear from me....

Hi Richard N,

Yes, it currently works with Google Docs.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

tnx

tnx

Thanks for a great product. The only problem I'm having is that I want to use this with-in google docs. When I first installed it, it was working fine but in the last 2 weeks I can't use Speech Recognition anywhere inside google docs. Any solutions?

Hi gary,

It still works in Google Docs. The only thing that I can think of is that another extension may be conflicting or may have changed settings in Chrome. You may need to remove some extensions and then restart Chrome and test again.

As a last resort, you may need to reset Chrome to default which will remove all your cookies and settings and extensions. To reset Chrome you can go to the Chrome menu in the upper-right corner (3 dots) and then click on Settings, then scroll down and click on "Advanced" and then scroll all the way down to Reset and clean up and click on "Restore settings to their original defaults" and then click on "Reset Settings". After you have reset Chrome then sign in to Chrome with your Google account. Then reinstall Speech Recognition Anywhere at: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speech-recognition-anywhe/kdnnmhpmcakdilnofmllgcigkibjonof

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thanks Jeff, It worked perfectly. Come to think of it, it seemed to stop working when I installed the grammarly plugin.

You're welcome! I'm glad it is working again. Thank you for the update.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I purchased the full version but am unable to use it in Word documents. Please advise.

Hi water2wyne,

When you say you can't use it in Word documents do you mean that you can't use it in the Microsft Word Program? Speech Recognition Anywhere is a Chrome extension and can only work with websites in Chrome. It will not work with any programs outside of Chrome.

You can use it in Chrome with Word Online at office.live.com/start/Word.aspx but it is a little buggy. You need to manually press the Enter key for new paragraphs. Or you can use it with Google Docs at docs.google.com where you can say "New paragraph" to get a new line.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Here is a shortcut to send a post on Facebook or to send a Tweet on Twitter. It presses Ctrl Enter when you say "Press CTRL Enter" or "Send" or "Tweet".

Phrase: (Press CTRL Enter|Type Control Enter|Send|Tweet)
Action: keypress(13, true)
Description: Shortcut to send post on Facebook or Tweet on Twitter

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thank you for making a great tool! I'm having almost the same problem as Bill:

******
146. Posted By: Bill - - September 14, 2018, 7:16 pm
I just got your extension and tried to repeat what you did on your video. When I said open google.Com it worked just like in your video, but when I said what is the weather forecast, I got the following error message

"The message port closed before a response was received.. NOTE: In a new tab you must reload the web page you were trying to use speech recognition on before this extension will work on it."
******

I have already deleted all other chrome extensions and reset Chrome according to your instruction, but unfortunately the problem remains unsolved. I would much appreciate it if you have any idea to resolve. Thank you.

Hi Masa,

Can you shutdown your computer and then restart it and try again? If that does not work then can you let me know what Operating System you have (Windows/Mac/Linux) and verison?

Resetting Chrome usually fixes that problem. But there might be some programs in your Operating System that are causing a problem or it might be corrupted.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

The wolfram alpha trick to get the answer spoken back to you doesn't work for me. Maybe W.A changed something internally? I've even signed up for their API and gotten the response in plain text but I just can't seem to get the computer to read the result aloud back to me. Any advice?

Hi Reg,

You are right. Thank you for letting me know. The problem appears to be with the latest update of Chrome. The programmers of Chrome have been trying to stop websites from playing audio without the users permission, so in the lateset version they disabled speechSynthesis. But they messed up because it never asks the user if they want to hear the audio or not, it just blocks it. On the wolfram alpha website if you enable developer console you should see this error it when it tries to speak:

[Deprecation] speechSynthesis.speak() without user activation is no longer allowed since M71, around December 2018. See www.chromestatus.com/feature/5687444770914304 for more details

To fix it, to the left of the wolfram alpha website address in the address bar should be a little lock symbol 🔒. Click on the lock symbol and then click on "Site Settings". Scroll down and next to "Sound" click on the down arrow and select "Allow".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.c

Thank you for your quick reply.
I have already shut down my computer and restarted it, but unfortunately the same error message appears. My Operating System is Windows 10 home. So far, I have no idea what causes the problem. If it worked well, I would purchase it...

Hi Masa,

Does speech recognition work with the extension on websites with forms or in the body of a message at gmail? I'm wondering if it is only not working at google.com or if it is not working on other websites as well.

Some people have had success by completely reinstalling Chrome on Windows.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

No, it doesn't work in the body of a message at gmail or at a wordpress blog. I get always the following error message:

"The message port closed before a response was received.. NOTE: You must reload the web page you were trying to use speech recognition on before this extension will work on it."

I may try to reinstall Chrome. Thank you.

***
To fix it, to the left of the wolfram alpha website address in the address bar should be a little lock symbol �"'. Click on the lock symbol and then click on "Site Settings". Scroll down and next to "Sound" click on the down arrow and select "Allow".
***

You are a very smart man Jeff :D - Much obliged!

Hi Reg,

You're welcome! I'm glad it is working.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I still do not understand how to print A parenthesis.

Hi Dale,

You can print parenthesis in the Action field of a custom command in two ways. You can use %28 and %29 as in this example:

Action: %28this is inside%29

Or you can use the print_text() command as in this example:

Action: print_text((this is inside))

In a future version you will be able to say open parenthesis and close parenthesis.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff,

I love this program, its amazing! I'm so proud of myself because not only did I go on Twitter and sent a Tweet without pressing any keys, I also managed to send a private DM, once again without pressing a single key!

Although I don't understand at all the custom commands and if I'm supposed to say out loud everything, I'm sure it will click into place soon!

There is one program/application I've not been able to get it to work in though, and that is the chat/typing part of my Discord. As that is a program I use often, is it that I'm doing something wrong or will SRA only work in the web version of Discord (or not at all?) Its no biggie if it doesn't work in Discord because I can use it on You Tube, Twitter and Facebook which are the apps I use the most. Happy New Year Jeff! Nicky xx

Heh Jeff,

Sorry to bother you again (but at least both issues are together. BTW I did get the program to work in the web app of Discord, just not the desktop program.

My other issue is, for however hard I try, I can't get the program to read something out loud to me. could you tell me the exact command for 'read highlighted text', 'read highlighted paragraph' or 'read page' etc as I don't understand the custom commands. TYI Nicky xxx

Hi Speedybird,

Thank you for the comment! I'm glad you are able to get SRA to work well with most of your web apps. Yes, you are right, SRA will only work with web versions in Chrome because Chrome extensions cannot work outstide of Chrome.

I'm not sure why the speech-to-text is not working for you. I wonder if Chrome is blocking the audio for some reason. If you go to "Settings" in SRA and click on the "Test" button under "Text-To-Speech Settings" does it say anything? If the "Test" button is disabled then try chaning the "Rate" slider first and then press the "Test" button.

Some of the commands are:
"Read page" (That will read the current screen or page of information that you can currently see in the view.
"Read article" (Will read the whole web site from top to bottom.
"Read paragraph" (Will attempt to read the first paragraph at the top of the current view)

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff

Many thanks for your reply and your continued support for SRA. I am dictating this message on my computer (in gmail). (hence the awful punctuation I have yet to get the hang of..I typed this part, will become apparent why below)
‌Yes, that makes perfect sense! It's only works on web apps. that's no problem for me as I'm quite happy to use apps.
‌So, with regards to reading out text to me, I managed to get the program to read all your email to me so I previously must have been doing something wrong.
‌It seems now that the only command I cannot get to work is 'read highlighted/selected text?'I tried it on your email and I still can't get it to work. Have you got any more tips I could perhaps try?

Finally, I've looked everywhere for the command for brackets=( ). Do you give them another name?
This program has already proven to be a 'life saver' for me. Being disabled and bed bound causes me problems in reaching over to my laptop. You, Sir, are wonderful!

t

Hi Speedybird,

You found a bug! The "Read" commands are newer commands and the "Read selected text" command had a bug causing it not to work. Thank you for letting us know. It has been fixed with the latest update. You may need to restart Chrome for the latest version to install.

As for when Twitter has a box open, try the command "Read Notification" to read it.

The commands for parentheses and brackets are:
Open parenthesis (
Close parenthesis )
Open bracket [
Close bracket ]

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi again Jeff

HAHA If anyone was going to find a 'bug' it had to be me! (Its a wonder I didn't cause it in the first place) Thank you so much for fixing/updating it so quickly!

Thank you for explaining how to use a Twitter box and also how to give a command for brackets/parenthesis. In the UK, in general speech, we would use the word 'brackets' for ( ). Although I studied A Level English at college, we would never have used the word 'parenthesis'

I took this from an article online, it explains my confusion:-

'In addition to referring to the class of all types of brackets, the unqualified word bracket is most commonly used to refer to a specific type of bracket: in modern American usage, this is usually the square bracket and in modern British usage, this is usually the round bracket.'

Once again, thank you for your wonderful support. I appreciate it so very much!

regards

Nicky xx

Hi Speedybird,

You're welcome! Thank you for the interesting information about UK english grammar and brackets. I didn't realize that you were in the UK. Yes, as you found, here in America, we say parentheses for () and brackets for []

We also say curly brackets for {} but I also read that they are called braces in the US, however I never really hear them referred to as braces. By the way, don't try to write curly brackets with Speech Recognition Anywhere. It is not programmed to do those at the moment.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Action:dictation(stop)
I can't use this action.

now The dictation function is turned off. When speaking to Chrome, "Speech-To-Text is disabled in setting" is displayed. But chrome searches my words at goole. All other commands can also be used. Of course it is a full version addon. Payment is complete.
What's wrong?
Sorry I'm bad at English.

Hi oshi,

dictation(stop) means to turn off speech-to-text. If you want to turn speech-to-text or dictation back on then you can use the action: dictation(start) or you can say "Start dictation" or say "Turn on speech to text". Or on the Speech Recognition Anywhere tab click on "Settings" and then uncheck "Disable Speech-To-Text (Only Voice Commands will work)".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

thank you.
I understood what you mean.
May I ask you one more thing?

Putting a check "Disable Voice Commands (Only Speech-To-Text will work)" can stop default English command, but it can't stop my Japanese custom command.
Is there a way to stop custom command?

Hi oshi,

In order to stop custom commands you have to uncheck "Enable" next to each custom command that you want disabled.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff, Thx for creating this tool. I am mostly utilizing the tool to look up definitions for college/homework. I noticed within one of the YouTube tutorials, there is an audible voice that can actually read out loud. I checked my speakers and volume level ect.. I want to hear, ie: "The temperature is.." How do I get this feature? I would really like the definition read out loud. Similar to when I search a word on my android device.
Thanks
Josh

Hi Joshua,

There are a few ways you can get it to speak outloud.

1. When you purchase the full edition of Speech Recognition Anywhere you can check "Virtual Assistant Mode" in "Settings". Then if your current tab is Google.com or the Speech Recognition Anywhere tab then whatever you ask will be sent to Google's assistant. Say something like "What is the tempature?"

2. You can also create your own custom command for Google like this:
Phrase: Google (.*?)
Action: https://www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=$1

Then say something like: "Google what is the tempature?"

3. If you want Wolfram Alpha to answer for you then try this custom command:
Phrase: Wolframs*Alpha (.*?)
Action: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=$1;speak(Result.img[0])

Then say something like "Wolfram Alpha what is the tempature?"

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi jeff, I am having problems with chrome, even if I re-set all the settings and I allowed the audio and mic to enable, i keep getting a network errore. I tried re installing chrome and resettings the settings. Nothing. Can you help? thank you.

Hello diego,

Has it worked before on this computer with the network error? What operating system are you using? What usually works for most people that get the network error is to reset Chrome according to these instructions: support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214

I am not sure what to suggest if that does not work. Ther could be other software installed that is causing a conflict. Maybe antivirus or firewall software.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Description: Netflix (any show)


Phrase: Netflix (.*?)


Action:

https://www.netflix.com/search?q=$1;click_element(title-card-0-0.a[0])

Thanks Sky! That is exactly right.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

ITS ATOMATICALLY TAKING SPACE WHILE ENTERING MOBILE NUMBER IN WEB FORM. HOW TO SOLVE THIS

Hi Sangamesh,

Google's web speech api sometimes does strange things with numbers. You will probably need to create a custom command for that web form. Something like this:

Phrase: Enter my phone number
Action: 5551231234

Then if you say "Enter my phone number" then it will print the number you put in the action field.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Speech Recognition Anywhere allows to set up a shortcut key at chrome://extensions/shortcuts for switching off the extension. The hotkey must be in the form of “Alt + a letter” or “Ctrl + a letter”. So I would like to create a voice command that switches off the extension using the keypress(key, ctrl, alt, shift) command. I have experienced with keypress(r, false, true), and keypress(114, false, true) and keypress(r, true), but none of them work. When calling it, the extension realizes that it is a command, but it doesn’t send the keys (executes the command). Of course, when doing by hand the hotkey works with no problem. Thank you.

Hi Paizs,

Chrome does not allow those keypresses to be sent at the system level. Chrome only sends it to the current webpage. Try this action instead:
switch_tabs(speech recognition anywhere);();switch_tabs(close)

Unfortunately, it will also switch tabs. But that is the closest I can get at the moment.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff,
It works. It may switch tabs depending on the number of tabs open and the position of tabs. But I can live with that.
Thank you for your help.
Laszlo

Hi Laszlo,

You're welcome! Thanks for the comment.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff,
Is there any way to create a custom command for running a AutoHotkey script?
Thanks,
Laszlo

Hi Laszlo,

No. Speech Recognition Anywhere cannot run an AutoHotKey script. It can only do scripting for websites within Chrome as explained here: seabreezecomputers.com/speech/#custom

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff,
Ok, thanks.
Laszlo

As far as I see your key pressing commands (like backspace(), spacebar() ) send keys at the system level, so they could be used to create shortcuts for running autohotkey scripts. Clearly, though, one would not use those keys for such purpose. So, it would be nice if you consider creating a key pressing command for an “unimportant” key like NumLock in a future version.
Thanks
Laszlo

Sorry, I was wrong in saying that key pressing commands are sending keys at the system level in my previous post.
Laszlo

Hi Seabreeze,

Liking your speech recognition. Almost have us sold.

We are a builder and our estimating tools are web-based. Is there a way to navigate to the text box below www.dropbox.com/s/vcooxct0wdh9bje/Capture.PNG?dl=1

I have tried but it jumps up to the top box. In addition, can we customize the commands e.g. say open bracket 6 + 3 close bracket x 2? Seems that parenthesis is quite a long word and isn't fast to say. Same with decimals would rather say point.

Hi Adrian,

Unfortunately, I can't tell from a picture whether or not there is a way to navigate to that field. I would have to see an actual website example. Usually by saying "Next" or "Previous" the focus will switch fields forwards or backwards. There might be other options as well. You can also try saying "Press tab 2 times" to move two fields forward.

I think the confusion with the brackets is the difference between American English and British/Australian English. In American English brackets are always [ ]

Since, "open bracket" and "close bracket" are already reserved for [ ], you can try these custom commands to say "first bracket" or "last bracket" to print ( )

Phrase: \bfirst bracket\b
Action: (

Phrase: \blast bracket\b
Action: )

As for saying point for a decimal. It works for me. If I say "fifteen point five" then it prints 15.5
Is it not doing that for you?

Jeff

Hi Jeff be confused on how to set up the back command, I don't seem to be able to get it to work.

When using the backspace command I find it goes back to its original place and I'm unsure what I need to put in the "Action" box

Hi Paul,

I'm sorry, but the backspace command may not be very handy except in rare cases. If you just say backspace it will erase the last letter. But then when you say the next phrase the program will detect that it should put a space. So the backspace may not accomplish what you want. If you say "Backspace 3 times" then it will erase the last three letters. If you are creating a custom command then you would put backspace() in the Action field to backspace one letter. Or backspace(3) to backspace three letters.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I currently have a custom command where I say the word CHEVRON and it does a carriage return 1x (enters a new line) then autotypes ">> " which is what I want. But I can't get it to recognize the next word I speak as the beginning of new sentence. It won't capitalize the next first word, after my carriage return + ">> ". I tried creating something using the capitalize_first_letter($1, false) but I can't get it to work right. HERES WHAT I HAVE THAT DOES WORK-------
Phrase: chevron
Action: enter_key(1);>>;spacebar(1)

WHAT I'VE TRIED TO ADD THAT DOES NOT WORK------
Phrase: chevron
Action: enter_key(1);>>;spacebar(1);capitalize_first_word(.*?)
Action: enter_key(1);>>;spacebar(1);capitalize_first_word(text, false)
Action: capitalize_first_word(.*?);enter_key(1);>>;spacebar(1)

Hoping you can help me. Thanks. Jen

Hi divinions,

Try this command:
Phrase: chevron ?(.*?)
Action: enter_key(1);>> ;capitalize_first_letter($1)

Then you will have to say it in one statement like: "Chevron how are you" and it should print:
>> How are you

Or if you want to say it in two statements then you will have to make a phrase that capitalizes the first letter like this:
Phrase: (.*?)?(capitalized?) (.*?)
Action: $1;capitalize_first_letter($3, true)

Then you can say "Capitalize how are you" at any time and it should print:
How are you

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thank you Jeff, that's exactly what I needed. I'm glad you understood my babble.
Cheers, Jen.

Please give some custom commands for English users like wikipedia, Maps, Google search, Investopedia, Google Images, Amazon purchase, Start google and start composing, Open Google Drive

How do you search for a keyword and get the results from a particular website, And what if I want recent results

Secondly I wish to say "index"/"summit" keyword and get all results related to it.
For eg- all WTO summit and indices

Also how to limit these results from 2-3 selected website only

Hi Jeff I had created a script for google maps

Phrase: Find(.*?)?
Description: Finds a place in US (zoomed out view in google maps
Action::https://www.google.com/maps/search/$1/@42.881086,-94.7757743,3.56z

I was wondering whether you could tell me how to collapse side panel automatically

Hi Jeff,

How do you activate an chrome extention like MoonReader Chrome extention as soon as a page loads

Hi David C. Mosby,

Here are a few:

Phrase: Google (.*?)
Action: https://www.google.com/search?inm=vs&q=$1
Description: Say "Google what time is it"

Phrase: (Images|Pictures)( of)? (.*?)
Action: https://www.google.com/search?q=$3&tbm=isch
Description: Say "Pictures of cats" or "Images of horses"

Phrase: Wikipedia (.*?)
Action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1
Descriptoin: Say "Wikipedia Pacific Ocean"

Phrase: Open Google Drive
Action: https://drive.google.com

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Sean,

Try this for the Action:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/$1/@42.881086,-94.7757743,3.56z;;click_keyword(Collapse side panel)

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Speedybird,

Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible to activate another Chrome extension.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff, Thanks for replying Buddy
But Unfortunately its not working
It reappears (because page is loading again)

Jeff I'm constantly getting this error in yellow strips while searching.

"Invalid regular expression: /^((?.))$/: Invalid group"

?

Hi Sean,

I don't know why the page is loading again. I used the command and it worked for me. The only thing I can think of is that maybe it is taking a while for the Google maps page to completely load on your browser so maybe it is trying to close the side panel before it is loaded. You can try adding more semicolons ;; Each one will have a pause of half a second. So maybe:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/$1/@42.881086,-94.7757743,3.56z;;;;;click_keyword(Collapse side panel)

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Linda,

You have a custom command with (?.) in it. That is an invalid regular expression.
? is a special character in regular expressions to match what is before it one or none times. But there is nothing in front of the ? so it is invalid. What are you trying to do?

You can get help on regular expressions at:
www.seabreezecomputers.com/speech/#custom
and
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Megan,

I'm sorry, but I do not understand your questions.

What I mean to say is that-

1. I am studying for a exam

2. I need to prepare excel sheet of all the summits, Index, HQ related to different Organisations of the world

3. Suppose I need the results from

news.google.co.in/
twitter.com/Reuters
www.aljazeera.com/
www.un.org/en/
en.wikipedia.org/

4. Secondly I want to constraint my results to summits/indices/meetings happened in last 6 months


Eg-

I wish to say (Index UN)
Result should be (All the recent indices released by UN in the given websites)

Hey Jeff,

Sorry to trouble, but you see, there are too many ads on certain webpages, is there a way to load unformatted simple html view (which was possible with moonreader extension)

I'm also facing issues with reading, I wanted some sort of voice command, which reads the main article, The reader you have built in starts from top panel, which has home, and other hyperlinks, tts reader reads all of it, then comes to main body. (Something like google voice assistant reader that reads first para of an article on a website would be great)

Hi Megan,

I'm sorry but I don't know how to do that. Maybe someone else does.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Speedybird,

I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you but I have a couple of suggestions you can try. You can try finding an extension that blocks ads or an extension that shows web pages in Reader mode all the time.

As for the tts, have you tried saying, "Read article" or "Read paragraph"? Also you might want to check "Simple Mode (Turns off verbose reading of ARIA roles and Tag names like "button" and "hyperlink")"
at the bottom of the Settings.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Jeff
I don't know for some reason, its not working
Yet when I tried, putting (keyword collapse panel) in separate script it works, But not together

Hi Sir,
Thankyou for this awesome script.

I've a query, what would be custom command for clicking second/third/fourth link in a) google search results b) google images

Sir, can't you make custom command for 1st part of question like I can give you hint (please correct it, if you can)


(index|summit|Meeting)(.?)

www.google.com/search?q=site "news.google" $1;

Hi Alex,

I'm sorry but I do not know for clicking on second/third/fourth link in google search results. I just say "Click on 'title of link' "

For image results you can try this custom command:
Phrase: Image number (.*?)
Action: click_element(rg.img[$1])

But you have to remember that Image number 0 is the first image, and Image number 1 is the second image. Then you can say "Escape" twice to close the image.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Megan,

I'm sorry but I still don't understand. However, on your phrase (.?) would just match one character. So I think you want to change your phrase to use (.*?) like this:

Phrase: (index|summit|Meeting) (.*?)

That will match all the words you say after index|summit|meeting

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I got my answer thanks

Phrase: (index|summit|Meeting) (.*?)
Action: www.google.com/search?q=$0 aljazeera


Btw How to get simultaneous from all 3, If I just speak Index

Hi Megan,

Do you mean that you want two tabs to open with the urls? You can try this:

Action: open(http://www.google.com/search?q=$0 aljazeera);open(http://www.google.com/search?q=$0 wikipedia)

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff,
How do I press F11 key or Printscreen key with voice command

Hi Shawn,

Chrome extensions can only send keypresses on the website level not the system level. If you are trying to do F11 for Full screen then it will not work because it is system level and also Chrome only allows full screen with a user gesture such as with the mouse or keyboard. Print Screen key is also system level for copy screen to clipboard, so it will not work either. If you have a website that is listening for F11 then you could use keypress(44) and if you have a website listening for Print Screen key then you could use keypress(122). But I don't know of any websites listening for those keys.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff, How do you prevent speech from being entered into the search field of website, I'm searching something, But it always enters the text into the search field of that website. For Eg- If I'm on wikipedia page, then instead of going to google it starts writing there itself

Thanks Jeff
Can you tell me one more thing, What would be the script for straight away google searching whatever I say

And Jeff What is custom script to search with google assistant (Because pre-existing one) doesn't work with lot of custom scripts

Mr. Baker,
Thankyou for this wonderful extension :)

Can't I buy with debit card ?

Hi Michelle,

I'm sorry. I don't know what you mean. What phrase are you saying and what are you expecting it to do?

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Shawn,

To do a Google search by saying "Google whatever" you can use
this:
Phrase: Google (.*?)
Action: https://www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=$1

If you want everything you say to go to a Google search then you can use this:
Phrase: (.*?)
Action: https://www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=$1

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

"My problem is only occuring on Wikipedia"

If I'm on any wikipedia page and I say something
It gets entered into search fields of wikipedia

On other sites, If I say something
It goes for google search

Thanks to your above comment, my problem solved

(.*?)
www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=$1

Thankyou so much Jeff!!

How do you go back and forth on a webpage ?

Hi Jeff,
How do you find something on a webpage
Is it also possible to find something inside pdf that I've opened with the chrome

Does anyone reply on this forum -_-

Hi Sam,

If you mean browser history then you can say "Go back" or "Go forward". Or you can create a custom command with the action navigation(back) or navigation(forward).

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Alex,

To find something on a webpage you can say "Find whatever". Or you can create a custom command with the action find_phrase(keywords)

It does not seem to work with pdf files though.

For help with custom commands see: www.seabreezecomputers.com/speech/#custom

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff,
Thanks for responding!
I tried but it didn't work
Can you please give me a custom command which can help me in going back and forth on a webpage

Thanks it works now

Hi Jeff,
Can you provide me with some raw material, So that I can I make some custom scipts on my own. I would like to combine my knowledge of AHK with your extension, to make something good.

How can i make a speak command to click a button and/or the keys control+enter? on the website they use this in the HTML:

Send message

Hi Teeke,

I'm sorry but we can't see the HTML unless you surround it with <code> </code> tags. You can make a custom command for control+enter like this:

Phrase: (Press CTRL Enter|Type Control Enter)
Action: keypress(13, true)

Then you can say "Press CTRL Enter" or "Type control enter".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thanks Jeff, it works great !

I am finding that whenever I use speech recognition anywhere to enter text in some Fields it often drops off the first letter of the first word, how do I avoid this. thank you

Hi Tony,

I have not heard of this problem before. Do you have a link to a website where this is happening? If this is happening on many different websites then it sounds like there might be a custom command that is written incorrectly or maybe another extension is causing a conflict. In that case, the only solution I can think of trying is a Chrome reset which will set all Chrome settings to default and erase all extensions. Then you can reinstall the Speech Recognition Anywhere extension.
The instructions for a Chrome reset can be found here: support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi
i have a big issue on the app, i dont know what happens but i get messages from other people on my pc with this app, i live in the philippines and i get dutch words into my speak input, i have already changed my google chrome morgenpassword but that didnt help... here a few examples from what i get :
morgen om 11 uur waarom leven we 33 openingstijden helmond wil je nu wel weer iets meer zou kunnen inzien broer een liefde uit de 1 om 1 uur bel simon aanvoelen morgenvroeg morgenochtend naam de ruilen mcDonald's breda nou hè ja hoor wacht even ik ben in de buurt
Mondeling
Can you help me?

Hi teeke,

That is not part of Speech Recognition Anywhere. It does not do translating into other languages. It also does not connect to any other services. It only uses Google's Web Speech API. It may be that your Chrome browser has another extension installed that is causing this issue. Also make sure that the Language in Speech Recognition Anywhere is set to your correct language. Click on "Settings" and use the drop down box next to "Language".

You might want to do a Chrome reset. It will remove all extensions and Chrome settings. Then you can reinstall Speech Recognition Anywhere. The instructions for a Chrome reset are at support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214

Furthermore, you may also want to do a full virus scan and malware scan on your computer.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thanks Jeff thats not the issue, even i dont talk i still get other words into my fields, its not because of translation when its silent here still my pc writes words sometimes, the oly extention i have installed and active in chrome is adblocker and Speech Recognition Anywhere

Hi teeke,

I'm sorry about the problems that you are having but I have neither seen nor heard of these problems before. All I can suggest at the moment is what I already recommended previously.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I have buy the full version but cant dissable the voice commands in Swedish.
If i use the common word komma it will write a dot (.)
How can i turn it of?

Hi Deemon,

I'm sorry about that. It looks like it was a bug. I think it is now fixed in the latest update. You may need to restart your computer for the latest update to load in Chrome. I hope that will work for you!

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi again Jeff yes I have tried resetting Chrome and it happens all over, no particular site, mostly in form Fields, I would still try to narrow it down and let you know when I have some better information.
In the meantime can you tell me how to disable certain commands in particular the play command, because every time I use the word play or something similar in a sentence it just opens up YouTube and starts play a song which sounds like the next few words. for instance after typing the word play in the previous sentence it opened up YouTube and played this song "Amy Shark - You Think I Think I Sound Like God (Lyric Video)" because I heard the words sounds like. Any help will be appreciated it is driving me nuts.

Hi Tony,

To disable the play command click on "Custom Commands". It might be the 3rd custom command where the phrase is: (Play|Listen to|Youtube) (.*?)
Either uncheck "Enable" or erase the phrase.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff, i am sorry to ay but i got a other problem with the speech extention, i get this error every time, even i have unstall Chrome and reinstall it, so i will have the newest version of chrome, can you help me?

I got this error:
[object HTMLDivElement]Reinstalling Chrome or doing a Chrome Reset may help fix this error.

Hi teeke,

I'm not sure why you would get that error. Can you go to the Speech Recognition Anywhere tab and then go to Developer Tools in Chrome by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+I or clicking on the Chrome Menu and going to More tools > Developer tools. Then copy and paste any error messages shown there or send a screenshot. Maybe we can figure something out.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff, first of all I want to thank you for making this amazing software.

It really has made my life much easier.
It recognizes what I'm trying to say about 95% of the time, and it's much better than more expensive options such as Dragon dictation. At $19.99, this software is a bargain.

I just have one question for you. I was wondering if you have any plans with regards to improving speech recognition accuracy and also reducing time delay/latency between phrase and action in the future updates.

Thanks again!

Hi David,
I'm glad the extension comes in handy for you. Speech Recognition Anywhere uses Google's speech recognition technology and they are always working on improving it so it will probably be getting better. The delay/latency is also on Google's servers so it isn't anything that I can personally change. 

The delay/latency sometimes happens because Google's speech recognition is trying to determine when you are done speaking. Sometimes it takes longer to know when you are done speaking because it might be picking up background noise. The background noise can also be an echo of your voice because some rooms echo. Changing the position of the mic or even trying other mics sometimes helps. Keeping other noises low also helps. One other thing you can do is adjust the volume settings in your operating system especially "Mic Boost". Try different settings and see if it improves things.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thank you very much

Regards, Tony

Hello again Jeff, I'm having a problem writing words like quote and plus because it always turns them into the symbols " and + in my literature work I often use these words and it is driving me crazy, I know that they are part of the extra commands so I wish to know how I can change them to something like quote mark and plus symbol or even just deactivate them. I hope you can help, regards Tony

Hi Tony,

I can't get this to work perfectly but you can try these two custom commands to change + and " to plus and quote:

Phrase: (.*?)(")(.*?)
Action: $1 quote $3
Phrase: (.*?)(\+)(.*?)
Action: $1 plus$3


Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Whenever try now pressed nothng happens wont let me download the speech anywhere app why?

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Hi mo,

I have contacted Chrome Web Store Developer Support to see if they can tell me what the problem is. Unfortunately, I don't see the problem. It is working for me. And Support says it is working for them. I'm hoping they will provide me with an update.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi,
With Opera GX did not works.
maybe something can be done to work with the opera, most chrome extension works.
you can see that he has access to the microphone because the indicator works, however, there is all the time "Initializing..."
I checked a lot of dictation extensions and it seems that in a browser like Vivaldi Opera it is blocked by Google.it seems that it cannot access to the speech recognition mechanism

Hi MMartin,

It looks like most of the popular browsers have not implemented the JavaScript Web Speech API. If you look at the compatibility table at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API#Browser_compatibility the only popular browser that supports the Speech Recognition component is Chrome.

One of the problems is probably that Google will not allow the other browsers to access it's speech recognition server that processes the audio into text. So the other browsers would have to come up with their own speech recognition servers which would be difficult for them to create.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

When Speech to Text Anywhere is activated (but not on the screen) in a Chrome tab, and my Gmail tab is active and on the screen, the S-t-TA app takes random speech from a telephone call I'm making, overrides the gmail tab with a YouTube tab and screen, and begins playing random videos. Can you help me stop this? Thanks!

I purchased the full version an hour ago and it is not at all what I hoped. Thought maybe the free trial had issues and this would fix them. Capitalization, interpretation, missing text issues. I can't find a way to contact sea breeze directly, I want a refund :(

Hi sjolin,

To stop the "play" command go to the Speech Recognition Anywhere tab and click on "Custom Commands". Then uncheck "Enable" next to the command with the phrase "(Play|Listen to|Youtube) (.*?)" or erase the phrase completely.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi mondaysgirl70,

I'm sorry about the problems you are having. Most people do not have those problems. The speech recognition engine for the extension is Google's web speech API. It could be that you need a better microphone or maybe move the microphone to a better location. If you would like a refund please send your order number. You can find it at https://pay.google.com  

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Jeff, thanks so much! I'll see how that works!

Hello I am currently doing a trial run of this program and I'm finding it incredibly helpful. I currently work with two screens and have discovered that program does not work on the second screen even though I am using Google Chrome on both. I am wondering if I purchase the full program if it will then work on split screens i.e. will it work wherever the cursor is at the time?
Thank you.

Hi Rebecca,

If you mean by split screen that you have two different Chrome Windows open and it is not typing what you speak in the second Chrome Window then yes, there is a setting that you can enable in the Full version to make it work in other Chrome Windows. It is in "Settings" and then check the box next to "Allow Speech Recognition in other Chrome Windows".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi. Is there a option to insert the text in the cursor localization? Sometimes the text is inserted in somewhere i don't want to.

Regards

Hi Elker Abreu,

Some websites use frames and unfortunately it is impossible through programming to determine which frame is currently being used so you might see text typed into two or more fields in different frames. 

If the website is not using frames and the text is just being typed in the wrong field then you might be able to click on the field first or say "Click on (name|id|label)" of the field first. To find out the name, id or label of a field in Chrome you can right click on the field and then click on inspect. Or you can paste a link to the website here and tell us which field you are trying to use and I might be able to help you find out more.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi d n,

Which website are you on? Copy, paste and delete do not work on the Speech Recognition Anywhere tab. That is more of a history box. 

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff,
Please tell me how to pause your extension while I'm using Google docs (voice typing)

Hi Shawn,

There are a couple of things you can do in the Full version. You can say "Turn off dictation". That will stop it from typing everything you say, but voice commands will still work like "Click on button" or "Open website.com". Then to start typing again you can say, "Turn on dictation."

Also, In "Settings" you can check these two boxes:
Start "Speech Recognition Anywhere" in the background
Click extension icon a second time to close the extension

That will allow you to just click on the Speech Recognition Anywhere icon to open and close the extension. Also you can go to chrome://extensions/shortcuts in Chrome browser and scroll down to Speech Recognition Anywhere and type a shortcut key like ALT+S to start and stop the extension.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Jeff
Can't you make some changes in extention itself (like pause extention when audio is playing) for google docs

Hi Jeff,

I purchased the full version and then tried your suggestion of changing the settings (Post 297/298 10/18/19) but could not find "Allow Speech Recognition in other Chrome Windows". Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place? I went to Settings --> Extensions --> Speech Recognition Anywhere --> Details. I am a complete novice when it comes to extensions so I apologize in advance!
Also, how do I open a drop down menu? Thanks for your help!

OK now I'm totally embarrassed - figured out the "Settings" thing. In my defense, my tech guy didn't see it either. I obviously need more coffee!

Hi Jeff, I've been using your program for over six months now and I was very satisfied and I've recommended it to several colleagues and are also very satisfied but with the use of windows 10 I have a lot of annoying unwanted words that even appear when the microphone is off many advertising words google, youTube bol.com navigate to etc where is the problem ? and do you have a solution ? my spoken language is dutch and I use this software daily for my work .
Kind regards, met hè

Chris heartbeat

Hi Chris,

If you have unwanted words appearing when the microphone is off then it appears that you have some malware or adware on the computer. You probably should have a computer repair shop do a malware/adware scan on the computer and remove the adware they find in Windows. They will also probably need to do a Chrome reset which should help remove all settings, extensions and any bad things in Chrome.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Apparently you have asked to be given permission to access my google account to view all my apps and extensions. If given such permission will you be able to read my emails and other sensitive information.

thanks.

Hi Jeff, I'm still with the same problem as I said in the comment 143 more than a year ago. Virtual Assistant is not answering with voice. I've already tried evertything I can. One thing I noticed is if I open an google tab and click on the mic and speak, it answers with voice. But using the same link again it doesn't works. Looks like everytime I make a voice search the link changes, even with the same command. Could you please help me out? I'm not sure if it has anything to do with this but I use Brazillian Portuguese language. Thanks.

Hi Vanessa,

I can't read your emails or any sensitive information. No information is sent to me. The way Google designed permissions for extensions is that the only way that the extension can type directly into a webpage with speech to text is if the extension has permission to read and access the webpage. 

If you want to use speech recognition for typing but you don't want to use an extension that can type directly into boxes on websites then you can search for a website that just does speech recognition on the box on their own website and then you would have to copy and paste the text in other webpages.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Maicon,

I don't know why the virtual assistant is not answering with voice for you. It is still answering with voice for me and others. It might be because you use Brazilian Portuguese language. Have you tried changing the language to English and see if it answers with voice? Can you send me the URL of the webpage that opens up with the virtual assistant when you ask a question?

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Even using english language I have no success. Here is the link with an english test that I made.
www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=what%20is%20procrastination#tts=0

Hi Maicon,

That should work. Google adds #tts=0 to the end after the page loads so that if the page is reloaded then it won't answer with voice again. So the URL that Speech Recognition Anywhere created is:
www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=what%20is%20procrastination

If you click on that then it should answer with a voice. If it does not then something has changed in your Chrome or maybe in your Google website settings. On the Google search page that opens up try clicking on "Settings" > "Search Settings" and make sure that "Speak answers for voice search" is enabled. 

I don't have any other ideas if you have already tried a Chrome reset. 

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff
Interesting program you have developed. I am curious how I can get your program to recognize the name of a person then do a line add or a Control 3 command ( used in another program )
How would I write This please ?
Thanks

Hi Derek Wallace,

Speech Recognition Anywhere only works with websites within Chrome. It will not work with other programs in Windows because Chrome extensions are not allowed to do that. If you could let me know what website you are trying to do this at and exactly what phrase you want to say and then what you want it to do (i.e. fill out a field and press enter...etc.) then I might be able to help you with a custom command.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thanks Jeff
I have tested your software using Chrome and it works well enough. Maybe headset microphones will improve the accuracy of spelling
The program we are using is Celtx. We are composing a full length movie using two to four actors speaking.
Celtx has a shortcut for e.g. Act, scene heading, action, character, dialogue. These are done by Control 1 , 2, 3 etc.
The script adjudicator might begin with by saying " Act 1". From here I need to do a carriage return to " Scene heading " then carriage return to " Action " then work down to individual character names. The names might present a hiccup if same name is present in dialogue.
I hope this explanation is thorough.
Thanks

Hi Derek,

Thank you for the additional information. I created an account at Celtx and then I created a custom command that may work for you:
Phrase: Robert
Action: Robert; keypress(51, true); keypress(13)

So for this command you would say, "Robert" and then it would type "Robert" on the screen and then it would press CTRL+3 (keypress(51, Ctrl)). The decimal keycode for 3 is 51. Then it will press the enter key. The decimal keycode for the enter key is 13. I'm not sure if this is exactly what you were asking for, but I think you could adapt those commands and change the order if you need to. 

More information on custom commands is at: http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/speech/#custom

A list of decimal keycodes is at: https://www.rapidtables.com/code/text/ascii-table.html

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

As a professional photographer I am always viewing pages and pages of images online. I use your speech recognition to scroll down but I'm finding i need more control over how much the page is scrolled down. If I just use the scroll down command on your software often i only see parts of images. What can i do? How can i have more control over how much i scroll down?

thanks

I often want to select an image and click on it but image doesn't have any text or number attached to it. How do i click on it when there is nothing but the image? For this purpose a numbering system could be helpful. Don't you have a number system like windows speech recognition. With windows there is the command 'show numbers' and everything that can be clicked on is numbered.

thanks

Hi tracy,

For scrolling just part way down a screen you could create a custom command like this:

Phrase: Scroll by (d+)
Action: window.scrollBy(0, $1)
Description: Say "Scroll by 400" to scroll down by 400 pixels

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi tracy,

Unfortunately, website makers write websites a number of different non-standard ways. So it would be difficult to make a "Show numbers" command that works with every website. But you might be able to create a custom command that will work with one website in particular. If you let me know which website you are using then I might be able to provide some suggestions.

Here is a custom command that works with image websites like freeimages.com and pixaby.com. But it does NOT work on google's images search because Google uses non-standard techniques.

Phrase: Show numbers
Action: var i=0%3Bdocument.querySelectorAll("a").forEach(function(element) { element.innerHTML=i + ". " + element.innerHTML%3B i++%3B });
Description: Say "Show numbers" to label each hyperlink with a number
I created some special custom commands for Google's image search as well. Let me know if you need those.

 Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff,
Happy new year to you,
I am having a bit trouble please help me, As I had told you I wanted to pause your extention while using google docs voice typing, U told me to simply close your extention, but when I'm doing so, Google voice typing for some reason gets hanged up, That's why I asked u to make some changes in extention itself, Could you help me out

Hi Shawn,

I'm sorry but there is nothing that can be done. You can't have two speech recognition programs running at the same time in Chrome. They will not work. You need to close one speech recognition program in Chrome before starting another one.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

How do I give a command to click on a hyper link on a web page?

Hi Ray,

Do you have an example of what link you are trying to click on and on which web page? It usually works by simply saying "Click on (text in link)". For instance if the link text is: "Creamy Garlic Chicken" then you would say "Click on Creamy Garlic Chicken".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff, there is no function to pause your extention, I have to close it every time

Purchased this keep getting the message free trial expired

Hi Alexander,

Sometimes Google takes a few days to process the license. I'm not sure why. But to make sure it is not something on your end here are a few steps you can try:

1. Make sure that you are Signed In to Chrome using the same Google account that you used to purchase the extension with.2. Restart your computer3. If it still says Free Trial after 3 days then another Chrome extension may have changed some settings in Chrome causing a conflict. You can try a Chrome reset to fix this. A Chrome reset will reset all Chrome settings to default and remove all extensions. Then you can reinstall the extension at: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speech-recognition-anywhe/kdnnmhpmcakdilnofmllgcigkibjonof  

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Jeff, I've this command

Phrase=(.*?)
Action=https://www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=$1

I don't want virtual assistant to speak, I just want google to search whatever I speak, What changes should I make

Your "New Line" Command is not working
Can you provide custom command for it (like press enter key)

Hi Jeff. I have a few questions, but will post separate comments.

I want to output a few slang words as they are spoken, which Google API is writing out in full.

gonna (expanded automatically to: going to)
wanna (expanded automatically to: want to)

Oddly, it's not ALL slang words. Google API is picking up and typing out the word "cuz" as I say it. Or the full proper version of "because" when I say that.

Can't use 'correct all' command because I need to say/type "want to" whenever I wanna do so
--Hardee-har-har--
Also, yes, I tried with really enunciating the words, even different accents! So that is not the issue.
Any suggestions?

Jeff How can I automatically disable a custom command automatically when I'm on a certain website (like Youtube, Google Docs)

Jen question is good, Please also tell what if we want to 'write &' when we speak 'and'

Hi David,
To have google search whatever you speak without it answering with a voice then change the Action to this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=$1

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Suzaine,

Some websites do non-standard programming on their textareas causing the New Line command to not work. If you let me know which website it is then I can try to come up with a solution. For Google Docs saying "New Paragraph" works. For some other websites they are looking for an actual keycode from the Enter key which is 13. So a custom command Action of keypress(13) might work for some websites.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Suzaine,

If you want Speech Recognition Anywhere to always replace 'and' with '&' then you can use this custom command:

Phrase: and
Action: replace_word(&)

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jen,

Unfortunately, since it is Google's Web Speech API that is changing 'wanna' to 'want to' the only solution is to create a custom command that changes it all the time and then disable the custom command by unchecking the 'Enable' box when you want it to display 'want to'. The custom command would be:

Phrase: want to
Action: replace_word(wanna)

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Scarlett,

Unfortunately, I don't think that is possible. I think the only way to disable a custom command is to uncheck the "Enable" box next to the command. But if you let me know what the Action is for the custom command then I can let you know for sure.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff, Thanks for replying, Take for example, Reply that you've made to David. How to disable it when I'm on a certain website

Does the free trial end in a subscription? Will I be billed at the end of the 30 days?

I have a problem since chrome is updated, every time when i put SRA on or off it opens in a new tab, i saw that there is a updat available, how do i get that update? i have version 1.3.1

Hi Lisa,

No, it will not bill automatically. In order to purchase it you have to click on the "Buy" button at the Chrome Web Store listing and confirm your payment information. If you want to remove the extension then right click the extension icon and the click on "Remove from Chrome".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi teeke,

If it is not updating automatically then you might have a problem with your computer. You can try restarting the computer but if there are problems like a corrupted Windows from malware or a corrupted Chrome then it may not work. You can also try a Chrome Reset and then reinstall the extension. But if there are problems with the computer then it may not work.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I encountered a problem with the application after a Google Chrome update, the application crashes numerous times and requires a full restart of Google Chrome, please give me some assistance as I have purchased the full version.
Thank you
Ivan

Hi Scarlett,

For that command you can try this custom command to have it do nothing when on youtube and Google Docs:

Phrase: (.*?)
Action: if (window.self===window.top && !location.host.match(/youtube.com|docs.google.com/i)) open("https://www.google.com/search?q=$1")

This is advanced programming and it won't work in every situation or with every command. For example, the above Action will not work correctly on the Speech Recognition Anywhere tab. But on any other tab it should go to google.com and do a search with what was spoken. But if the current tab is at youtube.com or docs.google.com then it won't go to google.com and do a search.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Ivan,

It sounds like your computer or Chrome is corrupted. You probably need to have the computer checked for malware and viruses. If it is just Chrome that is corrupted then you can try a Chrome Reset. A Chrome Reset will remove all extensions and and reset all settings in Chrome to default. Then you can reinstall Speech Recognition Anywhere at the Chrome Web Store Listing: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speech-recognition-anywhe/kdnnmhpmcakdilnofmllgcigkibjonof

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Okay, thank you for the help.

Thanks Jeff for your reply, my software is an Ubuntu version, I though about doing resetting of chrome but I purchase the complete version of the extension and I wonder if I will have to purchase it once more.
Waiting for your kind reply.

Regards,

Ivan

Hi Ivan,

No, you won't have to purchase it again. As long as you are signed into Chrome with the same Google account that you used to purchase the extension with then Chrome will check the license and let you use the full version.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thanks Jeff.for getting back to me.
Regards

I wish I could use your extention on my desktop onenote Alas...

Hi Tina,

Since Speech Recognition is a Chrome extension it can only work on websites within Chrome. You can try using OneNote online at www.onenote.com/ It works pretty well but it uses a non-standard textarea so commands like "New paragraph", "New line", and "Press Enter" don't work correctly. So you may want to create a custom "Press Enter" command for it like so:

Phrase: Press enter
Action: keypress(13)

You can also try www.evernote.com/ as an alternative. Some people like it better than OneNote. It also works fine with commands like "New paragraph", "New line", and "Press Enter".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Jeff, please help me

I want speech recognition to write 100,200,300.. when I speak hundred, two hundred....

Secondly when I'm dictating on page (where your setting, instructions, custom commands are given) I don't like the dictated text being written on the topmost, although it eventually comes done to the last written text, If you can make some changes so that my dictated text (during the time of dictation) comes next to the last written text, it would be little less annoying.

Thanks

Jeff, I'm afraid, your custom command doesn't seem to work
Also please let Speech to text work on youtube/google when (*?) is disabled.

Additionally to let you know-

1) I want
Phrase=(.*?)
Action=https://www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=$1

2) I just don't want to operate it on youtube/google docs/ xyz website. But I would still want speech to text to work.

Moreover, You already have custom command
"Disable Voice Commands (Only Speech-To-Text will work)"

Please revert, if you are able to work it out. Thankyou

I came across an extention speechpad, It has a feature automatic copy to clipboard and erase from speech recognition textbox area. I wonder if your extention can also do that

Site I Mentioned=https://voicenotebook.com/

Can you assign a key for pausing extention in chrome. You already have scripted, for pausing it when audio is playing

Hi John,

You can setup a hotkey to open and close the extension at chrome://extensions/shortcuts 
Then in the extension settings make sure that you have both of these settings checked:'Start "Speech Recognition Anywhere" in the background'
'Click extension icon a second time to close the extension'
 
Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Jeff dear, I don't wish to close extention as it takes some time for it to load. Can't we've have any custom command, so that we can ourselves decide any hotkey to pause extention.

Jeff can you improve text box a bit- Just add bullets please

I am testing the new Microsoft Edge, i just installed your app, but when i want to use it is not giving me any text. Is there any problem to work with Edge?

Hi Niord,

It will not work with Edge. It is a Chrome extension so it will only work in websites in Chrome browser.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hey can you give custom url to goto last comment directly, We have to click on view all comments after we click your cutom url "http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/speech/#custom"

Can an option be made, that my each dictated text, comes to new line, instead of side by side ?

Hi Nick,

You can try the following custom command to have each dictated text have a new line before it. It does not work well though. While it is enabled it will override all other built in commands so you won't be able to use them:

Phrase: (.*?)
Action: replace_word(<br>)

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

i use in in google doc but because of auto save the texting stop al the time . where else can I use it. so I wont have to deal with auto save ?
thank you
susan

Jeff I have already set (.*?) for www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=$1

What should I do ?

Hi Susan,

I'm not sure why it would do that. It is working fine for me and many others in Google Docs. You may have another problem on your computer. You might need to uninstall other extensions or reset Chrome. 

You can also try any online text editor. Another one that many users use is https://anotepad.com


Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Guys, I'm experienced a error object HTMLDivElement] on my full speech recognition everywhere app installed on chrome browser,I cant' figure out what's the issue, can you assist me on this matter please?
Thanks, waiting for you kind reply
ivanjam

Hi Ivan,

That error is caused by another extension causing an error in Chrome. You will probably need to uninstall other extensions until you find the one that is causing the problem. You also might need to have the computer checked for malware and viruses. If it is just Chrome that is corrupted then you can try a Chrome Reset. A Chrome Reset will remove all extensions and and reset all settings in Chrome to default. Then you can reinstall Speech Recognition Anywhere at the Chrome Web Store Listing:
chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speech-recognition-anywhe/kdnnmhpmcakdilnofmllgcigkibjonof  

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi
i am interested in deploying speech recognition anywhere in my webpage that will be used in our internal network. Please let me know if i can use the Full version offline since i will not be connected to internet.

Hi Raj Bakhale,

No. Speech Recognition Anywhere uses Google's web speech API technology and it has to be connected to the Internet for it to work.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff,
‌Thanks for this great application, which I have been testing for a few days. I will buy the license at the end of the trial period.
I use the extension in French, it seems that a detail could be improved.
Indeed, the word "more" ("plus" in french ") and the symbol" + "is pronounced the same. For exemple, in my text, where I would like to have in French" more and more ", appears on the screen "+ and +".

In French, we often use the word "more", and very rarely the symbol "+" (as in English for that matter). it would be interesting to delete the "additional command" for the "+" symbol.
What do you think ?

thanks :)

Hello Nicolas L,

Thank you for letting me know about that. I will see if I can change that in a future update. In the meantime, you can try creating a custom command that might fix the problem for you. Try a custom command like the one below and it should change the + to more after you speak a sentence. 

Phrase: (.*?)(\+)(.*?)
Action: $1 more$3

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thanks Jeff,

Great tips ! I will upgrade to have this custom command.
I love your extension :)

thanks

Hello Nicolas L,

You're welcome! You can create the command now if you want. There are 3 custom commands included in the free trial and you can edit them in any way you want.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Have paid for upgraded Speech Recognition Anywhere. When I open the page for dictation the Settings are all grayed out I can not use them and says you need upgrade. Google says its a developer problem developer says its a Google problem?

Jeff, Can you please help me with google map, I want to hide side panel automatically after I make a custom search with your extention

Nice concept but it does not work. It works sometimes and then it stops. So before I pay for this program I would like to see it work completely and it does not but it's a nice program if it worked

I'm excited to find this and I'm using the free trial right now. It's working fine to post my comment here on your page but in HubSpot my text isn't saved it's hearing what I'm saying accurately but then the text disappears. and by the way the word technical is misspelled in the titling on your support page. can you help me with making it work in HubSpot? Thank you

Hello Leslie Riggs,

Thank you for the information. I have not used HubSpot. It seems to have many different parts. Can you tell me which part you are using that the extension is not working on?

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thanks Jeff, yesterday it wasn't working on a form within the app but I just tested it and it's working so I'll test some more because I know there was someplace else I found yesterday with a similar challenge where it was a form on a website that wasn't responding I can't remember what it was that I was using so I'll probably come across it again today..

Hi Jeff
I just bought your product and I think it's amazing!
The only problem I'm encountering using your it in my ticket system called Rhinoceros: I don't know why every sentence is duplicated

You can try by yourself "Speech Recognition Anywhere" at this link
cgworldgroup.rhinosupport.com/single.htm?id=KP6PPQRJRK&user=bLGGjlFppH#actionReply

Every time I say something copied in space duplicated
Please come let me know if you have any suggestion!
thanks

Hi cirosan,

I see the problem. I'll see if there is a way to fix it. In the meantime, it looks like you will have to copy and paste the speech from the Speech Recognition Anywhere box or from a box on another page into the box that is duplicating when you do the speech directly into it.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Jeff, I want a command to run only when I say OK Google, Rest of the time it should stay inactive despite being checked along with other commands in custom commands menu

Eg- If I wanted for this command to activate/run with Ok Google (and not all commands)
(.*?)
www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=$1

Harry, 

Phrase: OK Google (.*?)
Action: www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=$1  

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

It is not working on Edge.

Hi Devulsky,

Speech Recognition Anywhere will not work with Edge or other Chromium based browsers at this time. Speech Recognition Anywhere uses the Web Speech API which is built into Chrome and Chromium. The Web Speech API speech recognition technology in Chrome was developed by Google developers. Also Chrome and Chromium were developed by Google developers. However, even though the new Edge browser is a Chromium based browser it is developed by third-party developers and does not have the Web Speech API speech recognition technology. 
At this time the Speech Recognition Anywhere extension only works on Chrome and Chromium made by Google for desktop. It works on Windows, Mac and some versions of Linux.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Maybe it is not the right moment to change to Edge.
Thank you Jeff!

Your extension is so damn cool, none like it
Can you make it work on our desktop (Windows)
You are so cool man....I wish you do that soon
And you deserve so much
Have a good day!!

hallo, ist es möglich, dass man auch die anfangsbuchstaben klein schreiben kann? zum beispiel anstatt Ich trage einen ring. Ich haben diesen schon lange. "ich tragen einen ring. ich trage diesen schon lange." des weiteren wäre meine frage, ob man anstatt dem scharfen ß auch doppel ss schreiben kann, wie bespielsweise anstatt ich weiß "ich weiss" schreibt?
lieben gruss ameisal

Hallo ameisal,

Verwenden Sie diesen benutzerdefinierten Befehl, um alles in Kleinbuchstaben zu schreiben:
Phrase: Kleinbuchstaben (.*?)
Action: document.execCommand("InsertHTML", false, "$1 ".toLowerCase())

Sagen Sie dann "Kleinbuchstaben was Sie schreiben möchten"

Um ß in ss zu konvertieren, verwenden Sie diesen benutzerdefinierten Befehl:
Phrase: (.*?)ß(.*?)
Action: replace_word($1ss$2)

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hello when I try to use this in Gmail with multiple G chat threads open the text is inputted in what seems to be like every possible field. the words I speak appear in both the Gmail search bar and all open Gchat threads simultaneously. any insight to why this may be or a work around?

Hi A S,

The Gmail chat (aka hangouts) uses different iFrames with each chat box. Unfortunately, Javascript does not have a way to detect which iFrame is currently active, so in order to use the iFrames that are on the page the extension has to type into each one. At the moment there are two options:
1. You can only have one chat box open at a time.
2. On the Speech Recognition Anywhere tab in the "Settings" check the box for "Disable Auto Focus on nearest text box when speech is heard". With that setting you then have to manually click in whichever textbox you want the speech to type in on every web page.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hello Jeff.

Can you help me with "finding" stuff on page?
For example, "find" a specific word on the page I'm on.

Yes I'm using the built-in command "Find", but it's not doing anything. And by the word history, the extension heard me correctly...
I also turned on "virtual assistant mode", but it didn't do anything.

So, can you give me a custom comment for this? And in the meantime maybe fix this bugs?

Thank you in advance!

Hi Lucian Andries,

I tested the "find" command and it is working well. Make sure that you don't have any custom commands with the word "find" in it or custom commands that are overriding all other commands such as a phrase with .*?

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Pffff....

I have:
- Google (.*?)
- (?:find |search )(?:from |to )?(.*?)
- Wikipedia (.*?)
- Uppercase (.*?)
- Capitalise (.*?)

Which one should I turn off?? I need ALL btw!

Also, I disabled all the custom commands, and it's still not working. Not sure WHAT is working for you.....

PS: Is there a better way to talk to you, than this thing?
Just put "Disqus" on here. Trust me, it's worth it, and it's 100x better!

Hi Lucian Andries,

Disable the command with (?:find |search )(?:from |to )?(.*?)
That phrase would disable the built in find command.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I said I disabled ALL my custom commands, not just .*?, and still did not work. I even deleted them...

As for that command I deleted it, coz it wasn't working anyway. I found it on these comments.

Hi Lucian Andries,

Unfortunately, I don't know why "find" is not working for you. You might try unchecking all the "Settings" on the Speech Recognition Anywhere tab. One of them might be conflicting. Also, if the page you are trying the "find" command on has iframes then it may not work properly. It may state that it didn't find the phrase in one of the iframes. This is a problem with Gmail because it uses a lot of iframes. Unfortunately, with Javascript programming there is no way to determine the active frame. I have researched it for years and have not found a way to fix that. You might try testing the "find" command on a more basic webpage without iframes if that is the case.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Pfff, I found the culprit..... God damn it, and it's bad.
I unchecked everything as you said, and checked them back one by one.

It's the friggin "Disable yellow speech bubble (Only final speech will display)" setting!!!

I have it disabled, coz the yellow bubbles are.....let's say distracting.
It doesn't have any issues with VTT or custom commands, so I thought everything worked great... It seems I assumed wrong.

And if I enable yellow bobbles, EVERY built-in command started working..............

Jeff, please try and fix this setting.


PS: iframes do not block stuff from working. As long as you are highlighting the iframe you want, everything is good. This implies clicking inside a text box.

PPS: As for finding words or whatever, it should just go from the header to the footer, selecting them one by one. Even if all iframes are identical elements to a page, with identical names, they are still put in a specific order.
The guy with the Gmail issue should do what you

Hi Lucian Andries,

It looks like you found a bug. I will try to fix that as soon as possible.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Finally! Finally, I have found a real bug... Or made you acknowledge one. :) :P

Too bad those I reported on the chrome web store can't be fixed. :(
I meant the A+ extension ones...

If only I knew coding......... Maybe I could've fixed the currency converter extension, or just make one myself. :((((((((

Wow, that was fast. It's working now, thank you! �'�

Hey, I found the other culprit, that was giving me headaches...

Remember when I said it was typing the words in EU English, instead of the US English that I selected?

Example: CapitaliSe instead of CapitaliZe

It's because of freaking GEO-LOCATION!!!!
I got the idea to try it with my VPN connected to US, and voila, it's freaking working!!!!

Now, is the tone of languages your add-on, or is it part of the API?
Because, why the hell give the possibility to choose a specific region, if you don't allow it to work at all????? (google)

So, is it another bug, or?
Can it be blocked from reading my location?
And if we can, will it finally use the selected region(language), or it's just there to look pretty? :|

There has to be a fix for this... :(

I have a new one. Don't know what it is yet...

So, on Reddit when I vtt something, it always scrolls the page to the top. The thing I say is heard perfectly, and it doesn't resemble with the command "scroll to top".
Also, it does it on everything I say. :|

Got any ideas for this? �"
Dunno how many websites do this, yet. But it's something new, as it didn't do this before...

Cheers!

Hi Lucian Andries,

The Web Speech API specification has a lang attribute that should be able to accept language code and region code. Unfortunately, Google can program Chrome's Web Speech API any way they want. It appears you are correct. For some languages it appears they are ignoring the region code and detecting your location from ip address. For myself, I can't get it to display text in British english. I even tried changing the language in Chrome to English (United Kingdom). It is annoying that they did that. We can only hope that Google will change it in the future.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Lucian Andries,

Reddit scrolling to the top on speech recognition appears to have something to do with the way they have the header element and the search bar on Reddit. It appears to happen when the extension had the yellow speech bubble enabled. I'll see if there is a way to fix it in the future. It is strange though, because other pages like Google search have a similar header with a search bar and they don't scroll to the top. So Reddit is doing something different than normal. 

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hey.

About the Speech API. Yes, but can't we block the API from reading ip addresses and other tracking methods?
I believe by doing so, it will be forced to use the selected language.

Google are cretins. That, or it's the battle of the century, for who has the most data on us, vs Facebook, Amazon, etc...

How to search on google images

www.google.com/images?q=$0 (This is not working)

Hi Sanjana,

Try this custom command for Google images search:

Phrase: (Images|Pictures)( of)? (.*?)
Action: https://www.google.com/search?q=$3&tbm=isch
Description: Say "Pictures of cats" or "Images of horses"  

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Wie kann ich auf dem programm doppel ss schreiben anstatt ß

ss anstatt ß

Jeff,
Your extention for no reason, keeps on opening "Sexy Video",
What's the issue
I've not uttered any single word, No sound, nothing
Still all of a sudden, this window opens up,
Can you fix it

P.s. I'm not faking or joking it, it is really happening again n again

Hallo Yigit,

Versuchen Sie diesen benutzerdefinierten Befehl:
Phrase: (.*?)ß(.*?)
Action: replace_word($1ss$2)

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Frank,

The extension does not do that. It sounds like your computer operating system or your Chrome browser is infected with a virus or malware. You can try a Chrome Reset. The instructions are at: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/32962

But you should also have your computer scanned for viruses and malware by a professional and have them removed.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Can I restrict just 2 words from opening (Sexy) (Video) they keep on opening, Not always, but like anytime, My computer is not affected by any virus or malware, I can assure you that

I mostly use www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=$1
On this the word video comes without me even uttering anything

Hmm... Frank, click on the extension's opened tab, I will assure you will not see those words in the speech history.

You may check other extensions you have? As I know for a fact that there are fake extensions out there. Trust me!

And while you say you're malware free, did you check with Malwarebytes and Bitdefender?

Still, still, this gave me an idea for a feature?

Jeff, can you add an option to block Adult crap, even if it was intentionally said?
It's not necessarily a kid mode, but let's say it's to prevent the API from "mishearing" words? Just saying. :)

Have fun.

Hallo Jeff,

vielen Dank für Deine Hilfe, es funktioniert :)

Ich habe noch eine frage, wie mache ich das das der erste Buchstabe klein geschrieben wird anstatt gross beim satz anfang?

Beispiel:

anstatt:
Das grosse Buch

Neu:
das grosse Buch


Vielen Dank für Deine Hilfe im Voraus.

Freundliche Grüsse,
Yigit

Hallo Yigit, 

You can try this custom command:

Phrase: Kleinbuchstaben (. *?)
Action: document.execCommand("InsertHTML", false, "$1 ".toLowerCase())

Um es zu benutzen, sagen Sie: "Kleinbuchstaben das grosse Buch" 
 
Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Frank and Lucian Andries,

If Frank is using the custom command with the action: http://www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=$1 then it sounds like his microphone might be too close to his speakers or his speaker volume is too loud so when Google responds with voice then the speech recognition hears it and it might be mishearing the words. There also might be fan noise or another noise that is causing the speech recognition to mishear. Frank probably needs to turn down the volume on the speakers and possibly the volume on the mic and move them away from each other.

A custom command like this could be used to block adult words:

Phrase: sex|sexy|porn|pornography|adult
Action: replace_word(Blocked)

But it needs to be above the command with the phrase (.*?) that goes to Google. Because once the commands reach the phrase (.*?) it overrides any commands after that.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Koniichi wa Jeff.

1. No, it's not any background noise. Think about it logically, the ONLY words are "Sexy Video", always.
Now IF it were speaker echo or background noise, then it should "hear" other words as well, not only sexy caca. It makes no sense.

2. The custom command is cool and all, but I still think a built-in option is better, as nobody knows of this custom command.

And about commands needing to be above others for priority........ Well I have 10 others. How do I easily do this? I suggest also adding the option to move/rearrange the commands in the list. Either by clicking and dragging, or using arrows...

3. Does the command replace the words with Blocked in the search result? Or just blocks the search from happening, when using those words? The latter would be better.

4. Have a nice day!

Jeff
Can you explain it bit how to write custom command to block those words, I'm seriosuly sick n tired of video coming again n again or sexy video or video video video coming again. I don't know what's wrong, what virus is it, none to be detected, but please tell me how to stop it :(

Jeff,
Even if I kept searching off, still in speechbox I can see, "Sexy Video, "blue picture", "Video video video", "video, These words are repeating. Can something be done about it

Frank:

Whoa, I really didn't expect that..... How the ffffffrick??

Can you record a bit when this is happening, and also show what other extensions you are using?

I would suggest 2 things, if the browser is that screwed up:
1. Uninstall, then reinstall Speech Recognition Anywhere. It fixed some issues for me a while back. Try it.
2. If it's still bad, then Reset Chrome. Clear all its Cache and Cookies.

If that doesn't fix it, then nothing will...

For the custom command, Jeff already told you how. It's really easy.

Good luck.

I am unable to use custom command, and If I will reset chrome I will loose lot of my important data, I don't know what should I do, I even tried reinstalling Jeff extention, but to no effect. I need your help jeff (so that it doesn't even record those words!

I even tried on chrome portable just now, Same thing happening :(

Jeff, Can extention be paused if we speak no word and gets activated only when we speak, this will solved Frank problem to some extent I guess

What would be action, to simply search on google without google assitant

Hi Frank,

I'm sorry. I don't know how to explain the custom command to block words any more than I did. You just copy the phrase and paste into a custom command phrase box and then copy the action and paste into the action box.

If you can't move your mic away from your speakers or turn the volume down then I would recommend 2 things. First, on Speech Recognition Anywhere Settings check the box for 'Pause "Speech Recognition Anywhere" if audio is playing in a tab'. That way if any audio comes from a website such as Google assistant responding then Speech Recognition will pause while it is speaking. Second, you may want to change your Google assistant search command to have a keyword in front of it so that it only activates if you say something like "Google" first. Like this:

Phrase: Google,? (.*?)
Action: https://www.google.com/search?gs_ivs=1&inm=vs&q=$1

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Allen,

To search on google without google assistant you could use this custom command:

Phrase: Google,? (.*?)
Action: https://www.google.com/search?q=$1
Description: Say "Google images of cats"

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

George is right. I forgot about this... Mostly because I use a custom command for searching.
But yes, if all things fail, just enable this setting "Use Voice Activation Wake Up Phrase", and set whatever wakeup word you want. This WILL help. :)

Also: About reseting Chrome... Login in Chrome with your Google account. And set it to Auto-Sync all your "everything". That way when you reset Chrome and log back in, all your settings, passwords, bookmarks, extensions, addresses, credit cards, etc, will be automatically restored to you. :)
The only issue is that you need to re-login into your favourite website, that's it. :)

It's the same thing as restoring everything on your phone. I love this!

Good rock.

Jeff,

I know it's unrelated but please tell me:

Is there a way to edit an extension's file, without the extension go crazy that it's corrupted and re-download itself?

Please please please please please??????
Yeah, it's the currency converter one, again.....
You don't need to do anything, just tell me if it's possible to do what I asked... And how...

Hi Jeff,

purchased the full upgrade a week ago. I'm on linux and using your plugin on a daily basis. The speech to text stuff works pretty good for me.


I have two comments:
1. I often switch between 2 languages. Iverytime I close the plug and open it again it sets back to the default language. Setting the proper language via voice command is sort of slow.
It would be great to have different shortcuts for different languages.

2. I have two microphones plugged into my computer and sometimes I don't know which microphone is used by the speech-to-text plugin. I cannot see that in the Chrome settings because these are only for websites. I have a default microphone in my Linux sound settings, but sometimes this is taken by zoom, because I'm joining zoom sessions and using your plugin simultaneously. It would be great to see which microphone is currently used by your plugin.

Hi Peter Quiel,

If you set the language with your voice then it is temporary just for that session. But if you set the language manually with the mouse then it should save to that language for the next time you open the extension. If it is not saving when you set the language in "Settings" with the mouse then unfortunately there might be some corruption on your Chrome browser.

You can create a custom command to change languages but it may not save much time:
Phrase: English
Action: set_language(English)
Description: say "English" to change language to English temporarily

I'm not very sure about how to determine which microphone is being used but you could go to chrome://settings/content/microphone in Chrome and see if that helps.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff,

thanks for your response.

I created new commands for changing languages and that makes it a little bit faster. I would prefer having different shortcuts for different languages, but this is sort of a workaround that is good enough.
I changed the default microphone in Chrome to the preferred mic and that works pretty good.

Best,
Peter

Jeff,

How much time does "temporary" mean, for changing tha language with that command?

Also, don't know if this is a bug or so. But sometimes the vtt just does not want to type what I say.
In the word history it heard everything perfectly, but did not want to type it...

I wait a few minutes and still nothing. I click outside the text box and back in the box and still nothing.
If I wait a while then say something else, then it works...
And it starts working normally, after I reloaded the extension, or close and reopen it...

Hmm, that makes me think it loses connection to the internet, or Google's server? It's only then when speech does not work...

Still, what do you think?

_____________________________________________________________


Peter,

Chrome's mic settings it's usually on Default. Meaning it will use the one that it is set as default mic in the system settings. And by priority, the one plugged in the integrated sound card.
Or does Linux not work in a

Ran out of characters.......

What I wanted to say at the end for Peter:
"Or does Linux not work in a similar way?"

Hi Lucian Andries,

Temporary means that if you change the language with your voice it is only changed until you close Speech Recognition Anywhere tab. It does not save the change. But if you manually change the language with the mouse in "Settings" then it saves that language even when you close and start Speech Recognition Anywhere again.

I don't know why it does not want to type what you say sometimes. I haven't seen any problems like that. It could be an Internet connection issue or an issue with Google's server.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Well, I mostly waste my time on YouTube, and there's where I encounter the issue with not typing.
It must be gugle, coz I have wired gigabit with fiber wire. :|

About the language, I have the tab pinned. I always use it, and I want it to auto start with chrome. Also, pinned tabs are very small. (But I prefer no tabs. Can you make it work with NO tabs open, please? Just a click on it should turn it ON / OFF)
And as I don't close my browser, I need to make a command for changing back to English. The only issue is that, it can't change to English US, just the default English. :|

Another issue I keep having: Each time it hears the word UNDER, it freaking deletes my last sentence, etc...
History hears it as UNDER, but for some reason it applies it as the command UNDO, if there is one... :((

And there are other words that act in a similar way. Can't remember them now.
I don't want to use it for Speech and Voice commands separately, meaning to disable one when using the other...

Is this a bug or a API issue? :(

I know it can never be perfect. But I'm ok with it being close to perfect. :)

Can you also add the option to rearrange the custom commands list? Please? You yourself said list position matters.

Yeah, the extension is bugged.

For the love of god, it just will not type single words, or whatever words!!!!!!!!

I tried VTT the word "finally" in the YouTube comments for half an hour..... I talked softly, I yelled, I said it close to the mic and I said it from across the room, it just will not work!

And no, it's not an internet or google server issue, I tested this as well.
The extension is dependent of the API, and the API is dependent on the internet. Otherwise it will just not work. So, if you disconnect the network cable, the extension is dead. Even if you see mic input on it, no words will ever appear in the word history.

And when my issue is doing its thing, the word history box was full of the word "finally", and other words. Meaning, it does has access to the internet and google server.

So, then what is the issue? I suspect a bug to be doing this.

Hi Lucian Andries,

Thank you for the example with the single word "finally". With that I was able to duplicate the bug. If commands are enabled then there are some single word phrases that will not type but will activate a command. Some of these single words are: end|home|left|right|up|down|start|stop|pause|continue|resume|copy|cut|paste|clear. Also the equivalent of those words in some other languages.

The bug is that the program is matching just part of a single word. In Spanish "fin" is "end" and it is matching the single word "finally" with "fin" and activating a command. With this bug you also will not be able to type the single words: endless,homeless, started,ended, etc... I will try to fix the bug as soon as possible.

In the meantime you can use this custom command to type some single words:
Phrase: Type (.*?)
Action: $1
Description: Say "Type finally"

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

I cant seem to get text to stay when I say something it just appears in a yellow box then disappears?

So it's a bug... But sometimes it doesn't type entire sentences, not just single words. Exactly what @brett leavitt said.

Could this be related to the single word issue as well, maybe? Because if I say a different sentence it works, or start with a different word... :/
If it does match command words, those commands don't get executed anyway. :o

And you said it matches another word in Spanish... But my mouse selected language is "English (United States)". Why would it cross languages? There is no "2 languages at the same time" feature, for a bug like this to exist. It's weird.

Here are my settings: imgur.com/ZHcNWvW

I know I'm using search and commands at the same time, but commands should only get triggered if nothing is said after the command words. Right?

Btw: About that custom command, do I get $1 after every "finally" word said? Can I get that in British Pounds, please? :D :p

But the worst one of all is saying something, and just not understanding I'm saying. At all.

Yeah I know, this is a API problem, but .......😭😭😭

Here I'm trying to say Guinea World Record:
"genius world record genius genius green areas yes genius junior genius world record give me a poem genius report Geneva Airport give me your cereal"..........

My english is not THAT bad... Is it? 😢😢�'"
It's a light and day difference between GUINEA and GENIUS, etc.🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😭😭😭😭😭

I know I know... I'm just [insert sad here]...

Hi brett leavitt,

Thanks for the video. I was able to go to bitrix24.com and duplicate the issue. Unfortunately, I'm not sure why it is not working in that comment box. Other websites have similar boxes and it works fine. It might be that they are using some kind of security to prevent malware bots from submitting things. I will look into it and see if I can figure it out and make an update. In the meantime, it looks like you will have to speak into a text box on another website such as https://anotepad.com/ and then copy and paste the text into bitrix24.com.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Ok, thanks for the update and appreciate the time to look into it.

I'll make a note to follow up as this would be SUPER helpful to have!!

Hi brett leavitt,

I worked on the issue. It is not perfect. When you click on a lead at bitrix24.com the website opens too many iframes that confuses the extension. It will now speak what you say 1 time in the comment box but then it will go to another box behind. So you would have to keep clicking in the comment box to refocus. But there are 2 workarounds you can do:

1. Instead of clicking on a Lead you can right click on the Lead and then click "Open link in new tab". This will open the Lead in a new tab and then it types in the box without problems.

2. In Speech Recognition Anywhere "Settings" you can check the setting "Disable Auto Focus on nearest text box when speech is heard". That will cause it to work correctly. But on every website you would have to click in the box you want to type in before speaking or it won't type anything.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi I would like to promote your software on my youtube channel, Would you be willing for a commission ?

Cómo canceló la prueba gratuita? No me gustó la extensión.

Hola Sandy,

Haga clic con el botón derecho en el icono de Reconocimiento de voz en cualquier lugar y luego haga clic en "Deinstalar de Chrome...". Si Chrome no muestra el icono, haga clic en el icono "Extensiones" en la barra de herramientas de Chrome. Parece una pieza de rompecabezas. Busque Reconocimiento de voz en cualquier lugar de la lista y haga clic en el botón "Más" al lado. Parece tres puntos verticales ⋮ Luego haga clic en "Deinstalar de Chrome...".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi,

I have the problem that every text is printed twice on Evernote Web Application.
This is a new problem.

It would be really great if you could have a look at it.

Cheers, Peter

Hi Peter,

An update has been made to fix the Evernote issue. Chrome should automatically roll out the new version soon. Version 1.3.9 of Speech Recognition Anywhere. 

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Great, thanks for the update.

Awesome, thanks! YOUR THE MAN option 2 works FINE for ME!

SUper appreciate the time you took to research and provide this feedback and work around

Hey Jeff!

So I'm struggling with using vtt and voice commands at the same time...
Are you experiencing the same?

Like, after you vtt in a text box, you say at the end the voice command "press enter", to post, send or search the thing you wrote.
But right before it takes the command, it replaces the text with the voice command or it adds it at the end of what you wrote... It depends on the site what it does. :/

If I click outside of the box, the voice command doesn't work anymore. Because I have this enabled: "Disable Auto Focus on nearest text box when speech is heard".

So, does this happen to you, too? Or I'm just unlucky?
And it's doing it every time...

Also: For these voice commands "Arrow Keys and Cursor", can you add these commands "press ctrl home" and "press ctrl end", to move the text cursor to the very beginning and the very end? That would be very helpful, who doesn't like combos? :)

Hope you're safe. Thank you!

Hi Lucian Andries,

You can't use vtt with a voice command at the same time, otherwise the speech recognition thinks that the voice command is part of the voice to text. You have to say the vtt statement and then allow the speech recognition to recognize it and print it on the screen and then you can say a voice command.

There is already a voice command for moving the cursor to the very beginning and very end of a text box. Say, "Move cursor to top" or "Move cursor to bottom". Or you can create a custom command:

Phrase: Press (ctrl|control) home
Action: moveCursor(top)
Description: Say "Press ctrl home"

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hey.

Well that's what I do. I say the text, wait for it to be written, then say the command.
It takes the command, it always does. But it writes/replaces the text with the command first. So it's a bug.

It needs to not write anything when a command is given. Even if a text box is selected. You know what I mean?
When it detects voice commands, vtt is disabled. And when detecting random text, voice commands are disabled.

Thanks for the commands, must've missed them...

Btw, can you add a Dark Mode to it? Please?

Hi Lucian Andries,

Can you tell me what website it does this on and what vtt you are saying and then what voice command? I can't duplicate the issue. Could it be happening because of a certain setting enabled or a certain custom command enabled?

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Nevermind, it's user error...🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

But can you please add this voice commands as built in? For pressing buttons?
"press=esc, send, submit, comment, cancel, ok, yes, no".

And other interaction buttons... Thank you!

Hello, how can you ensure that the first word at the beginning of a sentence is also written in lower case?
Thks for help

Hi Heinz Köhnen,

You can create a custom command to make everything lowercase all the time. But with this custom command enabled you will not be able to use any voice commands because it overrides all other commands:

Phrase: lowercase (.*?)
Action: document.execCommand("InsertHTML", false, "$1 ".toLowerCase())
Description: Lowercase everything. No capitals
 
Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

How can I delete the last word using custom command? Could you please help?

Hi andyhanoi,

To delete the last word you can say: "Delete last word". Or you can create a custom command like this:

Phrase: last word
Action: undo(word)
Description: Say "Last word" to delete the last word

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

It works pretty well. Thank you so much Jeff.
I am using SRA with Vietnamese language. All wonderful built-in English commands doesn't work for my user, could you please give corresponding custom commands so I can redefine the Phrase to make SRA works... Now I am stucked with navigation custom commands:

Arrow Keys and Cursor
(Press) (the) Home|End|Up|Down|Left|Right (arrow) (key) (n time(s))
Move|Place|Put (the) Cursor (to|on|in|at) (the) up|left|right|down|end|start|home|top|bottom (by|of) (n) (the) (time|line|word|character|space|letter|sentence|paragraph|box|text|field)(s)

Please HELP!

Hi andyhanoi,

The action for Arrow keys and cursor is: moveCursor(keyword)
The basic keywords are: up|left|right|down|end|start|home|top|bottom

You can also add a number variable for how many times you want it to move and then you can add what type of move you want to make such as: line|word|character|letter|sentence|paragraph. (Default is word) For example:moveCursor(left, 2, character) 
will move the cursor to the left 2 characters.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Jeff, thanks for your work. I have a little issue: how can i start a new paragraph?

Hi encitar,

You can start a new paragraph by saying "New paragraph". But make sure you don't say it right after saying a sentence or it will think it is part of the sentence. Pause for a second before and after saying "New Paragraph". You can also say "New line".

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Thank you so much Jeff, your solutions works for me, the navigation in Vietnamese work well now.
I'm very sorry to have another question: How can I put NEW LINE character in the Action box like "n" in C language. Now I need to break the sentence and put enter_key(1) to have that but it runs slowly, some times doesn't work... and once I have long long content for ACTION, it's difficult and inconvenient to put
;enter_key(1); every where...

Hi andyhanoi,

You can try something like this for the action: 
script(document.execCommand("InsertHTML", false, "Hi there.<br>How are you?"))

<br> seems to work for both textareas and contentEditable DIVs. 
But \n seems to work for textareas only.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

hi Jeff.
i use your extension on a pair of computer. Is possible to transfer settings from acomputer to an other? (kind of export and import)

Hi encitar,

No, there is no import/export for settings. But there are import and export buttons for the custom commands.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hello Jeff,

Congratulations for your work. Is there any way to place paragraph brakes within large automatic texts?

Hi Michalis Mantatzis,

Yes. To have paragraph breaks you will have to make a custom command with an action like this:

Action: Hi there.<br><br>How are you?

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Koniichi wa!

All these websites going Dark with A+ is good and all.

But this extension needs a Dark Mode as well, together with A+. Seriously. This and A+ need Dark UIs!

I woke up with a red eye one time, and my TV killed me...😭😭

Sorry for writing this here, but you don't have a page for A+ as well. And you very rarely go to the Chrome store...

"Request:

Hello Jeff! Can you please make it remember settings by the site's address WITHOUT the "www"? Like: Remember site by "movie.com", NOT by "www.movie.com". Why? Because there are sites that change their subdomains very often, and it's very annoying...

Example: "www.movie.com, ww3.movie.com, w20.movie.com, etc". And each of them require to be set again, font size or background color. Can you please do it? Thank you.

Here are 2 examples: ww2.watchmovie.movie | www1.animeultima.to

Sorry for writing this here, but you don't have a page for A+ as well. And you very rarely go to the Chrome store...

"Background Color Issue:

Hello Jeff! Jeff, please please, please, fix this bug, it's the biggest and the worst! Actually it's the only bug...

The bug is like this: On streaming sites, if you change the background color, the extension puts an overlay of that color on top of the video player. Sound comes out, but you're just starring at that color the entire "video"... This bug is on all websites, except for youtube.
Please fix it! Please please please please please! Pretty please? It's the last thing I'm asking you this year...

Here are 2 examples: watchmovie.movie | putlocker1.to

Happy Hollydays Jeff, see you next year! Take care!"

Hi Lucian Andries,

No. I can't change that. There are legitimate websites that use prefixes and if the prefix is removed it will mess things up for others. I can't think of any good reasons for websites to keep changing their subdomain or prefix unless they are doing something shady or illegal. Please don't use websites like that. Check out nice websites like this one, it has beneficial information: https://www.jw.org/

I tried to solve the videos being blanked out before. I'll take a look again. But I don't know if I will be able to solve it or not.
Dark Mode is a planned future feature. But it may take a while.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hey, thanks for the reply!

WWW:

"Shady sites"...... Well they do post ripped tv shows. Same for anime sites. But the sources are third party. Nothing shady about it. They change the address coz they are being taken down, duh.
But you know, not everyone can pay subscriptions to 10 official networks and streaming services. So, let's leave the criticizing alone, please!

I know there are websites that need the www in order to function, and vice versa. Hmm... How about make it save websites With and Without the "www" at the same time? That will surely fix the issue. The save file won't affect the PC's performance, coz we don't use it on billions of websites... Try that please!


VIDEOS BEING BLANKED OUT:

You tried fixing it before and couldn't? Hmm... How about make it not overlay over anything java, not just video players? Coz maybe it trouble identifying java players from java ads, on some websites? Maybe? So just making it work with the general java code, might do the tri

DARK MODE:

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!! �'"�'"�'"�'"�'"�'"�'�


I don't know anything about coding, obviously. But maybe you can understand what I'm trying to say with my "ideas", and hope they can help in any way.....

Have a very nice day!

hallo
ich habe die vollversion gekauft,aber das funkioniert nicht.Könnten Sie mal nachschauen warum das die vollversion nicht funkionert?

mit freundlichen Grüßen
cüneyit saglam

Hallo cuneyt saglam,

Können Sie erklären, auf welche Weise es nicht funktioniert? Möglicherweise verursacht eine andere Erweiterung einen Konflikt. Gehen Sie zu chrome://extensions/ und deaktivieren Sie alle anderen Erweiterungen und starten Sie den Computer neu. Wenn es immer noch nicht funktioniert, müssen Sie möglicherweise einen Chrome-Reset durchführen. Die Anweisungen zum Zurücksetzen von Chrome finden Sie hier: support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Koniichi wa!

I need a command for using Google Translate.

I say Google Translate X, and it will open a new tab with my predefined chosen languages.

EX: translate.google.ro/?sl=en&tl=ro&op=translate&hl=en

It'd be cool to create a reverse one as well, but the API doesn't support dual-language, without manually changing them... :(
Hmm, about this. Jeff, can you add a setting to: When changing the extension language by voice, it will only last for the amount of seconds I set it to, then it will automatically Revert to the EXACT language it was set ON? I'm sure it can be done, but are you willing...?

And why revert to the EXACT language? Because the extension does not know there are a TON of English languages in that list to choose from.........
So if I set it to just "English", then changing it to my language temporarily, and then tell it to switch back to English, the extension will choose "English UK" or "English US", depending on your region and not the manual s

DUMB SITE!!! Everything fit into the 1000 characters. And yet, it's cut off........ smh

hi

Thank you so much for your amazing extension. We use it daily and so far we defined more than 1300 rules in CUSTOM COMMANDS, the export command file is about 126KB. Once the file imported to another computer, it makes SRA runs so SLOWLY or we can say SRA hang or stuck... Is there any limitation for custom commands or do you have any suggestion for us to resolve perfomance issues?

Btw Jeff, I forgot to mention an issue........

Everytime I say the word "underestimate", the extension deletes half of what I wrote.... It's like an "undo" command.

Why? I mean, "undo" and "underestimate" sound very different. What voice command do you have in english, that sounds like "underestimate"?
Stupidest word ever...

I always nix mouse typing and vtt, coz the API can't understand every word, and distinguish from sentence to sentence. So it gets rid of a lot I typed.

Is there a way to fix this too? Maybe?

Hi andyhanoi,

1300 custom commands is very large. You would probably need a very fast computer with a lot of RAM and very few programs running for it to work. Is there any way you could combine most of the commands by using regular expressions (regex)? You might need to hire a programmer that has knowledge of regex. There is a helpful regex tutorial at www.seabreezecomputers.com/speech/#custom and Mozilla has a good Regular expression syntax cheatsheet  

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Lucian Andries,
I will try to fix the undo bug in the next update.

You would have to create a different translate command for each language you use because Google Translate uses the language code abbreviations instead of the whole word. Or you could try using Google as a shortcut:

Phrase: Translate from (.*?) to (.*?)
Action: url(https://www.google.com/search?q=$0,true); click_keyword(Open in Google Translate)
Description: Say "Translate from English to Romanian"


You can create a command to switch to any language by escaping the parentheses with backslashes:

Phrase: English
Action: set_language(English \(United Kingdom\))
Description: Say "English" to change to English (United Kingdom)

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi,
How do u use this to
1) Seatch on Google Images
2) Search on World Map

Meow!

About Google Translate:
This command seem to only open a new tab with X languages.
"Phrase: Translate from (.*?) to (.*?)"

I needed something like "translate Cat from English to Romanian", and open the Result in a new tab...


About changing languages:
I want it to change to plain "English". Not EN UK, not EN US, not EN South Africa, not EN India, etc...
It has "plain" english in that list too.


Sorry, didn't have time to test them. I just saw the command and assumed that's how they work... :P

But thank you anyway man! Stay safe!

How do I temporary puse Speech Recognition Anywhere 365 FULL

Hi Andy Shay,

To pause speech to text you can say "Stop dictation" or "Stop speech to text". Commands will still work so you can start again by saying "Start dictation." 

If you want to start/stop text to speech and commands then you have to use a keyboard shortcut. First, on the Speech Recognition Anywhere tab click on "Settings" and check these two settings: 
'Start "Speech Recognition Anywhere" in the background'
'Click extension icon a second time to close the extension'

Then go to chrome://extensions/shortcuts in the browser and select your keyboard shortcut key.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

Hi Lucian Andries,

For something like "translate Cat from English to Romanian" you can try this custom command which is very similar:


Phrase: Translate (.*?) from (.*?) to (.*?)
Action: url(https://www.google.com/search?q=$0,true); click_keyword(Open in Google Translate)
Description: Say "Translate cat from English to Romanian"


Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/

It's not allowing me to send adult languages, whenever I say something that's a cuss word it gives me ***** behind the word, can you help me?

Hi Richard A Morgan,

You can try the following custom command, but you would have to make a separate command for each bad word:

Phrase: (.*?)(s\*+)(.*?)
Action: $1ship$3

Replace the s in the phrase with the first letter of the bad word for each custom command.  Replace ship in the action with the word you want to use.

Jeff
www.seabreezecomputers.com/