Speak now

Having problems with the speak now and want to try the previous default, but don't know where to change it. Having problems with speech recognition and want to try the the old way with no “speak now." Need to know if it my microphone that is not working properly.

Thanks

 Maxie

Hi Maxie,

My apologies for missing this forum post! Are you still having trouble with our speech recognition? 

Hi Margaret.

 Seems to be sorted. When I do numbers in German it is just awful, but probably something to do with pronunciation and intonation, so now just ignore it if I don't get a perfect score. So am quite happy and it is not an issue. 

Thanks for trying to sort it

Maxie

Ah yes, numbers! For some reason, the voice recognition software struggles with processing numbers, but it's something the IT team is aware of and is hopefully going to be able to fix sometime in the not-too-distant future. For now, continuing to ignore them is probably the best option, I'm sorry!

All the best with your language learning, Maxie!

I will say it is better than when I first bought the program (2 years ago?). When transcribing you can see it does so in the arabic numerals (1,2,3, etc) but when scoring, if I have no other mistakes it almost always gives me a 100% (and changes the numbers to spelled out).