[Fraggulus]

Originally Posted by minsc_tdp

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Under Language, what is selected? Should be v8.0 German.
.What happens if you start the windows speech recognizer widget from control panel ... Which works?

Hi minsc,
yes, it is 8.0 German and it is working with the German commands. English commands are not recognized.

If so your German recognizer is working fine, it could be an umlaut/unicode/script problem, but before I dive into it I'd like to hear that the above is working right.

I'm not sure how I can test that without installing German Vista,

finally I got it working in large part. If I run 'python hear.py' words with umlauts are recognized. I guess I 'just' have to train my speech recognition one or two more times.

But I saw another failure. If I run 'sh4speech.bat' all commands are recognized except those with umlauts. The error message is as follows:

Phrase processed.  Waiting for a new phrase...
pythoncom error: Python error invoking COM method.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line 285, in _Invoke_
    return self._invoke_(dispid, lcid, wFlags, args)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line 290, in _invoke_
    return S_OK, -1, self._invokeex_(dispid, lcid, wFlags, args, None, None)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line 588, in _invokeex_
    return func(*args)
  File "hear.py", line 94, in OnRecognition
    print phrase
<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

The spoken command was 'nächste Einheit' and the used version of sh4speech was 1.51.

F.