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Speech Recognition adds unwanted hyphens to numbers.

Anonymous
2015-01-24T10:33:39+00:00

I'm using windows 7.

I'm making a spreadsheet of stock information that includes product codes, that can be a mixture of numbers, letters and hyphens.

I have the basics up and running, using speech recognition to dictate the information for each stock item.

The problem is that some codes are just numbers, but Speech Recognition insists on adding hyphens to them.

As an example, one code is   1101039.  

When I read this out, Speech Recognition outputs it as 110-1039, even though I didn't ask for the hyphens.

If I say "remove hyphen from last word" it will result in 110 1039, which is wrong because it has a space.

I can ask for a correction, and then select the option that doesn't have a hyphen, but this slows things down.

These codes are critical, they cannot have erroneous hyphens and spaces in them.  It is an incredible irritation to have speech recognition messing them up with hyphens I never asked for.

How do I stop these unwanted hyphens?

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Anonymous
2015-01-26T07:44:16+00:00

Yeah right, thanks Microsoft. 

**Anyhow:**I've found a workaround.

  1.  Say the number.  The computer will get the number right, but add hyphens.
  2.  Say "Remove hyphens from last two words" gets rid of the hyphens.
  3.  Say "Remove spaces" to remove the gap left by the hyphen.
  4.  Profit!  

A few extra steps, and a little annoying, but works ok in practice.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-01-25T04:20:15+00:00

    Thanks for the reply.

    However I don't see how any  of those links address my issue.  The software and hardware is all running fine, it's the actual implementation that is the problem.

    How do any of the above links relate to the problem of extra hyphens being added to the middle of numbers?

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-01-26T08:26:26+00:00

    Hi,

    Thank you for the reply.

    Please do let us know if you need any help with Windows related issues, we'll be happy to assist you.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-01-25T08:50:32+00:00

    Thank you the quick reply.

    We do not have the exact resolution for the issue you are facing. We have to diagnose the issue to find the issue cause. There might be other applications conflict while using the Speech Recognition. Refer to the methods mentioned in the previous response and update the issue status.

    Clean boot will check if any third party application is causing the issue, as clean boot helps in eliminating software conflicts. Also suggest you to check the issue status in the clean boot

    How to troubleshoot problem by performing clean boot in Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

    Note: Once you are done with the troubleshooting, perform the steps in “How to reset the computer to start as usual after troubleshooting with clean boot “to reset computer as usual.

    Hope this helps.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-01-25T02:37:07+00:00

    Hi,

    Thank you for posting your question in Microsoft Community.

    From the issue description I can understand that you have an issue with Speech Recognition. We will try our best to help you in fixing the issue.

    Let's refer to the following issue diagnosing methods and check the issue status. These will help you isolate the issue to find the issue cause and right resolution.

    Method 1:

    Run the fixit provided in the below mentioned article and check if it helps fix the issue

    http://support.microsoft.com/mats/hardware\_device\_problems/en-us

    Reference these links:

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Set-up-Speech-Recognition 

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows7/Use-Speech-Recognition-to-operate-windows-and-programs

    Method 2:

    Refer to Thahaseena M’s replied on August 12, 2010 and check the issue status.

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_7-windows\_programs/windows-7-speech-recognition-is-not-working/49e1d4c9-4322-41bd-9a6c-026ab0587286

    Hope this helps. Please do let us know if you further help.

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