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SpeakMediaPro 1.00.82 & SpeakMediaASR Manual

Upper Panel Buttons

 

Artists

• Shows available Artists
• Indicates the level that the Play modes operate at. For instance if play mode is in Loop mode it will loop through you're entire music collection once the mode is activated

Albums

• Shows the albums of the current Artist
• Indicates the level that the play modes operate at. For instance if play mode is in random mode it will randomly play a song from the albums in the Album list

Songs

• Shows the songs on the currently selected Album
• Indicates the level that the play modes operate at. For instance if play mode is in loop mode it will loop through the songs of the current album

Visualize

• Short tap or mouse over shows visualization window
• Press and hold switches to full screen
• Note Esc key or short tap of screen in full screen will restore to window

Settings

• Shows / hides the settings form
• Top color settings change the color at the top of SpeakMediaPro
• Bottom color changes the color at the bottom of SpeakMediaPro
• Back color changes the colors of the controls in the inactive state
• Active color changes the active color of the controls
• Font color changes the font color in the media lists and top buttons
• Tint changes the saturation of the color gradients of SpeakMediaPro
• Screen size enables you to set SpeakMediaPro to the desired dimensions

MP3

• Cycles through media modes
• Currenty MP3 and Video

Play mode

• Normal, play goes to end of the play list and stops
• Loop, loops through play list based on current play mode indicated by the highlight of Artists, Albums or Songs and set by the next or previous buttons
• Random, randomizes the play list indicated by the highlight of Artists, Albums or Songs and set by the next or previous buttons
• Note to change the play mode active level you need to either change the play list, by choosing a new selection or press the next or previous buttons in the desired level

Quit

• Close SpeakMediaPro

Middle Panel Buttons

Lists

• Click to select, view and browse
• Click and hold to play selection
• Clicking and holding Artists will cue up and play all the albums of the selected Artist
• Clicking and holding Albums will cue up the Album selected and play the first track
• Clicking and holding Songs will cue up the Album and play from the selected song

Visualization Window

• Clicking and holding any area of the visualization window will activate SpeakMediaASR
• Album art also activates SpeakMediaASR in the same way

Lower Panel Buttons

Left Dart Arrow / Previous Button

• Skips to the previous item based on the highlighted mode of Artists, Albums or Songs

Seek Dial

• Seek through songs backwards or forwards
• Each song is scaled to five rotations of the dial

Right Dart Arrow / Next button

• Skips to the next item based on the highlighted mode of Artists, Albums or Songs

Right Arrow / Play button

• Resumes play

Two vertical bars / Pause button

• Pause the playback

Square / Stop Button

• Stop playback

Volume Dial

• Dial volume 0 to 100
• Double click to Mute and Un mute

Up Arrow / Eject

• Dock or Show SpeakMediaPro
• Eject a CD or DVD

SpeakMediaASR Voice Commands

Activation of SpeakMediaPro ASR

To activate the ASR press and hold the appropriate key, button or surface for quarter of a second

keyboard

• F12 key

Mouse or Touch screen

• Any part of the visualization window including album art.

Full Screen

• Anywhere on the screen
• Note some 3rd party visualisations may block the activation in fullscreen mode, we're working to resolve this

When the ASR is activated the system will beep once, then issue your command.

Recognition State

Once the system beeps, it's waiting for a command. If your command is rejected for any reason the system will beep three times. Note, if your command isn't activated within a couple of seconds and you haven't heard a reject beep, reactivate the ASR and try again. Please see the ASR Primer Section for an explanation.

Commands

For example "Play Artist Foo Fighters" please note, you need to say it, as it appears on the lists! SpeakMediaASR is only designed to recognize speech input that conforms to English phonetics

"Play Artist [whoever] "

• Plays Named Artist

"Play Album [whatever]"

• Plays Named Album

"Play Song [whatever]"

• Plays Named song

"Play Movie [whatever]" or Play Video [whatever]

• Plays Named Movie

"Show Artists"

• Shows the artist list, if SpeakMediaPro is docked it will slide down

"Show Albums"

• "Shows albums list, if SpeakMediaPro is docked it will slide down

"Show Songs"

• Shows songs list , if SpeakMediaPro is docked it will slide out

"Show Movies"

• Shows Movie list , if SpeakMediaPro is docked it will slide out

"Get Artist [Whoever]"

• Navigates to and highlights selected Artist

"Visualize"

• Shows visualization window, if SpeakMediaPro is docked it will slide down

"Minimize" or "Hide"

• Docks SpeakMediaPro

"Full Screen"

• Goes to full screen

"Restore Screen"

• Restores to window

"Volume [0 - 100]"

• Sets the volume e.g."Volume 50" (as in fifty)

"Loop"

• Change to loop mode

"Random"

• Change to random mode

"Normal"

• Change to normal mode

"MP3"

• Change to MP3 mode

"Video"

• Change to Video mode

"Next"

• Selects next item depending on which list is highlighted and what play mode is active also locks in play mode

"Previous"

• Selects next item depending on which list highlighted and what play mode is active also locks in play mode
• For example in random mode
• Artists highlighted, Next will randomly choose from entire collection
• Albums highlighted, Next will randomly choose from the next album in the list
• Songs highlighted, next will randomly choose from current album songs
• Loop and Normal mode
• Artists highlighted, next artist cues up and plays first album and first song
• Albums highlighted, next album cues up and plays first song
• Songs highlighted, next song plays

"Forward [0 - 100]"

• Seeks to absolute position of track defined as a percentage of its duration

"Back [0 - 100]"

• Seeks to absolute position of track defined as a percentage of its duration

"Position [0 - 100]"

• Seeks to absolute position of track defined as a percentage of its duration

ASR Primer!

SpeakMediaASR is one of the best speech recognition engines available on the market today. As good as it is, it's still not infallible. The key to achieving consistent recognition, is simply to speak clearly at a normal rate, think of the news guy reading the news if that helps! Also if you can't hear the person next to you talking normally, then don't expect the ASR to recognize you either! SpeakMediaASR is noise robust and will operate in moderately noisy environments, such as in traffic.

Recognition State

In the case that the ASR rejects a command, it will beep three times to signal that it didn't hear you clearly enough and will adjust itself appropriately. In the event of a rejected command just reactivate the ASR and restate your command normally, don't yell at it. There are a number of reasons why a command may be rejected and it's often not the fault of the ASR engine. Trouble shooting is fairly easy.

• Make sure you're issuing a valid command
• Make sure your microphone is selected in the recording properties of the sound panel, by right clicking on the Speaker icon in the system tray then "Open volume control" followed by Options Menu, select Properties and select the Record option. Alternativley, press the Start button, look to the lower right, press run and type in "SndVol32" to open the sound manager then click Options followed by Properties and select the Recording option
• Make sure your microphone is working properly, either run sound recorder or make a Skype test call: its often the easiest way to check if your microphone is working
• If none of those solutions resolve the problem, you may need to seek technical assitance!

Microphones

SpeakMediaASR will operate with a broad range of inexpensive desktop and headset microphones, though higher accuracy will be achieved with headsets made for Speech Recognition. Just beacuse a microphone is expensive doesn't mean its good! Some microphones systems use software DSP which can actually make them perform worse in some instances. It's a good idea to check around for whats available. Please note SpeakMediaASR doesn't currently support the use of Bluetooth microphones.

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