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1. 50 OA sare ss sce ce UU UT T atoeess 52 E Le ME DI Profile MONAOGEMmMEnNtT EEN 53 N 54 FS SIS NG o MER 55 MEEN E J9 POCOS A na 56 APPENDICE lt 57 A SCO edun as N NI I INIT TIR 58 B Server e engl eu e 60 Ed lena 60 YOUMeScINde qc IS TORT 60 RUSH LS ws oN a S MeL Cara ale ce E rr re ere 61 ST CIE Ore OZ SO Rene ARR A 61 REENEN eebe ee 61 MC lla 62 GCS WS e TEE 62 CREARNE clic ro 62 EE e e EE 63 aWerelsejaoNia ieewie ne KiaoeeM Nm t T T m 63 Send a message without modifying TNE repeat string scceecssssssssceeccccccccccsseeeecsssssssssseesesesecssssseeeeeesnes 63 Poa lee ele m m a 63 Peline C 64 LOGICHE REGGE S O m uem 64 Change a Regular elle 64 ACNE Nara 64 Modify a paramenter in the vo CE ini file ii 64 Irena a eE o RR o RR A 65 Mserieuia Sefesetge eba5ie ie m m ai 65 eb 66 DI E ee E nee e e e EC 70 cC oet mme 2 os vo CE INTRODUCTION 1 1 Overview vo CE is the new voice picking software developed by ltworks srl for Windows CE Net operating system 4 2 or 5 0 With vo CE a WMS system working with normal hand held devices with a CE NET operating system can be easily and quickly equipped with automatic speech recognition ASR and text to speech TTS engines I2. 9 high B SERVER SIDE COMMANDS General syntax server can temporally substitute the settings for vo CE with the escapes sequences strings but in order to make a definitive changes server commands must be used Server commands syntactic is KEYWORD parameters text to speech The text to speech is optional vo CE adds a default text OK if it misses in the Grammar Switching command only A KEYWORD must be made of 5 characters Use blanks to complete it if it is shorter NOTE No text to speech can be inserted before a Server Command lm trying VOLUM 80 to use server commands ERROR VOLUM 80 I m trying to use server commands OK Volume setting command Syntactic VOLUMx It changes the speaking volume The parameter is an integer from O to 100 that indicates the volume s value 0 mute 100 highest volume Olm speaking with the default volume VOLUM 100 Now I m speaking with the highest volume This phrase has the same volume of the second vo CE will say the first phrase normally and the second and third ones with an higher volume WC vo CE Rate setting command Syntactic RATE x Changes the speaking rate level The parameter is an integer from O to 100 that indicates the rate As for VOLUM vo CE changes the value and after that says the text Olm speaking with the default velocity RATE 100 Now I m speaking fastest can This phrase has the same
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4. license number must be numeric and contain 39 characters vo CE BNF In the subsection BNF you can manage the grammar files that are present in the project folder Pressing the New icon e you can create a new default bnf file and the corresponding compiled file Icf you can also remove o the unwanted files Pressing Compile icon you can obtain the compiled file of the selected bnf Make sure you are connected to the Internet before you do it Clicking the Edit icon a you can edit the grammar file and save it using the corresponding button ke Sak AA mann eme eee Ingha K mon wae rommand siam nepeaniasigit gt 4 iogtioma OK cormremant nl Finally you can save a bnf file with a specific name by clicking the Save as icon B 4 3 INTERFACE As mentioned above Interface is a WMS prototype used to test the vo CE features in the WMS Server In the Server subsection the simulation of a WMS server is implemented You can start o and stop o the server and set the port which the server should listen to Stat g Bep LN Settings nds Server ojl Run Telnet Data Management le SCHECK lt text parameter gt DUN Netherlands CONF num parameter gt ENG England SECHO ENU American FILE text parameter gt FRF French SFILED text parameter gt GED German ITI Italian 9 17 11 Current language ITI Run Telnet
5. type error message minor option lt question gt vo CE performs a local check i e for the check digit without sending the data to the server To allow the best performance of the value recognition vo CE assigns a confidence boost to that value the boost is determined by the parameter BOOSTVALUE default 1000 value value to check type can be 0 User must say EXACLTY the value that is requested Parameters minor option and question are not necessary User can say a number that is smaller o equal to the value but if it is smaller than the value User must confirm that number vo CE will aks a question 2 User can say a number that is smaller o equal to the value no confirmation is needed error message is the message that will be sent by vo CE if the User says a wrong number vo CE minor option can be 0 ask confirmation with a question the User must reply with Yes or No ask confirmation with a question the User must repeat the number that has been just said question is the question asked by vo CE when type is 1 or 2 UNCHK syntax UNCHK Disable the previous CHECK command REGEX syntax REGEX lt regular expression gt loads the given regular expression regular expression is the regular expression that will be loaded by vo CE See chapter XXX REGEF syntax REGEF lt regular expression name gt loads a rege
6. the recognize quality threshold Each recognition is associated with a confidence value if it is lower than the threshold the command is rejected e HOST the server s IP address to which vo CE is connected e REMOTE PORT the server s remote port to which vo CE is connected e LOCAL PORT the local port used by vo CE for the connection e GetID press this button to see the Machine ID and to insert the license ELLEN vo CE e Recognized commands list recognized commands sorted by confidence value Only the commands with the highest confidence if higher than the threshold are accepted e Text to speech press SPEAK to make vo CE pronounce the text to speech inserted in the box Note that is very helpful to start the TTS engine and to have a fast working test e License state this field indicates if vo CE is licensed or not e State the recognition state of vo CE i e speech detected or waiting for speech e Condition this field indicates the recognition condition For example Signal too Loud means that the volume is too high and vo CE might have problems to recognize the commandi in the right way When starting vo CE the ASR engine is deactivated The configuration INI file has a specific threshold STRTED that can either allow or deny the ASR engine activity With STRTED 0 the ASR engine activity starts only with the server command START Note that it is still possible to manually start the ASR act
7. which must be repeated and the number of iteration is selected click Save Profile to save the project profile Training Start O Stop Settings Profle Management Semer rj Project Profile Select BNF files Choose Word List Set Number of iterations default_eng bnf Dee A lt d i gt gt una Save Fronte User Profile Select User User History ew User T Delete User Now you can define a user profile Clicking the New User button you can define a user ID with his name and surname Obviously pressing Delete User allows a user to remove the unwanted user profile In the User History section you can see the words that must be trained and those already learned Server his section simulates a server that allows you to simulate the communication between the server and vO CE to perform the training The server will listen to the port specified by the Settings button Manager Interface Log Stat a Bes Settings Profile Management r Project1 Compile BNF ME 12 31 49 Training ready vo CE 4 5 SUPERVISOR In this section you can send messages to the operator who is performing his task You also have the option fo save the voice samples in order to evaluate the input signal given to vo CE To use the Supervisor the control parameter in vo CE ini file has to be set to 1 and the terminal has to be connected to the server Messeng
8. Aclivate a new syntactic rule Syntactic RULE rule name gt To switch from one rule to another The value you can assign to this command is the rule name to enable Modifying a paramenter in the vo CE ini file Syntactic SSETPAname parameter value parameter It allows the execution of any parameter of the vo CE ini file while vo CE is working WCS vo CE The changes to the values of the parameters are valid while vo CE is working When it is started again the value of the parameter will be the one specified in the vo CE ini file Training session Syntactic TRAlBprofiletobeupdated profile name BNFname number of repetitions command command n N Using this command it is possible to create a user profile for specific commands command 1 command n The profile can be an update of an existing profile or a new one If you have to update an existing profile to be updated profile it needs to be replaced with the profile name to update otherwise you need to add the starting string In all cases the string has to specify the name of the new profile without showing the extension SPA the vocabulary name with the extension BNF the number of repetitions for each command a list of commands separated by The string always ends with a N REPEATING ALL THE PRONOUCED NUMBERS Syntactic SPELL When this command is sent the system will repeat all the numbers previously said to
9. Acquire section you have a database with the IP addresses of the terminals in operation and a short description Supervisor Scroll List Search B o 5250 Settings ea Play 192 168 20 1 192 168 20 2 192 168 20 3 192 168 20 4 192 168 20 5 Mario Rossi Jose Garcia Mohamed Madani Susan Brown Akuro Liang Press button to download Log file Download Press button to disconnect devices T Disconnect Communication Status Obviously you can add new items or remove them pressing the New or Delete Qo icons respectively When the desired terminal has been selected through the Mark Clear icon Or pressing Select All Deselect All in case you want to select all items you can press the button Download to start saving the log file containing the information on the activity that the operator is doing at that moment To stop the download you need fo simply press the Disconnect button The log file will be store at the following path Document Folder V vo CE Tools My vo CE installationsNLogNdevicelPAddressNday month year in this format devicelPAddress DayMonthYear hHourmMinute log 4 5 TRAINING You can determine the various words that you want to train with the help of two sections Profile Management and Server Profile Management First of all you have to create a profile for the curent project Once the file BNF the word that is present in the selected file
10. E x 2 cera Sle retort GM mama LA 0 mx Indirizzo hetp icense t works t User Def vi asp Eva colegamenti Google Ces g Sizbloccatofi 4 ortografia K re 9 A ous en tworks License site ec poem M ingegneria e sviluppo sistemi Welcome Pda E Operazione completata EMEN 1777 M Th Itworks License Site Microsoft Internet Explorer fornito da MAESTRO Fie Modifica Visualizza Preferi Strumenti H La 112 Y r1 T Quem O x 2 A 70m 7 ren Meme Ge E LJ B Indirizzo http license At works at User Download aspx Google Cea 3 Sr2bioccaton 485 Ortografia ps a License site TED n e Itworks sistemi Welcome Pda M Dowrload Files 2 Yo ce L I voc 7a PDA eue vo CE_DUN_1200 CAB 1 E vo cE_ENG_1200 CAB i cl vo CE_ENU_1200 CAB i voce FRF_1200 cA8 i LE vocE_GED_1200 CAB i vo CE_IMI1200 CAE L E vo Ce_SPE_1200 CAB VoiCE Kit 006 cab 3 31 0 0 7 E VorCEHRILOQ7 mxS cao LE WoiCE RI1007 mx6 cab 6 03 1 1 0 0 Df ve cab ie I VoCE 1103 ENG cab 7 VoCe_1101 cab gt a TT Rina Exploring the tree it is possible to check all the released versions of vo CE e PDA subdirectory it contains products developed for the devices e Win subdirectory it contains products developed for Personal Computers e DOC subdirectory if contains the vo CE documentation For each product there is a fol
11. Press Run Telnet to be connected connect to the determined port of the local machine where vo CE Interface is running This corresponds to the following telnet 127 0 0 1 24 command line from the command prompt where 24 is the local port previously set using the settings button SCONF Hoos D ELI ND SIATS Without vo CE software all picking orders together with the vocal strings are shown in the DOS Telnet session When the connection between the Telnet emulator and the WMS is filtered by vo CE you don t see the vocal strings on the screen of the mobile device because they are inside vo CE TAGS and so they the software application transforms them in speech output Run vo CE PC amp Telnet Pressing Run vo CE PC amp Telnet will start the telenet session and if installed on your PC it will start vo CE PC version Connect vo CE to the Interface To connect vo CE to the Interface you must 1 start the vo CE Interface 2 set vo CE to connect to the server where vo CE interface is running set parameters REMOTE HOST IP and REMOTE PORT 3 set Telnet emulator to connect to the same device on which vo CE is running note the default port for vo CE is not 23 as in Telnet but 1234 At the top of the server area you can see two windows The left one shows the commands that can be sent to the client They correspond to the commands stored in the Command table For each of these you can view information
12. by pressing the corresponding icon To send the command you need to click the command or the appropriate icon se and once the parameter is inserted if required press the submit button he right window displays the available languages You can change the language at any time during the simulation The window in the bottom shows the communications between the server and the client vo CE 4 4 LOG In this section you can analyze a log file recorded by vo CE You can also analyze the log files of an operator in real time while he is working or save it directly to disk EI Scroll List Search deng 5250 Open Log CL Simulation 5 E E Log Acquire r he Simulation and On Line subsections are two servers that work separately from each other They can t work together as the activation of one leads to the shutdown of the other The first one is a server that listens and waits for a connection from the device whereas the second one is vo CE Tools that starts a connection with the device Both can be configured by pressing Settings in the Clipboard subsection Local Port represents the port to which the Simulation server listens Remote IP and Remote Port represent the IP address and the port to which the On Line server should connect vo CE Tools os e e eee NETTES ecs A Local Port Remote IP 192 168 1 143 Open Log Clicking the Open Log you ca
13. is over and it is used together with the profile SPA file to the recognize different pronunciations DAT is a file containing the language phonemes User Profile Project With vo CE manager It is possible to create a different profile for each operator The information such as grammars vocabularies training data and so on can be checked and corrected from a User Profile Project Special commands are a useful set to create a sort of dynamic dialog between the operator and the vo CE software With their help it is possible to manage many operations increase the volume ask to repeat the last phrase mute the microphone etc Remapping words Usually when vo CE recognizes a command it sends it to the keyboard buffer However it is possible to modify the recognized commands before sending them to the keyboard buffer The remapping words function may be used to add an enter or a special key such as Fl or ESC to ask for a confirmation of the recognized command etc vo CE Escape string is a special sequence of setting characters used by TTS to modify vo CE parameters Regex is a contraction of Regular Expression Rule is a set of syntactic formalism in the vocabulary that determines what can be recognized by the engine
14. system The ASR engine allows to e encode vocal commands e setup a particular feedback when a specific command has been recognized e change the software default settings e download from FIP sites The TTS engine allows to e Select the speed rate and of the speech output volume e repet on operator request of the last phrase reproduced by the speech engine vo CE is a speaker independent software it means that it is able to recognize the voice commands of any user without associating the operator and with the speech engine However some particular logistic environments need a preliminary software customization in order to help the speaker recognition to do its best vo CE also requires a professional headset with the ambient noise cancellation function If the hand held devices provider doesn t have their own headset Itworks can suggest a highly performant one produced by a leading international group vo CE 1 3 Online configuration vo CE can be used as a standalone application or can be integrated in a existing application with the NET Software Development Kit VO CE software is a multi thread application running on Server ite mobile device only The first thread has the task to create a bridge from the emulation software to the server using two sockets the first Normal and translated vo CE commands one from the emulation software to vo CE device s IP local port the
15. the group special The file is constructed with the Backus Naur Form syntax The only rule to activate it is start Note that the character indicates or and the character indicates the end of an instruction vo CE Using regular expression you can control what is recognized by vo CE Normally the regular expressions are listed in the vo ce ini with a name and with the command REGEF to change to another regex That way makes vo CE faster and more reactive because to change a regular expression is way faster than to change a rule of the engine A regular expression often called a pattern is an expression that describes a set of strings They are usually used to give a concise description of a set without having to list all elements For example the set containing the three strings Handel Handel and Haendel can be described by the pattern H ae ndel or alternatively it is said that the pattern matches each of the three strings Normally if there is any regex that matches a particular set of strings then there is an infinite number of sUCh expressions Simple example of REGEX A d 1 2 OK z NEXT Explanation A beginning of a sentence Ad one digit 0 9 x y repetition of the previous character from x to y times Az end of a sentence OR clause So the previous REGEX will match any sentence that begins with one or two digits followed by OK or will match the word
16. the desired task Create new project To create a new project l Click the vo CE Tools button Select New Select Project Language Write Project Name Click the Create button a a a Pressing Create the desired folder will be generated in the specified location containing the files of the project default for example for the English language the default files are vo CE ini default eng bnf and default eng Icf The default directory of vo CE project is DocumentsNvo CE ToolsNMy vo CE installations vo CE Open an existing project To open an existing project l Click the vo CE Tools button 2 Select Open 3 Double click the desired vo CE ini file vo CE Edit vo CE ini parameters In the management section you can set vo CE parameters These are divided into groups which correspond the following subsections e Main e Grammar e Network e Language e Remapping e Regex e Licenses e BNF You can set the value of each characteristic Moving the mouse to the description you may notice the name of the ini file parameter which the field belongs to This section allows you to configure parameters for general characteristics vo CE Below there are the parameters that can be modified using the Main subsection Volume VOLUME is the soeech volume level NOTE this value can be changed by the user s commands or by the server commands Rate RATE is the soeed of
17. the operator C LICENSING SITE Visit the vo CE licence site to manage vo CE licences T Itworks License Site Microsoft Internet Explorer fornito da MAESTRO File Modifica isualzza Preferti Strumenti 7 Grew 2 dal Loro yr d O 2 ILE Indirizzo 83 hitp f license it works it E Collegamenti NI Google sl G cerca g i2bloccatofi f ortografia fed opzioni S laix amp Ingegneria e sviluppo sistemi Remember me next time g In FEE User Name Password Operazione completata Insert User name and Password and press Log in MEM I Itworks License Site Microsoft Internet Explorer fornito da MAESTRO Fie Modfca Visualizza Preferti Strumenti Grew Q a A G Pea Forre Qm BUE Indirizzo 4 http flicanse it works t User Defaut aspx Google CC Gens 39 amp zbocaoh Ortografia idopzioni I E va Colegamenti AE win GO Itworks Ingegneria e sviluppo sistemi License site Z operazione completata The Internet page shows you e ld the Client s ID e Cliente the Client s name EOD Mene Prodotto the software product you are licensing e DataAquisto the date and the hour of license purchase e Num Licenze number of purchased licenses e Rimaste number of the licenses that haven t been used yet Press Select to see the details of the used licenses or
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19. velocity of the second vo CE will say the first phrase normally and the second and third ones faster Start to recognize commands Syntactic START vo CE enables the ASR engine It will be disabled either when vo CE receives the STOP command or during the TTS process Stop to recognize commands Syntactic STOP vo CE disables the ASR engine It will be enabled when vo CE receives the START command This command may be useful for the server if it you need to stop the voice session and perform a different activity Perform a picking operation STOP Now perform an order confirm operation without using vo CE START Well done Restart the picking operation Grammar switching Syntactic FILE grm_name grm vo CE changes the grammar used The parameter is the grammar filename vo CE will look for this file in its starting path If it can t find it in that folder it will ask for it on the FTP site see Change setting for vo CE for more details about FTP sites After this command the new grammar will be loaded This command may be useful for associating grammars to different activities one for the picking one for the inventory and to load the right one when user switches from one activity to another Profile changing Syntactic FILESprofile_name spa vo CE changes the profile to use The parameter is the profile filename vO CE will look for this file in the flash memory vo CE path If it can
20. 797b5700 33050035014037032034049032037036037118 GEES BH HH HH HH H H 368c2581afd3fa 84127092035091084126126120094119117118 test licensed unlicensed Cyman d 5rn Dz 07 Release new license El Ze E wnee The page shows details of used licenses e Datarilascio Release Date e MachinelD the ID of the device on which the licensed vo CE software is running e License the license key e Stornata a flag to show the cancellation of the license e Nota note e Tipo HW hardware model e SerialNumber the serial number of the device Press Release new license to use one of the free purchased licenses Itworks License Site Microsoft Internet Explorer fornito da MAESTRO File Modifica Visualizza Preferiti Strumenti Q metro r O r x E A gt Cerca Se Preferi GA Multimedia dI d E LJ E Indirizzo amp http license it works it User release aspx valore 24 m vai collegamenti io Google DI G cerca Li SE E 2 bloccatoji Ale Ortografia ie Opzioni E Itworks License site Ingegneria e sviluppo sistemi Welcome Pda Release a new license MachineID 1566847E56543 Serial Number 1568947E585436 Tipo HW My device s hardware Nota This is an example Data Rilascio License Crea Licenza m m The information to be inserted in this page includes e MachinelD the ID of the device on which you want to run licensed vo CE e Serial
21. ANSW AREYES word vo CE accepts the command if they reply with the REPEATANSARENO word vo CE rejects the command MUTEONPHRASE o The text pronounced when the mute mode is activated It happens when the operator uses the command defined by MUTESTR parameter vo CE MUTEOFFPHRASE o the text pronounced to notify that it the mute mode is off It happens when the operator uses the command which is defined by MUTESTR parameter and vo CE is already mute MUTEOFFWARNING o this value is the speech output when the microphone is off If the operator continues speaking vo CE warns them that the microphone is off VOLUMEUPSTR o vo CE notifies with the speech output that volume has been increased VOLUMEDOWNSTR o VO CE notifies with this speech output that volume has been decreased RATEUPSIR o VO CE notifies with this phrase that speaking speed rate has been increased RATEDOWNSTR o VO CE notifies with this phrase that it speaking speed rate has been decreased BATTERYWARNING o VO CE notifies with this phrase that the battery charge level is lower than the threshold defined by BATTERYLEVEL parameter DISCONNECTSTR o vo CE notifies with this phrase that the device is not connected to the server WRMSTR o VO CE asks a confirmation for the warm boot In the field User all the commands that the user can send to vo CE are given mE vo CE Phrases and commands p
22. E default 1000 parameter e value value to check e lt type gt can be i 0 User must say EXACLTY the value Parameters minor option and question are not necessary i 1 User can say a number that is less or equal to the value but if is less than the value the User must confirm that number vo CE will say the question ii 2 User can say a number that is less or equal to the value no confirmation vo CE is needed e eror message the message that will be returned by vo CE if the User says a wrong number e minor option can be i 0 asking a confirmation with the question the User has to reply with Yes or NO i 1 asking a confirmation with the question the User has to repeat the number that has been just said e question is the question asked by vo CE when the type is 1 or 2 Disable the Check UNCHK syntax UNCHK disables the previous CHECK command Load a Regular Expression REGEX syntax REGEX lt regular expression gt loads the given regular expression e regular expression is the regular expression that will be loaded by vo CE See chapter XXX Change a Regular Expression REGEF syntax REGEF lt regular expression name gt loads a regex with the selected name e regular expression name is the name of the regular expression that will be activated that regular expression must be saved in the vo ce ini file under the section REGEX
23. NEXT vo CE Tools provides a section to create and try regular expressions ELE vo CE 1 7 New features The new release vo CE 3 5 has the new Nuance Vocon ASR engine v3 2 with improved performance new commands and features It makes use of the advantages of the first release of vo CE 2 0 in a new platform These are the features of vo CE 2 0 that have been rewritten and improved in vo CE 3 5 1 VOCEDLL DLL this library created in vb net 2008 is the main interface used by the software developers for their own applications in vb net and in c for compact framework Itworks is ready to share source codes and documentation for developers for further info please contact info it works it 2 Custom dll this is a plugin that can be created by the user in order to add some functions to vo CE exe printing rfid reading etc The functions are activated directly from the server with the command CUSTO oooooox 3 Device dll this library is specific for single device and it allows to enter on the server side with the command DEVICxXxxxxxx to some functions of the hardware keyboard blocking unblocking monitor switch on off 4 vo ce dll this library doesn t have a direct access but it contains the code that manages ASR TTS VOIP this part is written in evc4 in order to maintain the best performance vo CE There are a lot of new features included in the new release 1 Use of Regular Expressions In the
24. Number the serial number of the device e Tipo HW the device hardware model e Nota if necessary insert a note here e Press Crea Licenza to create a new license Itworks License Site Microsoft Internet Explorer fornito da MAESTRO 81 x File Modifica Visualizza Preferiti Strumenti ae Indietro x x 5B Ke po Cerca Se Preferiti S Multimedia e d E ina E Indirizzo http license it works it Userjrelease aspx valore 24 Vai Collegamenti Google DI G Cerca ge EX bloccatoji ARE Ortografia fea Opzioni ME Itworka License site il R N A6 Ingegneria e sviluppo sistemi Na cd PUES vers pity System Welcome Pda Release a new license MachineID 156B847E585432 Serial Number 156B847E585436 My device s hardware Tipo_HW Nota This is an example Data Rilascio 31 7 2006 License 023020027033030020026022023014028006085 Back DN Operazione completata a imi Pei D Internet The page shows the date of the release in the Data Rilascio field and your new license in the License field Press Back to return to the previous page D VO CE DOWNLOADING SITE In the page that follows the login there is a link to the download site on which it is possible to find all vo CE files E Itworks License Site Microsoft Internet Explorer fornito da MAESTRO 0 ax File Modifica Visualizza Preferti Strumenti amp r Q nwo
25. Save button the recording will stop at the next press of the button or when the file reaches the selected size To listen to the generated file you should simply transfer the file from the device to your PC Once the file is selected click the Open File button and play the file pressing the Listen button Clicking that file will not only make it play but will create a wav file which is more convenient to be used in the same folder APPENDICES A ESCAPES SEQUENCES STRINGS lt ESC gt is the TISESC character vo CE ini parameter Sequence Description Range Def Break lt ESC gt Put the sentence accent No lt ESC gt pause n Insert a pause n 21 2 32 NO lt ESC gt Mn Set the read mode n 0Q 3 2 Yes 0 character by character 1 word bt word 2 sentence by sentence 3 line by line lt ESC gt rate n Set the speech rate level n 0 100 50 No 10 slow 100 fast lt ESC gt rate_wom n Set the speech rate in words n O0 1000 NO per minute lt ESC gt tn s Guide text normalization s string address spell normal a vo CE lt ESC gt vol n Set the volume level n 0 100 80 No 0 silence 10 low 100 high lt ESC gt audio s Insert an audio file S string the filename URI No lt ESC gt Bn Insert a beep tone n 1 9 Yes O low 9 high lt ESC gt pitch n Set the pitch level n 0 9 No 0 silence 1 low
26. TTS NOTE this value can be changed by the user s commands or by the server commands Minimum Rate RATEMINLEVEL is the minimum speed of TTS NOTE this value can be changed by the user s commands or by the server commands Maximum Rate RATEMAXLEVEL is the maximum speed of TTS NOTE this value can be changed by the users command s or by the server commands Battery Level BATTERYLEVEL the battery charge level threshold expressed in percentage If the battery charge level is lower than that vo CE alerts the user with a warning message and repeats it every 576 of the battery loss HTTP HTTP indicates if vo CE uses the HTTP protocol Assign 1 as the value to indicate true O to indicate false AS400 EBCDIC indicates if vo CE uses the EBCDIC protocol Assign 1 as the value to indicate true 0 to indicate false Keyboard buffer KEYBBUF CNN vo CE it indicates if vo CE sends the recognized command or its encoding to the keyboard buffer Assign 1 as the value to indicate true O to indicate false Note this parameter has always to be True if VT5250 or HTTP protocols are used Full duplex FULLDUPLEX o dfsetto 1 enables the ASR even when the TTS is speaking Spelling number SPELLINGNUMBER o dfsetto 1 the TTS will say all the number as separate digits Landscape user interface LANDSCAPE vo CE control panel can be set horizontally Log to netw
27. audio buffers used for recognition vo CE Grammar Ve Vr A 8 Es rae Vo CE User Voip Training mrs gi Language CL Remapping C Regex _BNF r Confidence de WH 5000 Add special commands to regex Check enhancement e iT om No split stream Convert RULE change to REGEX change ASR automatically started at connection ASR database name ll Don t allow only number Context filename n Grammar you can set the parameters for the use of grammar Below there are the parameters that can be modified using the Grammar subsection Confidence CONFIDENCE o The confidence s threshold vo CE assigns a Confidence value to each recognized word if it is lower than threshold the command is rejected If you set a high Confidence value vo CE will only accept the commands pronounced in an extremely correct way If low Confidence value is set it will accept even commands with noise Check enhancement BONUSV ALUE o The bonus boost to the confidence related to a CHECK command ASR database name DATFILE o The database containing all the phonemes of a given language Context filename CONTEXTNAME vo CE o The name of the LCF file Starting rule STARTING RULE o The starting rule of the BMF file Starting regex STARTING REGEX o The regex that will be loaded at the start Add special commands to regex REGEXADDSPECIAL o Automatically add special words to every regex No spl
28. best case vo CE uses a regular expression to validate what is recognized by the ASR the ASR uses grammar only with a general RULE and then vo CE would validate what is recognized with a regular expression 2 New commands implemented a REGEX REGEF to change the regular expression b CHECK to validate check digits New recognition engines from Nuance Vocon 3 2 Use of compiled BNF for better performance Recording audio samples during normal activity of the device via vo CE Tools E SM ape UM Sending short messages to be pronounced by the TIS to the device via vo CE Tools It also maintains all the features of the older version with some improvements l New training procedures automatic and accurate 2 Unicode management the engine is Unicode this allows to manage correctly such languages as Russian already developed Changing the codepage 5250 for a correct localization of the software Changing all the existing parameters in the ini file directly from the server FULLDUPLEX it is possible to have the recognition activity during the TTS activity Pe I P ie BEEPWAV after the recognition activity the system can reproduce any Wav file in the vo CE folder of the device s flash memory instead of the system s beep In the configuration file vo CE ini the BEEP parameter must be set to a 1 value while in the BEEPWAV parameter you should set only the name of the Wav file as shown BEEP 1 BEEPWAV TestSnd Wav If the Wav f
29. cence from your licence pools please see appendix C to get a Demo Licence go to the DEMO licence site 2 2 Configuration Before starting vo CE some parameters have to be set such as the Server s address IP the remote port and the local port It is important to configure the Emulation Software to connect it to device address on the vo CE s local port It s recommended not to use the loopback address but the effective device s IP address See Change Setting for vo CE for more details on configuration You can also install vo CE in different languages on the same device executing the right cab file for the selected language To change the working language you must use the NWINIini name ini server command LN vo CE O CE 3 5 0 0 2 3 User Interfaces Host 472 4625 32 Local Port 1234 KEYBBUF 4s400 HrTP Figure 1 Figure 2 o To start vo CE double click on the rhomboid icon vo ce exe vo CE copies all files from flash memory Nvo CE flash memory is the name of the ROM storage memory into its starting folder The pictures above show the following objects e SHOW press this button to expand the windows view as show on Figure 2 e START start the ASR and TTS engines and socket e ASR start the recognition activity e STOP stop the recognition activity e QUIT quit e AS400 HTTP the protocol that is used e KEYBUFF indicates if key buffer option is used e CONFIDENCE
30. cond one is used to register voice samples on the client A user profile can be created without the Training application simply using a server command TRAIB for information on this command see the appendix D called Server commands A iraining session doesn t need that the user records each word but only the less confidence ones For a better training it is possible to perform more than one recording loop the application trainer will produce word samples for each loop During the creation of the trained grammar Training will merge the same word samples to optimize the training performances Training procedure gives better results if it is performed with a grammar based on a FULL DAT file see chapter 4 for more details User profiles dictionaries and trained grammar increase recognition confidence values and decrease mistakes In order to start the training session the users need to get the connection between the device and the Training that guides the users through the speech samples recording by scrolling the list of commands Once the training is over vo CE creates the user profile and the dictionary on the device in the working directory vo CE will also transfer the created user profile to the FIP site vo CE 1 6 Properly use of BNF rule and Regular Expressions With vo CE 3 5 it is possible to use a vocabulary BNF file for the Speech Recognition but it must be compiled into an LCF file to optim
31. der called Last with the last versions and a folder called Old with the previous ones Click a product name to download it 3 Itworks License Site Microsoft Internet Explorer fornito da MAESTRO a xl File Modifica Visualizza Preferiti Strumenti a o Indietro ix a A pe Cerca Se Preferiti S Multimedia e E LJ E Indirizzo e http license it works it User Download aspx DI Vai Collegamenti Google Giceca g E 2bloccatoji 8 ortografia Eg Opzioni Itworks License site Ingegneria e sviluppo sistemi Welcome Pda S 4 Download Files amp C3 vo ce La E poc PDA e Last i EE vo CE DUN 1200 CAB vo CE_ENG_1200 CAB i pe E vo CE_ENU_1200 CAB i he E vo CE_FRF_1200 CAB vo CE_GED_1200 CAB vo CE_ITI_1200 CAB vo Ce_SPE_1200 CAB GEO GOO1L08e i LEI YoICE iti1006 cab 1 0 0 7 i E VoiCE it11007 mx5 cab i 2 VoiCE iti1007 mx6 cab E 1 1 0 0 b E voCe cab EI VoCE 1103 ENG cab i pE VoCe 1101 cab H e TT vm n E GLOSSARY The list below is the glossary of the manual Vocabulary is a BNF file containing a list of licensed words and syntactic rules Grammar is an LCF file This file is used from vo CE and fixes licensed words syntactic rules and the way of speaking This file is created from a vocabulary Dictionary is a DCT file This file is created by vo CE once the training session
32. er In this subsection you do have a database with the IP addresses of terminals in operation and a short description Manager og D i D H 1 i D i Messenger 7 Audio Samples 3 Message 192 168 20 1 Mario Rossi 192 168 20 2 Jose Garcia 192 168 20 3 Mohamed Madani 192 168 20 4 Susan Brown OH M 192 168 20 5 Akuro Liang You can add new items or remove them pressing the New or Delete o icons respectively When the desired terminal is selected with the icon Mark Clear or pressing Select All Deselect All in case you want to select all terminals you can press the Send Message button and the message contained in the text field will be sent to the selected terminals Audio Samples In this section the same IP addresses illustrated in the previous section are available As you it can be seen from the screenshot below you can send a special command to vo CE to save the audio file containing the words spoken by the operator on the device O ICE ENTE z 192 168 20 1 192 168 20 2 192 168 20 3 192 168 20 4 192 168 20 5 Mario Rossi Jose Garcia Mohamed Madani Susan Brown Akuro Liang Save Acoustic Samples Dimension Kb Save Communication Status Listen Acoustic Samples pen File The field Dimension represents the maximum size Kb of the file Path is the path of the terminal where the file should be saved Once you press the
33. erformed by the user ES Eee ASS EE Uu lt d E EIS SCP WILLS Largus co 8 7 ee NEAN WHATCANISAY o when the operator pronounces this phrase he can listen to all the set commands VOLUMEUPCOMMAND o a special command to increase the volume VOLUMEDOWNCOMMAND o a special command to decrease the volume RATEUPCOMMAND o a special command to increase the speaking rate level RATEDOWNCOMMAND o a special command to decrease the speaking rate level MUTESTR o a special command to switch vo CE to the mute state or reset it to the normal state if it is already mute vo CE REPEATSTR o a special command to ask vo CE to repeat the last speech output REPEATANSWERYES o The word to confirm a request i e YES in English REPEATANSWERNO o The word to deny a request i e NO in English MICSTRON o aspecial command to activate the microphone MICSTROFF o a special command to disable the microphone WRMCMD o a special command that activates the warm boot program WRMCMDASK o question to confirm the warm boot command In the Training there are also some phrases pronounced by vo CE during the execution of training zy o ae orca cea Phrases and commands performed by the vo CE TRAININGSTART o the text of this parameter is pronounced at the beginning of the training session TRAININGSAYWORD o the text of this parameter is pronounced from the
34. ified for this parameter Usually the file search is used to upload grammar or profiles Ftp user login FTPUSR o Indicates the user name for the FIP login Fto password login FTPPWD o Indicates the password for the FIP login Enable shadow user SHADOW o If this value of the mobile device on which vo CE is already running is 1 it is possible to connect another terminal to the first one using the LOCALPORT 1 port The second terminal will receive the same commands and answers of the first terminal SHADOW must be also set to 1 in the second terminal Enable second socket CONTROL o Enable a control socket for supervisor activities Autoconnect AUTOCONNECT o Enable the socket auto connect vo CE Language ve Tot CT ES LE le aia a pr C al WANING MICOS RAISED SOUND Lt gt D SOUND RATE INCREASED HATE DELCHEASEI WARNING BATTERY LOW stteetion terminal disconnected GETT In the Language section all the phrases related to communication between vo CE and the user and vice versa are defined In subsection vo CE all the sentences spoken by vo CE are expressed Phrases and commands performed by vo CE VOCESTARTED o The value of this parameter is the speech output of the vo CE starting session CONFIRMPHRASE o the text that is pronounced when vo CE asks for a confirmation a 9 added to the command in the Remapping subsection If the user replies with a REPEAT
35. ile name is omitted the system will perform the standard beep after the speech recognition is performed PRYORITY It is possible to set the application thread priority to optimize operations By default this value is set to the maximum value 150 8 REMAPFIRSTMATCH If this parameter has the value of 1 the word is remapped only the first time it occurs in the sentence mn vo CE The system is also organized to have FineTuning to modify the parameters of the recognition engine in order to optimize the performances 2 HOW IT WORKS 2 1 Setting up vo CE is delivered in a ZIP file Example vo CE ITI 3500 zip In order to install vo CE you need to extract the zip file and copy the folder vo CE in the flash directory of the device for example via Active Sync or FIP Note if the device has a Flash memory and you want to install vo CE in a different path you need to create a vo CE directory in the Flash memory with the following files vo CE ini grammars and BMF files If the device doesn t have the Flash memory you need to install vo CE in the main root Create a shortcut icon linked to the vo CE exe file in the path flash memory speech Ncomponents and copy the icon on the desktop To start vo CE double click the shortcut icon linked to the vo CE exe file At the first start you will get a text box ERROR LICENSING as you need to have a valid Licence in order to start working with vo CE In order to get a li
36. it stream NOSPLITSTREAM o The text stream to the emulator will not be split Convert a RULE change to a REGEX change RULETOREGEX o Enables the compatibility mode so every RULE command is transformed into REGEF command ASR automatically started at the connection STRTED o If the value is set to O you must send the server command START to start vo CE Don t allow only number DONTALLOWONLYNUMBER o Number pronounced won t be recognized vo CE Network wm EE Tools C Ala Win o via reg 192 1531 2 btp server addres 192 163 13 Network contains parameters that serve to manage the connection with the server and to enable other network functions Below there are the parameters that can be modified using the Network subsection Host address IP o The IP address of the Server Remote port REPORT o The port which the server is listening to Socket timeout TIMEOUT o When you set this parameter you define how much time how many seconds vo CE needs to restart after a wi fi connection failure Local port LOPORT o The port used by vo CE RSC vo CE Unicode codepage CODEPAGE o The Unicode codepage Ebcdic codepage E2ATABLE o The ebcdic codepage Ftp server address FTPADDR o After a special command of changing grammar or profile server command FILE lt grammar name gt vo CE will search the files at the IP address of the FTP server spec
37. ivity by pressing CLOSE START ASR in sequence With STRTED21 the ASR engine activity starts manually by pressing CLOSE START ASR in sequence or automatically when the emulation software tries to connect to vo CE After the launch of the vo CE application it is possible to start the emulation software Configure it at the device s IP address vo CE local port vo CE will run in background during the working session vo CE 3 DIFFERENCES FROM THE VERSION 2 3 3 1 Workflow differences There are some differences between the 2 3 version of vo CE and the 3 5 version Use of regular expression The best way to use vo CE is to implement a general RULE and use regular expressions to validate what is recognized according to your needs But it is still possible to use the command RULE to change the RULE of the engine as in vo CE 2 3 There is another feature called Compatibility Mode which means that you can use the efficiency of regular expressions without changing anything on the server side if the parameter RULETOREGEX is set for every command the RULE sent to voce will be considered as a change regex command REGEF and a regular expression named as the RULE will be loaded These options are included into every version starting from vo CE 3 0 Use of compiled BNF vo CE 3 5 uses compiled BNF files LCF files that are compiled by vo CE Tools or by our dedicated site 3 2 New commands CHECK syntax CHECK lt value gt
38. ize the performance vo CE 2 0 could only use the BNF file and vo CE 1 3 could only use a grammar file vo CE ini file has a new parameter that allows the use of LCF file CONTEXTNAME lt the name of the LCF file gt A BNF file can be compiled by vo CE Tools or by a web application Vocegrammar Grammar Creation Form Select Language Dutch The Netherlands Load BNF File Create Grammar The web application to compile the BNF choose the language of your BNF upload it and compile it The best way to set up vo CE is to use a BNF rule that is as general as possible and several regular expressions As example we ll use the standard BNF for British English BNF EM V1 0 Igrammar VOCE language British English Istart start start repeat DIGIT 1 4 optional OK command special DICI 1 2 3 4 Es 6 7 8 9 0 command OK CONFIRM DELETE CANCEL NEXT BACK SKIP END lt special gt RAISEUP RAISEDOWN ACCELERATE SLOWDOWN YR NO MICROPHONE REPEAT DICTIONARY ACTIVATE DISABLE An example of a BNF file Using this BNF file the engine is able to recognize numbers from 0 to 9999 followed by a confirmation usually but not always by the word OK the directive repeat X Y Z means that the group of words X can be repeated from Y to Z times or can recognize the words contained in the group command and in
39. n choose the file you want to have a look at If the file has been recorde with AS400 you need to enable the 5250 icon in the Clipboard before opening the file Interface Training Supervisor Project 1 Project2 Once you open the file you can go to a desired line or search for a particular word by their respective text fields in the Clipboard subsection Simulation This model allows to send commands of the log file from the server to a device thus simulating the activity that has been previously carried out with a possibility to observe the operations of the device Once you open the log file click the Simulation When the terminal connects to the Interface the connection is established To send messages to the device press the button Play J in the Clipboard subsection It will automatically find the first line of the log file generated by the server and sent the command to the device To move forward you should simply press the Play button and the cursor will automatically go to the next server row you can also search and select it with the mouse Closing the client or clicking the Simulation the server stops listening Pressing again the Simulation button the server goes on listening The On Line server is deactivated Listening Connected Disconnected On Line Pressing On Line button vo CE Tools will try to establish a connection with the device shown in the Setti
40. ngs Manager Interface Scroll List Search A D 5250 Settings d Go to Line ea Play _Open Log r Clipboard CL Log Acquire r If the parameter TCPLOG in vo CE ini of the device is active and therefore different from 0 vo CE will accept the connection and you will see in real time the log of the operator s activity in the log window of vo CE Tools Manager Interface Log Training Supervisor s ial Save tI SEN Search 28 js mee 5250 Settings 7 4 Go to Line ea Play Open Log T Clipboard CL Log Acquire r Line Direction Time ASCII 9 Server 2007 01 01 15 31 14 2J 1 1H 1 0HPRELEVARE 5 PEZZI 2 0HDI T3 0HITEM 1 4 0H 5 0H 6 0H 7 0H 8 0H 9 0H Server 2007 01 01 15 31 14 2J 7 Client 2007 01 01 15 31 14 6 Client 2007 01 01 15 31 14 6 5 Client 2007 01 01 15 31 13 DN Server 2007 01 01 15 31 09 2J 1 1H 1 0HDIRIGERSI 2 0HALL UBICAZIONE 3 0HL36 4 0H 5 0H 6 0H 7 0H 8 0H 9 01 Server 2007 01 01 15 31 09 ur Client 2007 01 01 15 31 09 Client 2007 01 01 15 31 08 1 vo CE You can clear the window using the button Clear in any moment while the Save button allows you to save all that is currently visible in the window he disconnection can be performed on the client side or simply pressing the button On Line ES Search 9 P m Go to Li IC TEES NETTETTMES e e GL Log Acquire r Log Acquire In the Log
41. o the result is OK CONTINUE with REMAPFIRSTMATCH set to 1 vo CE will only remap NEXT to OK GO Stop recognizing after the first result RECOGNIZEONLYFIRSTUTTERANCE O Recognize only the first word in the audio buffer vo CE Automatically add ENTER after each result AUTOENTER o it indicates if vo CE has to add ENTER to each recognized command before resending it Assign 1 as value to indicate true 0 to indicate false Beep BEEP o it indicates if vo CE has to make a beep when recognizes a command Assign 1 as value to indicate true O fo indicate false Beep file BEEPWAV o The wav file that will be used for the beep sound Word From to insert the word to remap Word To to insert the remapped word Checking the respective icon Insert soecial key H to choose if add autoenter ask to confirm or a no enter character as it was explained previously to the remapped word You can also add a no printable key which will be showed on the field by an understandable code between round brackets Word From New icon adds the new parameter to the file vo CE ini Using Delete icon o it is possible to delete one or more remapped words In case the text is changed a warning icon e appears next to the item under consideration E cci iai irta Word From Weed lo E Stop remapping at first matoh ADDENTIN B Stoo nw ognize DT CONFIRM ADOENTE E Automaticall
42. ork TCPLOG o Ifset to 1 enables the remote logging Log to disk LOGTOFILE o dfsetto 1 enables the feature of saving the a log file on the device Language TLW o The language of the vo CE setup Starting tag STARTSPEAK the string that makes vo CE say the words that come afterwards until it the ending tag Ending tag STOPSPEAK the string That makes vo CE stop speaking Esc for TIS remapping TTSESC a special character sent from the Server to vo CE to introduce a TTS command such as a rate changing i e If TISESC is S then the command to change the volume will be vol 90 Auto start program SHELLPROGRAM ELLEN vo CE o linking a path to the file on the device to this parameter the application will start automatically starting vo CE Auto start parameter SHELLPARAMETER o with this parameter it is possible if requested to transfer parameters and values to the application started with the auto start path Reboot program WRMPROGRAM o The device related program for warmboot Reboot parameter WRMPARAMETER o he parameter for the warmboot program Timeout TIMEOUT o Timeout in minutes for the disconnection Disconnect Warning Repeat Interval DISCONNECT REPEAT TIME o The interval in seconds which the disconnect message is repeated with Num of Buffer NUMOFBUFFER o An advanced parameter that shouldn t be changed If means the number of
43. second from vo CE to the server server s IP Normal commands Comman and text to speech remote port Normal commands When the connections are on vo CE begins to analyze all the data streaming between the server and the emulation software looking for vo CE TAGs vo CE TAGs are common strings between two sequences of characters They contain text to speech or setting commands e g speech rate level speech volume tone etc Text to speech The second thread recognizes vocal commands encodes them and sends them to the keyboard buffer Application logic Translated vo CE commands vO CE is constructed as a NET DLL that can be embedded in any NET application that works on a device This permits to use every vo CE feature in a custom application and allows full flexibility of its use vo CE comes with a complete SDK documentation 1 5 Ihe speech mode vo CE software is powered by Nuance engines that can be used either in speech independent or dependent mode The independent one allows the operator to start using vo CE without any additional activities and is the best and the fastest way to use vo CE However if the speech dependent mode is chosen the performance is not reduced In fact vo CE Tools suite contains some applications to customize the ASR engine The first one is the Training application of vo CE Tools which is able to process the files recorded by the vo CE trainer the se
44. system when asking for the command repeating TRAININGPLEASEREPEAT o the text of this parameter is pronounced by the system when there is a misunderstanding between the word pronounced and the one the system is expecting TRAININGEND o the text of this parameter is pronounced when the command training is completed TRAININGENDWORD o the command of this parameter is pronounced when the training session is completed Note the system needs to remap this word and add an ENTER vo CE Remapping In the section Remapping you can redefine a word using special characters l e in the picture below the word OK is remapped as ADDENTER which means that instead of the character O and K the character ENTER will be sent to the keyboard buffer Another example is the word CANCEL that is remapped as the character CANCEL ASKCONFIRM which means that the character CANCEL will be sent to the keyboard buffet only in case a confirmation is required by vo CE Below there are the parameters that can be modified using the Remapping subsection Stop remapping at first match REMAPFIRSTMATCH O Normally vo CE tries to remap every word that it gets from the engine enabling the vo CE remap only one time For example if you have the word NEXT remapped to OK GO and the word GO remapped to CONTINUE when the user says NEXT vo CE first remaps it to OK GO and then GO will be remapped to CONTINUE s
45. t find it in this folder it will look for it on the FIP site see Change setting for vo CE for more details about FIP sites After this command the new profile will be loaded vo CE ini file changing Syntactic NWINIini name ini vo CE changes the ini file The value of this parameter is the ini file name to use vo CE will look for it in its starting folder NOTE if you have installed different languages on the same device use NWINIini name ini server command to switch to a new ini file which include a new language configuration CE vo CE Quit vo CE Syntactic QUIT To close vo CE No value is required to execute this server command Confidence threshold changing Syntactic CONF 4500 To modify the confidence threshold Send a message without modifying the repeat string Syntactic ECHO To send a message to the operator without overwriting the last assignment received from the WMS Define a value for this command according to the message text When the operator has received the message he can listen to the last assignment again Check command CHECK syntax CHECK lt value gt type error message minor option question vo CE performs a local check i e for the check digit without sending the data to the server To allow the recognition of the value perform at its best vo CE assigns a confidence boost to that value the boost is determined by the BOOSTVALU
46. tworks after a careful software selection has chosen Nuance speech engines to power its vo CE software Nuance is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world vo CE doesn t need proprietary hardware This means that potentially each NET device is vo CE ready or at least vo CE compatible In fact one of the main important distinctive features of vo CE software application is the synergy of different technologies of data capture laser scanning barcode rfid imager data entry with keyboard and voice vo CE has been designed and engineered in order to be immediately integrated into WMS or ERP systems without any additional middleware software however if required by the IT Department vo CE is compatible with a middleware application Also logistics operators recognize vo CE one of the most user friendly and efficient tools to manage warehousing procedures They are able to continue working in the way they were used to improving efficiency very quickly 1 1 1 vo CE PC version All instructions and procedures in this manual are related to vo CE for CE devices but they are also absolutely valid for vo CE for PC 1 2 Software features vo CE software is powered by two Nuance speech engines the TTS and the ASR Together with vo CE application the user gets the vo CE Tools software which was designed by Itworks to configure and optimize the performance of the voice
47. x with the selected name regular expression name is the name of the regular expression that will be activated that regular expression must be included into the vo ce ini file under the section REGEX vo CE 4 VO CE TOOLS 4 1 Software overview This software is designed not only for vo CE parameters configuration it is also a practical tool for interacting with the device during the operator s activities It is divided into five applications e Manager e Interface e log e Training e Supervisor e Manager allows you to set all the parameters that will be used by vo CE for its operation It also allows you to define the grammar and create the compiled file e Interface is a WMS prototype to test the vo CE features in the WMS Using Interface you can appreciate the performance of voice picking without modifying the current WMS e The Log application allows you to analyze the log file created by the device It also allows to Observe in real time the log created during the activity or save it directly to disk e n the Training application you can define a project profile and specify the words to be trained by a given operator und vo CE e Supervisor allows you to send messages to the operator during his work and also enables the device to save voice samples 4 2 Manager In the Manager application you can open or create a vo CE project Press the vo CE Tools button and choose
48. y add INTER after onct CANCELLI ASH inn DELETE ASECONFIRM SACK ADONTE SKiP ADDENTER ENDL ATIOENTER WO ADDENTER T ADOENTER To confirm the change press enter and the confirmation icon 9 will replace the warning one confirming that the element has been stored Stream Nae la SC ee oe a a RS 40735 WI Ae Wurd Feum Word Po E Stop remapping at first matri ADDENTER E Stop recogrive after first result CONS IHM ADOENTER Automatically add ENTER alter cach result CANCEL ASHOCONFIFAN DELETE ASINI BACKIADOENTE SKIP ADOENTER ENDECAUDLUOENTER NO ADDENTER XTCADNDCNTTR SO ADOENTER vo CE Regex In the section Regex contains the regular expressions included in the vo CE ini Lk E e li wi i c t ETTE NIE ce ae You can add and delete o some regular expressions and you can also test them If you click the Test icon Sc By eee We AZZ ET 477 759 ae ee eae Here WM E 1 01yv 0x CONFIBA DELETE CANCEL MET 4 CX OP fO VO A As in The previous subsection when you edit an element a warning icon e appears next to the item under consideration To confirm the change press enter and a confirmation icon 3 will replace the warning one confirming the storage element Licences The Licences subsection contains the license numbers included into the vo CE ini You can add e and remove o some of the license numbers clicking the appropriate icons The
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