Speech Recognition in doHOOPS

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Game time tip:
  Look at the caption at the top of window that pops up after you speak -- it will show you the player or action that doHOOPS is currently recording a stat for, based on what it's heard you say so far.

Technology:
  Laptops can be "noisier" internally than desktop computers, which sometimes can make software that uses voice recognition "hear" slightly less clearly.

  The difference is usually nearly unnoticeable, but it can useful to keep this in mind when you choose a new laptop, since models can vary in the amount of internal noise they produce.

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At game time, doHOOPS can just listen for player jersey numbers, actions, and button captions. For example: You can just say "12" and doHOOPS will ask you what player 12 did. Or you can say "steal" and doHOOPS will ask you who stole the ball.

You can speak to doHOOPS interchangeably with using your mouse (or touchscreen or track-pad) and using your keyboard. Like everything else about recording game actions, it's mix-and-match -- click, speak, or type any time, in any combination.

"Listening" can be turned on or off directly from the doHOOPS court at any time during the game.

Built-in practice features

doHOOPS gives you easy access to the microphone setup and speech training features that are included with the Speech Recognition engine it uses. And it offers a "Practice" window where you can practice the words doHOOPS listens for -- and watch as it recognizes your words and phrases.

What you need

A quality headset microphone is a must -- it doesn't need to be an expensive microphone, but it needs to handle speech recognition and noise filtering well. See system requirements and recommendations for additional requirements and suggestions.

For Windows Vista users:

Vista's voice recognition features "listen" to you first, before doHOOPS listens, during game time. This generally works out fine, but please be aware that Vista may interpret and handle certain words preemptively, before doHOOPS processes them.

Until a Vista-specific doHOOPS version is released, you can still use doHOOPS speech recognition on court, but you may not be able to run doHOOPS practice and training features, and Vista may supercede words such as "exit". (If you're not using doHOOPS Listening during a game, we recommend that you turn the Vista voice recognition feature off during game time.)