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Voice LookUp User's Guide

1. like this A LookUp Bad Pronunciations Some names have bad rule generated pronunciations Inspect Create new ones Yes Pron Dialog Na LookUp Cancel gt LookUp stop When you installed LookUp your Pocket Outlook database was scanned for names Most of the names were found in our large dictionary of pronunciations but some names Voice LookUp User s Guide page 17 were not found For these names pronunciations were machine generated from spelling to pronunciation rules Unfortunately these rules are inadequate Proper names are particularly bad candidates for automatic pronunciation guessing Typically people s last names are from many different nationalities and follow approximately the pronunciations of the different nationalities Pronunciation rules can not guess all of them correctly The machine generated pronunciation are marked as suspect and the above dialog is an invitation to inspect and change them You may skip this step for now and go straight to using LookUp by tapping No LookUp may have difficulty recognizing some names in your contacts list until you edit their pronunciations but that need not stop you now Jump in start using LookUp You will prompted with this Bad Pronunciations query each time you launch LookUp until you either inspect edit and accept the machine generated pronunciations or you have disabled it Disable it by checking the checkbox in the Options dialog or
2. Look up Elizabeth Burton Look up Richard Taylor Look up Elizabeth and Richard Taylor Look up Elizabeth and Richard Burton Look up Elizabeth Taylor and Burton Look up Richard Taylor and Burton Look up Elizabeth and Richard Taylor and Burton The amp generates a few extra phrases but hey you don t have to say them Delete a contact use with caution Find the contact you want to delete in the main LookUp screen Tap delEntry The following confirmation box appears Voice LookUp User s Guide page 35 Delete the Entry Last chance OK deletes it e Tap OK to delete the contact or e Tap Cancel to change your mind If you tap OK the entry will be deleted from the database when you exit Voice LookUp Warning If you delete a contact from your PDA s database it may disappear from computers with which you sync as well Names of businesses A convenient way to enter the names of businesses is use the firstName field for the name of the business and the lastName field for the kind of business For example firstName Delta lastName Airlines firstName United lastName Airlines and so on Now you can say Look up airlines and get a list of all the airlines you use Similarly you might use Car Rental For example firstName Hertz lastName Car Rental firstName Avis lastName Car Rental firstName Alamo lastName Car Rental Use the voice keyboard If
3. By the way words can have multiple pronunciations For example in ggdict voc exit has two pronunciations eks t and egz t Pronunciations in the voc file are not exactly the same as those displayed in the program The program display is intended to be more human readable than those in the voc files The differences are I gt oE OW gt L gt l L gt L m gt M n gt N RR gt P TH gt T DH gt D SH gt S CH gt C ZH gt Z Now that you are familiar with phones take a look at some interesting cases The A phoneme is really a blend of e then E Many words you may think have long A followed by an r sound don t have a long A An example is the word air You might be tempted to write its pronunciation as Ar but the correct pronunciation is er Compare the A sound in day gt dA to the e sound in air gt er Another example where and air rhyme weigher one who weighs and air don t Voice LookUp User s Guide page 50 where gt wer weigher gt wAR Similarly the long E followed by an r almost never is long E Consider the phrase he or she and contract it to he r she Compare the he r to here or even more telling to hero he r gt hER here gt hir hero gt hirOw So watch your r s They are among the trickiest If things aren t exactly right don t worry there is a lot of slop in the system The phoneme symbols have some semi understandabl
4. John Henry where reminder none note skejUL mEti schedule a meeting schedule a dinner Tap the mic on and state the day the start time and the finish time For example e Tomorrow 10 to 11 30 e Thursday 12 to 2 Meaning the next Thursday on the calendar e July 8 6 to 8 45 The general command is of the form day time to time day is one of today tomorrow a day of the week or a date A date consists of a month and a number of the form 15 24 3 4 20 31 time is a number 1 thru 12 optionally followed by 15 30 45 optionally followed by a m or p m Note this command is one of the most challenging recognition tasks in Voice LookUp and will require voice training similar to that used for the pronunciation of contacts Use the Train button on successful recognitions and corrected recognitions and soon you will get reliable results With relatively untrained model it is possible that the exact phrase you said is not on the choice list To train the phrase select the closest choice from the choice list Then in the top part of the form you can correct either the start date the start time or the end time to agree with what you said If you correct the appropriate piece of data a new choice list will appear which should contain the phrase you said Make sure it is selected and hit train Voice LookUp User s Guide page 28 To complete this discussion we will walk t
5. choice You can disable enable the echoing in the options dialog or with the voice commands Echo On and Echo Off Voice LookUp User s Guide page 13 A LookUp R look up john smith look up john henry If the name you said isn t at the top of the list look down the list If you find the correct name tap it with your stylus The correct contact information should appear in the top of the screen Toward the bottom of the screen to the right of the train button you will see a phonetic spelling of the syllables you spoke as LookUp heard them You can tap the phonetic spelling and the speech synthesizer will play it Once you are satisfied that you have selected the phrase you actually said tap the train button The button changes to read trained The next time you try this name it should be the top choice in the list Try another name and train it Repeat the same operation with a different name from the demo list or from your own contacts list if that 1s the list selected under Options Each time you come up with the correct contact whether LookUp finds it on the first try or you select it from a list tap the train button Only tap the train button once per utterance however Caution do not tap train if you mispronounced the name or if background noises interfered with a clean voice signal By training each successful or assisted recognition of a name you gradually build a more complete and accura
6. if you have reassigned it as described above You can also launch the program by using the Start menu and selecting Programs and then LookUp Depending on the speed of your PDA there might be a short delay before the program screen appears If you are running Voice LookUp for the first time you will be brought automatically to the Options screen Options First select the User File you wish to use In most cases this will be default usr However if you have created a User File with a different name you can select that from the dropdown menu Second select the Contacts file you wish to use You can choose demo t sv or outlook tsv We recommend that you start with demo t sv for your initial use of Voice LookUp Tap OK or press the external mic button to exit the Options screen The demo database The demo file contains a list of names which represent a wide variety of sounds phonemes that LookUp already knows By starting with this file you increase the likelihood of early recognition accuracy At the same time you will be further training LookUp to the sound of your voice Refer to Appendix A at the end of this guide for a list of names in the demo database You may want to print the list for easy reference Try Voice LookUp with any or all of these names If you already have your own contacts database such as Pocket Outlook you can use that However if you do so without first using the demo database it might
7. Features Voice LookUp allows you to use voice commands to perform several very useful tasks with just one hand to tap the mic switch Most of the following are things you can do after you have found the contact you want Dial a phone number Call home work etc Suppose you have looked up a contact that you want to call on your phone LookUp can either read the number out load generate tones to dial a touch tone phone or dial the embedded cell phone One way to do this is to tap the phone number that appears in the contact list For the same result by voice do the following Tap the mic and say Call home or Call work depending on whether you want to call that person s home or work number If the contact database contains the number you asked for LookUp displays a countdown screen which gives you time to abort the call if recognition was imperfect or time to place the speaker of your PDA near the mouthpiece if your phone if you are dialing using tones A LookUp Jhenry Steeldriver Com 18 Rail Rd Erie Pa 16501 countDown w 5 Dial 555 123 5678 tones Q voice cell meum TEE saveUser At the end of the countdown LookUp plays the appropriate output touch tone beeps if tones currently selected radio button thus dialing the number for you Note that playing tones into the mouthpiece of a phone only works with standard touch tone phones not with cell phones While the countdown d
8. LookUp got something wrong earlier you can tap the relevant button and change its contents by picking another selection from the choice list You can also repeat an utterance to replace an incorrect utterance Turn the mic on tap the relevant letter button say the correction A few other observations about the voice keyboard e You must say Zero for the number 0 e There is no spacebar say Underscore to insert a space e There is no shift capitalization method Everything you type will be reformatted with standard capitalization Voice LookUp User s Guide page 46 Prune Thresh Prune Threshold determines how aggressively LookUp discards unlikely matches Most users will not need to change this setting from its default value However if you have a very large contacts database and you experience time delays between your speaking a phrase and LookUp s returning a choice try lowering the Prune Thresh value to 180 If your models are well trained for accuracy this may produce faster response without loss of accuracy Try different settings to see what gives the best results Here s how it works While you are speaking the recognizer is scoring hypotheses of what it thinks you might have said At any given time there is a hypothesis with the best score and others that are scoring more poorly If a hypothesis is scoring very badly relative to the top scorer it is probably wrong and it is pruned discarded If the recognizer i
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10. the following method has 60 effect So use with caution First make sure that the pronunciation is correct In the main LookUp screen tap Find it to locate the contact Tap OK to return to the main screen Tap editEntry then OK to go to the pronunciation screen Tap the existing pronunciation in the second box on the left and press the playPron button If the pronunciation needs to be changed or an alternate pronunciation needs to be added Tap the mic on and say the name Select the pronunciation that looks best and play it back Repeat the say process as needed When you are satisfied with the result tap acceptPron Delete any unwanted pronunciation select it and tap delPron Then after turning on the mic and saying the name you will notice a small train button in the lower right area of the screen Tap the train button Voice LookUp User s Guide page 21 12 24 ok l delPron trai Phonetic spellings With use you will become accustomed to the phonetic spellings used by Voice LookUp A complete list and discussion of the phoneme set is in Appendix C As you become more comfortable with these spellings you can actually edit the phonetic spellings in the pronunciation screen using the PDA keyboard This method can be used for problem pronunciations but should be used carefully Check your pronunciation by playing it with the playPron button Voice LookUp User s Guide page 22 More
11. 4 demo Send comments and bug reports to Info HandHeldSpeech com Buy it at www HandHeldSpeech com Options main screen From this screen you can select several options User File You can switch to a different user file by selecting from a dropdown list Most users will probably need only de ault usr However if more than one person uses Voice LookUp on this PDA you will need separate user files And you will need to switch to your models when you use it Voice LookUp remembers the last set of models used Contacts List You can switch between active contact lists in most cases between the demo contacts list and your own Outlook list Check Boxes You can turn on or off the reminder to inspect bad machine generated pronunciations upon startup of the program You can specify whether or not you want to be reminded to train the models You can specify whether to include exclude business names in the active LookUp command set If the check box LookUp Business Name is checked and for example Voice LookUp User s Guide page 39 you have a contact who works at IBM the company name field in his contact is IBM you will be able to say LookUp IBM to access his contact info You can also specify whether the echoing of voice commands is on or off This check box is also settable in all dialogs with voice commands through the particular voice commands Echo On and Echo Off The switch to comman
12. 51 The letters t and d represent the same phonemes except for voicing th unvoiced gt TH th voiced gt DH TH and DH are the same phonemes except for voicing SH is an sh sound CH is a ch sound OW is the ou dipthong OW is one of the common spellings for it how now brown cow OY is the oi dipthong OY is one of the common spellings for it boy toy etc Voice LookUp User s Guide page 52
13. ETC DIALING BY DIGITS ETETE TETEA ETET AFEEF nennen enen enen iini e ERE nennen eelde entel CREATE SEND EMAIL VOICEMAIL SCHEDULE A MEETING eee een nen nennen nen n nnn n eau e p Voice LookUp User s Guide page 2 SWITCH ASKS E EN eet E 30 Using provided SwitchTo commands eese eene nete nennen trennen een rennen nnne 30 Creating your own SwitchTo commands eese eene eren enne trennen rennen 31 Workin With EIE CIE Dm 33 EDIT CONTACT DATA oe Este 33 CREATE 34 ENTER OUP ES eerte or tb eter red E ee ete P beso v eere 34 LOOKUP COUPLES ir entier o ee te utee tere reos iv wet 35 DELETE A CONTACT USE WITH 2 22 1 2 10000000000000000000000000000000000500000 7 35 NAMES OF BUSINESSES d etel iere intent to petu bart oet E neerde lan teer EN 36 USE THE VOICE KEYBOARD oars Seer peteret te eter b ecd om eed 36 dee oe Reno REESE EDU REOR ees 37 Usirig the alphab tin thedialog aat i ee Rasa be Da HEB 37 OPTIONS C 39
14. Switch to Solitaire Switch to Today Switch to Word SwitchTo commands may also require training just like a LookUp command When a SwitchTo command is successful the requested program window is displayed To train the successful command press the mic button which will restore the LookUp window Turn the onscreen mic button off without saying anything The previous command will still be displayed Train it Creating your own SwitchTo commands From the LookUp main screen tap newEntry An edit dialog opens Tap switchTo The SwitchTo edit dialog appears 1 32a ok al startWord Switch Ta r endword Tasks ath 1 clearField 231 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 jab a w e r t vju i o D E caplajsjd fjajhlijk ij shift z x 6 7 X Ste Edit the following fields 1 startWord Leave Switch To or change to another command if you like for example Show me 2 endWord Enter the name of the program you want to launch for example Tasks 3 path Enter the full path to the executable program file you want to run for example windows tasks exe As you enter the name you will see paths in the top left list box consistent with what you have typed If you see the path you want in the list tap it to auto fill the path Voice LookUp User s Guide page 31 Tap OK to close and save your command LookUp will test launch the program If you can double tap a fi
15. User s Guide page 18 alexander LeksandR usan Rd say A list of names with suspect or missing pronunciations is in the upper left of the screen When a name in that list is selected the box directly below shows the current set of pronunciations for that word and the first pronunciation in that list is played using speech synthesis The selected name also appears in the Say box above the mic button Turn the mic on and say the name A list of phonetic spellings appears in the upper right window A LookUp cindy ramsey ted Try selecting different pronunciations and tap playPron for each one LookUp will play back the name When you find a pronunciation that sounds right to you tap acceptPron Voice LookUp User s Guide page 19 If you don t like any of the pronunciation choices turn the mic on again and repeat the name to get a new list If you still don t like the sound you can actually edit the phonetic spelling yourself tap kbd to bring up the typing keyboard This will be easier after you have gained some familiarity with the phonetic spellings used by the program The phonetic alphabet is given in Appendix C In the above picture the pronunciation sindY should be selected and acceptPron pressed Also the existing pronunciation sIndY should be deleted select it then tap delPron You can quit editting pronunciations at any time by tapping e to save all t
16. Voice LookUp Version 4 1 User s Guide June 6 2005 HandHeld Speech LLC PO Box 15 Amesbury MA 01913 Info handheldspeech com Copyright 2005 Handheld Speech LLC Voice LookUp User s Guide page 1 Table of Contents Introduction to Voice LookUp eene tiene eret te b pter tegens 4 Getting Started ss EE 5 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS T Eu ee EET FERT 5 Installing Voice LookUp no erp OP ERE D RUE E ETHER EP i iri ete diende 6 UNZIP THE DOWNLOAD FILE ON YOUR PC INSTALLING VOICE LOOKUP Enrolling CIratmb o oic oem Gee ve eee evo de Reb rese ine 7 STEP 1 LAUNCH VOICE LOOKUP sossen onse ooveneenensvenseerenversveversennvenevesenseenveneeneenvenersvenseeeven 7 STEP2 TRAINING ee e 7 Timing your TESPONSE c a ee dre dies das Deenen dosnt 8 If the program doesn t seem to respond trennen trennen rennen 8 IX UL MEC E The importance of training Pitch Measurement STEP 3 FINISH AND SAVE erre stetisset eee e Reassigning the external microphone nennen nen
17. an and Spanish Voice LookUp User s Guide page 4 Getting Started This guide contains all the information you need to get Voice LookUp installed and running on your PDA There are four steps to getting started e Installing Voice LookUp e Training the phonetic speech models teaching it your voice e Assigning your PDAs microphone button to Voice LookUp optional but recommended e Starting to use Voice LookUp to find names and contact information For an introduction to the program a demonstration database is included You can move quickly from that to your own Pocket Outlook database Hardware Requirements e Any of the following handheld PDAs o Compaq iPaq o Casio Cassiopeia E100 E105 E115 E125 or EM500 o HP Jornada 54x series o PocketPC 2002 device any type o PocketPC 2003 device any type Desktop or laptop PC to synchronize with your PDA Note Early versions of Casio E125s and EM500s have a hardware bug Later mother boards are fixed and work fine with the product If Voice LookUp will not run on your device see Casio repair service to get yours repaired Voice LookUp User s Guide page 5 Installing Voice LookUp Unzip the download file on your PC Download from the net to your PC from www handheldspeech com download html one of the following files LkUpAll exe LkUpiPaq exe e LkUpJ54x exe LkUpEl00 exe e LkUpEll5 exe Depending on which file you downloaded you may have install
18. ation files for all the supported PDAs or just the particular one you selected They are all self extracting zip files Run the self extracting executable on you desktop PC It spawns the install exe app after unpacking Connect your handheld to your PC and when ActiveSync is happy press the start button If you do not already have ActiveSync installed on your PC you must install it before pressing start See your PDA documentation for instructions on installing ActiveSync it is usually found on a CD ROM that came with your PDA If you do not have the CD ROM you can download the latest version of ActiveSync from http www microsoft com Installing Voice LookUp The install program will automatically copy all the necessary files to your PDA You can run the install exe separately from the self extracting zip file If reinstalling over an earlier installation make sure Voice LookUp is not running on your PDA To ensure this tap the OK button on the main LookUp screen Installing is a benign process a reinstallation will leave your user files unchanged Installing over the top of the existing Voice LookUp is the normal upgrade procedure When the installation is finished you may disconnect your PDA from your PC and take it anywhere you like You are now ready to enroll in Voice LookUp Voice LookUp User s Guide page 6 Enrolling Training You must train Voice LookUp to the sound of your voice before it can accurately r
19. by tapping Cancel in the above dialog If you want to see it again you can always uncheck it in the Options dialog You should inspect these pronunciations sometime but you can do this at your leisure after you have gained more familiarity with the program See Adding Pronunciations below for how to do this Using your Outlook contacts Whether you go directly to the LookUp main screen or detour to the Add Pronunciations screen and then to the main screen you use the lookup function in exactly the same way you did with the demo database Tap on the mic hold it close to your lips and say Look up Mary Smith Use the full name of one of your own contacts But remember You must say Look before the name of your contact Follow the same procedure you followed with the demo database for e training the model for successful recognition e saving your refined model and e using the Find dialog to locate contacts that LookUp is having trouble recognizing With careful use of training you will soon have a very accurate voice recognition system Adding pronunciations Launch LookUp Go to the options dialog and uncheck the ignore bad pronunciations at startup and then close down if necessary Close down by tapping OK in the upper right corner of the screen When asked if you would like to inspect pronunciations tap yes The Add Pronunciation screen will open as illustrated on the next page Voice LookUp
20. ds are the only commands never echoed Launching an app can be a slow process and the results are readily apparent it is unnecessary to further delay it echoing the voice command More Options Tap moreOptions for additional choices See More Options below Enroll Tap the enroll button to repeat the enrollment process if your model becomes corrupted and you want to start over or to enroll a new user License This button is visible only when you are using Voice LookUp in trial mode When you have registered your copy and received a license key by email tap the license button The following screen opens to allow you to complete the registration process 123 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Tabja wje r t v u i CAP a s d f ga h j k T shift z x c v b n m cuj j te I Enter your email address and the license key then tap OK More options When you tap moreOptions you are taken to the following screen Voice LookUp User s Guide page 40 EF LookUp 3 45 1 07 fok Q Dialing Prefix1 Dialing Prefix2 Local AreaCode mail Service ActiveSync pruneThresh apptAlarmMin PruneThresh affects the speed of recognition With a low value hypotheses that are Fitting poorly are pruned sooner runs Faster With too low a value the right answer may be discarded There is a speed vs accuracy tradeoff range 240 to 160 Dialing prefixes You can enter dialing prefi
21. e mnemonics Short vowels use the lower case version of the vowel The long vowels use the upper case version of the vowel All simple consonants are the lower case version of that consonant except for L because it is so hard to visually distinguish between the capital I and the lower case 1 The atSign is used for the schwa looks something like an e and dictionaries use an upside down e as the symbol for the schwa The reduced e schwa like e gt c an e with a line missing The reduced i schwa like 1 gt the bottom line of the i being reduced to just a dot The reduced version of O gt 0 the number zero sometimes called Oh The phoneme 8 often occurs from a oo spelling foot oo looks like an 8 on its side But oo isn t the only spelling producing 8 would gt w8d but oo can also go to an U sound room gt rUm The is associated with n sounds from Spanish so was chosen as an alternate n symbol L 9m and n are schwa consonant combinations that have blended together I write them explicitly as L 9 m Qn even when it is hard to hear the schwa I model them as their own phoneme They are unstressed vowel things R is an unstressed r vowel RR is a stressed r vowel The letters s and z represent the same phonemes except for voicing sh unvoiced gt SH sh voiced gt ZH SH and ZH are the same phonemes except for voicing Voice LookUp User s Guide page
22. e peo iei 48 Voice LookUp User s Guide page 3 Introduction to Voice LookUp Voice LookUp is a powerful speech recognition system that works with the address book or contacts list in your Personal Digital Assistant PDA Voice LookUp allows you to find addresses and phone numbers using voice commands then dial phone numbers all with a squeeze of the microphone button With simple voice commands you can create email voice attachments schedule meetings and switch from one program to another on your PDA Voice LookUp is the first large vocabulary speech application available to consumers for a handheld PDA first release Voice LookUp 1 0 shipped November 27 2000 The current release for WinCE and PocketPC supports the following platforms e Compaq iPaq HP iPaq e Casio Cassiopeia E100 E105 E115 E125 and EM500 e HP Jornada 54x series e All PocketPC 2002 devices any type e All PocketPC 2003 devices any type More WinCE platforms will be supported in the future There is no warranty that the software is suitable for any purpose If you experience bugs or other problems or have a suggestion to improve the product send an email to Info HandHeldSpeech com If you are a software developer and would like to add large vocabulary speech recognition to an application for either the PDA or desktop PCs contact Info HandHeldSpeech com There is an SDK available The SDK supports English Germ
23. elect and train the correct word to improve its model e Say and train the incorrect word to train it away from the correct word Training for sounds not words LookUp works by recognizing phonemes sounds not by recognizing whole words When you train a particular word you are training the model for all of the phonemes in Voice LookUp User s Guide page 20 that word Since other words may use the same phonemes this training will affect those words as well This means it is important to check the phonetic spelling displayed by LookUp before you tap train Suppose you said Look up John and in the resulting list you selected the entry for Johnny with a phonetic spelling of jonY If you train this pronunciation you will make the model for Y worse rather than better If you meant to say Johnny instead of John it is best to repeat the utterance the way you meant to say it then train the correct pronunciation You can always tap the pronunciation by the train button to verify it agrees with what you said If the pronunciation for the word is actually incorrect you will need to change it see the Add Pronunciation section You may find words however that require special training Special training for difficult words If a word just never comes up in the choice list when you try to look it up it may be time to use stronger methods Whereas ordinary training in the main LookUp screen has a 10 effect on the model
24. espond to your commands This procedure is called enrolling creating voice models It is very important that you perform the enrollment in a quiet place Voice LookUp needs to hear just your voice not the sounds of traffic dogs or nearby table saws Step 1 Launch Voice LookUp On your PDA Start Programs Tap LookUp When asked if you would like to enroll tap yes This launches the enroll app Step 2 Training This training screen will appear A Enrolling 11 57a Say SSS mw mic is Off turn mic on then repeat the prompt 0 done You will see a microphone mic button on the screen and an indication that the mic is off When you are ready to begin tap the mic button tap it with your stylus to switch the mic on and wait for the prompt You will be given words to say starting with zero 1234 Remember Voice LookUp User s Guide page 7 e Make sure the microphone is close to your lips e Pause a moment after hearing the word then repeat it e Speak clearly in your normal voice After the program hears you repeat the word it will prompt you with another Repeat each word or phrase exactly Use your normal voice because that s what you want the program to recognize Timing your response When you hear a prompt always wait about one heartbeat before responding On most PDAs there is a slight delay between when the computer says the mic is on and when it is actually wor
25. ew name type in the selection box e If you are the sole user of the machine choose default usr which will cause your profile to be used automatically each time the program is started Or you can type your name followed by usr This is the best choice if several people will be using the program on this machine The kbd button brings up the keyboard e If you have already saved a profile under the name you select the new profile will overwrite the earlier one Now tap Save It which returns you to the main screen Tap Exit to end the enrollment Voice LookUp User s Guide page 9 Reassigning the external microphone button There is one more thing to do before actually running LookUp It is optional but highly recommended That is to reassign the PDA s external physical microphone button to make it a LookUp shortcut This will greatly simplify one handed use of Voice LookUp What it does After you have reassigned the physical mic button pressing it once will automatically bring up the Voice LookUp program If you are already in the program pressing the button will perform the default action for the screen you are in For example e If you are in a dialog box with an onscreen mic button pressing the physical button turns the mic on equivalent to tapping the onscreen mic button e If you are in a dialog without an onscreen mic button pressing the physical button triggers the default for that screen F
26. he pronunciations changes you have made in this session or Cancel to discard changes you have made in this session Either command brings you to the LookUp main screen Tips for better training When you first begin using the program even after enrollment the phonetic models are far from fully trained LookUp s performance will improve markedly with careful training At the beginning you should always train successful recognitions particularly if you had to select an item from list Later as your accuracy approaches 100 you can stop training When not to train Always train with caution If there is loud background noise don t train If you stumbled over a pronunciation don t train Take care that the phonetic spelling you see beside the Train button actually reflects the way you said the word or phrase You can tap the phonetic spelling and the speech synthesis engine will play the pronunciation If you ve trained and then wished you hadn t or if performance seems to have degraded after the training don t save the new model Problem names Sometimes LookUp will seem to stubbornly pick another name instead of the one you want despite your having trained the correct pronunciation The problem may be that the model for the competing name is improperly similar and needs to be corrected The solution is to train the competing name so LookUp will stop confusing it with the name you want Use these two tactics together e S
27. hrough an example with screen shots Suppose you say October 31 2 to 3 and the result was 12 57a ok subject meeting start 10 21 02 Mon 2 00 PM end 10 21 02 Mon 3 00 PM who David Chase where reminder none note oktObR twenv FRRst tu t THrE nn october 2 n Joctober 21st 2 to 8 october 21st 2 to 3 We selected the second choice because it has the times correct and only the date is wrong Tapping the start date 10 21 02 a pop up calendar appears If we were correcting a time a pop up list of hours would have appeared We tapped on the 315 A LookUp subject meeting start 10 31 02 Thu 2 00 PM 030 1 2 3 4 5 5b 7 B 9 10 1l 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 29 30 Ej 2 october 31st 2 to 3 Voice LookUp User s Guide page 29 You will notice that when you select something in either the pop up calendar or the pop up hour list boxes the selected item immediately becomes the entry Also notice the recognition choice list changes consistent with that selection The pop up windows will close automatically when the focus shifts away from them So just tap the next thing you want to do or tap the far left side of the screen to force them to close Now that the recognition choice list contains the correct phrase we can tap the correct choice and hit the train button You can tap the ph
28. ialog is up you can change the output selection You can tap voice to have LookUp read the number aloud to you so that you can dial it yourself Voice LookUp User s Guide page 23 You may also tap cell to have LookUp dial the embedded phone You must have the correct hardware a PocketPC phone device We do not support the AudioVox Thera That device does not support a TAPI request interface and AudioVox has not replied to our request for an alternative The other buttons allow you to add or remove prefixes from the phone number without changing the contacts listing and to cancel or pause the countdown For international phone numbers your cell phone service is very smart For example If you know someone in England if the phone number in your contact list were 44 121 123 4567 the country code for England is 44 Then the phone number will work everywhere The sign alerts the dialer to the following country code Then if your are not in England it prepends any codes necessary to make an international call If you are in England it turns the 44 into a 0 which was missing all local calls in England begin with 0 Refer to the Options screen to set default dialing prefixes and area codes Dialing by Digits You can directly dial any number by saying Dial followed by a string of digits For example suppose you want to call 555 1212 you would say dial5 5512 1 2 The countdown dialog would then a
29. iformVickorwWwhiskyXrayY ankeezulu Ej e Tap the mic on and say Romeo the mic turns off correct if you need to e Tap the mic on and say Echo Golf again correct if you need to Voice LookUp User s Guide page 37 A LookUp homeFax workTel 555 319 ad clearField zero123456789 atSignPeriodHyphenUnderscore AlphaBravoCharlyDeltaEchoFoxtrotGolfHotelIndi JulietKiloLimaMikeNovOscarPapaQuebecRomeo SierraTangolniformVickorWwhiskyXrayY ankeezulu E o Note that you can say many letters together You could have said the whole thing Golf Romeo Echo Golf and been done in one utterance If incorrect letters appear in the edit box you must choose the correct letters from the choice list or delete them or clear the field before continuing Once you have the correct spelling tap train but not if there are background noises or if you stumbled on a pronunciation The entire sequence of character utterances are trained when you tap train not just the last utterance This means you need only train once after all your corrections For more tips on training the Voice Keyboard function see Appendix B Voice LookUp User s Guide page 38 Options To reach the Options screen tap options on the Voice LookUp main screen AF Lookup User File default usr Ignore bad pronunciations at StartUp Don t nag about More Training LookUp Business Name LookUp ver 3 6 3 19 0
30. in bOY the dipthong oi starts in a long O a moves to a long E oE is included as a phoneme sequence for the long I sound and OY as the phoneme sequence for the oi dipthong as if they were phonemes in themselves These sounds are modeled as 2 phoneme sequences One other important note you must be careful about r s following long O s words with a terminal long O sound both O and 0 must be followed by a w phoneme For example go gt gOw Voice LookUp User s Guide page 49 polo gt pOLOw The reason for this is protect the O sound from a following r For example in continuous speech the phrase go right turns into the phoneme sequence gOwroEt This is to be compared with the word four which has the phoneme sequence fOr Between the O sound in go and the sound in right there really is a w sound While in the word four the long O sound and r sound actually begin to mix There is nothing separating them The same discussion applies to Owr sequences 0 is the unstressed long O In general a following r has a big impact on the preceding vowel Following are some concrete examples cute kyUt far for fire gt joe gt jOw vision gt viZH Gn queen kwEn thick gt THik this gt DHis woody w8dY day gt dA air gt me gt mE here hir exit gt eks t or maybe egz Gt or even egz t For more examples browse ggdict voc It is a simple text file
31. ke Pepper Valerie Phoenix Nathan Pittman Rick Powell Chris Prince Johnny Reb David Richardson Andy Roberts Mike Roberts Bill Rodriguez Fleetwood Rogers Johnny Rotten Janice Schwartz Edwin Seaman Michael Shipley John Smith Robin Smith Chris Snyder Barbara Sullivan Malcolm Tate Dick Taylor Mike Templeton Brian Thomas Steven Thompson Mark Turner Pamela Vane Scott Walker Anne Watson John Wayne Terry Wellington Gene Wolf Carolyn Young Elizabeth amp Richard Taylor amp Burton Voice LookUp User s Guide page 45 Appendix B Additional Information Voice Keyboard tips When working with the AlphaBravo voice keyboard there are some additional tricks you can use to help train the models for better recognition When you speak the letters of a name for example Echo Golf for EG the letters appear in two places in the edit box where you are spelling the name and in small square buttons hTelExt homeTel2 zero123456789 atSignPeriodHyphenUnderscore AlphaBravoCharlyDeltaEchoFoxtrotGolFHotelIndi JulietKiloLinaMikeNovOscarPapaQuebecRomeo SierraTangoUniformVickorWhiskyxXray Yankeezulu E Along with these buttons choice lists appear in the upper left The contents of any given button reflects the selected choice above it When LookUp correctly recognizes your voice keystrokes you can ignore the buttons However if you notice after you have moved on from a character or group of characters that
32. king If you don t pause a moment before speaking your first sounds will be cut off If the program doesn t seem to respond If you ve repeated the prompt and nothing seems to be happening chances are it didn t pick up your voice Say the word or phrase again a bit louder Make sure the mic is close to your lips Pausing If you want to pause the training tap the mic button to turn it off Tap it again to resume unDo If for any reason you think the machine didn t get a good take of your voice on a particular word or phrase tap the unDo button This will back the training session up by one step You can back up a number of steps if you like by tapping the button repeatedly You might want to do this if you stumbled on a word or phrase or if your voice came out in a squeak That was me or if the dog barked or some other background noise may have interfered with your recording After undoing you will have to turn the mic back on to resume Remember Voice LookUp thinks you re repeating the word or phrase exactly as it was presented to you So anything that messes up the recording will confuse matters When in doubt take a moment to redo The importance of training The Voice LookUp training module is actually listening for each sound or phoneme that you speak It doesn t know words but it does know how to compare your sounds to the words in its vocabulary Whether you say Hello in a Southern drawl a Midwes
33. l automatically be transferred to the Outbox of your email program and sent from your PC Note ActiveSync must be configured correctly to enable sending of emails In the ActiveSync main screen you should see Inbox listed as an Information Type Double tap on it Check the box under Outbox folder to automatically send messages and make sure that ActiveSync is checked in the window directly below If Inbox does not appear in the ActiveSync main screen tap Options and under Sync Options check the box beside Inbox then tap OK Another Note You can configure LookUp to use another Mail Service in the MoreOptions dialog Tap hold to suspend the email dialog It will re appear on the screen the next time you say Voice regardless of whether you have this contact or another active at the time Schedule a meeting From the LookUp main screen if you have looked up a contact you can use a voice command to schedule a meeting with that person Tap the mic on and say Schedule a meeting A calendar appointment window opens with the contact s name already supplied as illustrated on the next page Instead of a meeting you can also say Schedule a call Schedule a phonecall Schedule a visit Schedule an appointment Schedule a job Schedule a task Schedule a breakfast Schedule a lunch Schedule a dinner Schedule a reminder Voice LookUp User s Guide page 27 A LookUp subject meeting start end who
34. lename in File Explorer to launch it that is if the file association already exists in Windows you can enter the filename in the path instead of the program name For example suppose you keep travel expenses in a spreadsheet called travel px1 You could define your SwitchTo command as Switch to travel with a path to travel px1 Voice LookUp would then open that file in Excel Note You can edit or delete an existing command entry by using the editEntry and deleteEntry buttons in the LookUp main screen Voice LookUp User s Guide page 32 Working with Contacts One important thing to remember when you work with contacts on your PDA is that if you sync your PDA with another computer changes you make to a contact listing on your PDA including deletions may carry over to the other computer This can be very convenient of course but it s also a reason for being careful Edit contact data Find your contact in the main LookUp screen To edit the data for that contact tap editEntry In the edit dialog select from the upper right box the data field you want to edit E LookUp 8 04p ok firstName John stere B l clearField You can edit using the keyboard or if you prefer by voice command see Use the Voice Keyboard below When you are finished with this dialog e Tap OK to accept changes or cancel to abandon changes When you tap OK you will be taken to the Add Pronunciation dialog If y
35. live speak your message clearly tap the mic off At this point you can tap play to listen to your recording or tap the mic on to append to your message or tap erase if you want to start over Then tap OK if you are happy with the recording and want to save it or tap erase then OK if you want to quit without saving Note to adjust the volume of playback go to the Windows Start menu choose Settings then Sound amp Reminders Adjust the system volume with the sliding bar Press the mic button again to return to where you were in Voice LookUp When you tap OK you return to the email composition screen Two exclamation points before the to field indicate that a voice mail is attached to your email Send email voicemail Finish composing your email in the email composition screen If you have attached a voicemail message and do not provide a subject a default subject line of Voice Mail is provided for you Voice LookUp User s Guide page 26 Then you can e send to close the screen and place the email in your Outbox or e hold to save the email and return to it later or e cancel to discard the message When you tap send your email is placed in the Outbox which in Pocket Outlook is displayed as a subfolder of the Inbox If your PDA is configured for direct email access the message will be sent during the next outgoing mail session Otherwise the next time you sync to your PC the email wil
36. nen eene enne ens 10 WHAT TEDOES keen enne n 10 HOW TO REASSIGN THE MIC BUTTON cccccececesececececececececececececececececececececececsesescecececececececececececececeeseecess 10 Using Voice LEookUp torpe ete e ettet ertet dee D tote teet dette itte 12 OPTIONS ep ee petet iei e onu p dena e oen erem THE DEMO DATABASE LOOK UP LOOKUP S 422 TRY ANOTHER NAME AND TRAIN IT TRY USING A COMPANY NAME none IF YOU DO NOT SEE THE NAME YOU WANT IN THE LIST SAVE THE NEW MODEL aire binnentreden USE YOUR OWN OUTLOOK ADDRESS 444 0 0000000 een nenne nrenne Changing databases eiie eee t t PRO Re EU REO PER re ene Missing Pronunciations i e vernederden UT eee 17 Using your Outlook contacts eese eene teen eene enne Adding pronuncidtions siet e eter eite ere ce tee e detta TIPS FOR BETTER TRAINING When not to train Problem names esee Training for sounds not words 4 ede e dte f due ee e Special training for difficult words Phonetic spellings adesso ene ede e e aeq eee ive ee seine ber Qe Re eM wende a emend dm BS ER ern DIAL A PHONE NUMBER CALL HOME WORK
37. onetic spelling to here it played The who field be replaced or appended to by saying Look Up The contact name is inserted at the cursor replacing what is selected if there is a selection The where field the reminder field and the notes field data must be entered using the stylus or keyboard The default value of the reminder field is settable in the Options gt MoreOptions dialog To finish the calendar event e send to close the screen and place the appointment in your Calendar or e hold to save the appointment and return to it later or e tap cancel to discard the appointment If you tap hold to save the appointment it will appear in the screen the next time you say Schedule a meeting regardless of whether you have this contact or another active at the time Switch Tasks With Voice LookUp you can use voice commands to switch between tasks on your PDA For example you can say Switch to Solitaire and Voice LookUp will launch Solitaire If Solitaire is already running LookUp will bring it to the foreground Using provided SwitchTo commands The following commands are already recognized by LookUp Switch to Calculator Switch to Calendar Switch to Contacts Switch to eBook Switch to Excel Switch to Explorer Switch to InBox Switch to Internet Explorer Switch to Media Player Voice LookUp User s Guide page 30 Switch to Money Switch to Notes
38. or example in the Options dialog it taps the OK button e If you were in another program LookUp is pulled to the foreground and the mic is turned on How to reassign the mic button Tap the upper left corner of the PDA screen to reveal the Start button if it s not already visible then tap the Start button From the pull down menu select Settings then Buttons Select the program tab if using WinCE 2 11 En Settings Buttons Assign your Favorite programs to the program hardware buttons Button Assignment A m BElButton 2 Contacts Button QMenu Button 4 Qstart Button 5 Record Button assignment Inbox Infrared Receive Internet Explorer LookUp Margi Mirror Highlight the side button which probably has record as its default application or you can choose a different button if you prefer In the Button Assignment dropdown box near the bottom find LookUp and select it Tap OK to accept the button reassignment Voice LookUp User s Guide page 10 If you later wish to restore the button to its original function simply repeat these steps and select the function you want Through the remainder of this guide it is assumed that you have reassigned the mic button However you can always use screen taps taps to accomplish the same thing as using the mic button Voice LookUp User s Guide page 11 Using Voice LookUp To begin using the program simply press your PDA s mic button
39. ou have changed any names in your contact you should train new pronunciations here When you have finished or if you have not changed any names tap OK Your changes will be saved to the contacts database Note if you have changed any of the name fields you will see the following confirmation box Voice LookUp User s Guide page 33 The Name fields have changed Create a new Entry Yes creates No edits the existing entry Tap Yes to create a new entry this is equivalent to a Save As command or No to change the existing entry Create a new contact There are two ways to create a new contact from the Voice LookUp main screen newEntry to go to the edit dialog and enter all new data Proceed as described above e If you want to begin with data you already have for a similar contact perhaps someone related or a coworker at the same company look up that contact first then tap editEntry This brings you to the same dialog but with data already present o Change the name and any other data you like then proceed as above o When you finish with the Add Pronunciation dialog and tap OK you will be asked if you want to create a new entry This is equivalent to a Save As command o Tap Yes Enter couples If your contact is a couple you can use a special syntax to enable LookUp to find the contact by either or both names e Use an ampersand amp between the first names and e Enter a space or an
40. ppear giving you time to stop the call should the digits be incorrectly recognized It is very important to train your digits When the voice models of your digits are well trained the error rate on digits is essentially zero There is one important caveat about digit strings We have omitted the pronunciation Oh for 0 You must say Zero for 0 We want to stress this 0 is pronounced Zero The reason we have done this is that the recognizer all recognizers have a difficult time with Oh It tends to insert extra O s and in some cases where there were two 0 s in a row think there was only one 0 Insertion and deletion errors involving Oh will completely dominate the digit errors that the recognizer will make The pronunciation Zero is not confusable If we insist that the user must say Zero and Oh is not allowed the error rate can reach zero We apologize for the inconvenience of forcing you to conform to the foibles of the recognizer But we believe it is the best course until the recognizer is more accurate There is a reminder to say Zero on the title bar of the countdown dialog It says O Zero Create email Suppose you have looked up a contact and want to send that person an email You can send either e astandard text email or Voice LookUp User s Guide page 24 e avoicemail an email with a wav file attached which the recipient can play back with any media player softwa
41. re With the contact you want visible on the screen tap on the mic and say Send mail An email composition screen opens with the email address of your contact already entered in the to field 12 02p ok to henry Steeldriver com Jhenry Steeldriver d If you wish to add another address you can do so by moving the cursor to any address field to or bec Tap on the mic again and say Look with the name of the contact you wish to add That contact s email address will be added Note if an address is highlighted in the active field when you do this the new address will replace the highlighted address You can use the keyboard to type a text message In addition you can create a voicemail attachment by turning on the mic and saying Voicemail You can also tap the voiceMail button at the top of the screen Proceed as described in the next section Create voicemail In the main LookUp screen if you have looked up a contact and want to send a short voicemail to that person tap the mic on and say Voicemail This is exactly the same as saying Send mail and then saying Voicemail It simply bypasses the email composition screen The Voicemail screen opens displaying a set of recorder buttons Voice LookUp User s Guide page 25 to Jhenry Steeldriver Com title cc bcc Create Voice Attachment tap the mic on pause a moment to let the mic come a
42. reminder alarm field It has a default value That default is in minutes and is settable here Voice LookUp User s Guide page 42 Making a Backup of Your User File You may wish to periodically back up the file containing your trained phonetic model This could come in very handy if for example the battery on your PDA were to die causing your files to vanish Sync your PDA to your PC and perform the backup from ActiveSync Tap Explore and look for a folder named hhspeech on your Mobile Device In that folder you will find a file named default usr or perhaps something else usr if you created other user names Simply copy that file onto the hard drive of your PC in a location you can remember such as the folder where you unzipped the LookUp files If you added custom pronunciations you should also backup your voc file The filename of your voc corresponds to the filename of your contacts If your contacts file in the options dialog is outlook tsv you should backup your outlook voc It is located in the same hhspeech folder Voice LookUp User s Guide page 43 Uninstalling LookUp To uninstall Voice LookUp launch File Explorer In the root or My Device directory of your device or on your storage card is a folder called hhspeech Delete it and all of its contents If there is a file called hhspeech 10g in your root directory delete it as well To remove the LookUp link from the Windows Start menu dele
43. s pruning very aggressively it has less work to do and runs faster But if the right hypothesis is temporarily scoring poorly and the recognizer is pruning too aggressively it might be discarded before it has a chance to improve PruneThresh is the score difference that triggers pruning The default value is 240 and that value keeps a lot of hypotheses alive If Voice LookUp is not running in real time you finish speaking and you have to wait for an answer to appear try adjusting the pruneThresh setting downward The right setting is the highest value that still allows a quick response time Voice LookUp User s Guide page 47 Appendix C The Phoneme Set Following is a brief description of the phoneme set used in Voice LookUp 9 asincolA the schwa vowel asincAt the short a vowel A asindAY thelong A vowel 5 b asinBe _ the simple consonant b d asinDo the simple consonant d e asinrEd the short e vowel c asin Embrace not short e and not 2 something in between E asinsEE the long E vowel Y asinonlY a reduced unstressed version of long E f asinFan the simple consonant f g asinGo the simple consonant g h asinHit the simple consonant h i asinslt the short i vowel as not short 1 and not something in between I asinhI thelong I vowel j asinJoe the simple consonant j k asin Kid simple consonant L asinLid the simple consonant L L asinabLe asch
44. t Tap the mic on and try again If you still don t see the name after several attempts tap the find It button to the right of the mic button This brings up a search screen with a keyboard at the bottom Begin typing the name you want until you see it in the window in the upper right of the screen Note you can also search by other terms by choosing from the dropdown box such fields as firstName or even homeState if you want to see a list of everyone who lives in a particular state Voice LookUp User s Guide page 15 Schwartz Janice Seaman Edwin Shipley Michael Smith John Smith Robin Snell Doug Snyder Chris Sullivan Barbara camel 123 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Tabja wje r t v u i LA L L 171 Tools Tap on the correct name You are returned automatically to the main LookUp screen where you should now see the contact you wanted Note do not train the model to this name until you have added the proper phonetic pronunciation Tap the editEntry button This opens an edit screen You may change information about the contact if you wish If the information is correct tap OK This opens the Add Pronunciation screen which you use as described in the section Adding Pronunciations below LookUp should now be able to find the contact Save the new model When you train LookUp to a successful utterance it doesn t actually save the changes automa
45. take you longer to achieve a good rate of recognition success Look up names Start by pressing the mic button If you were not already in the LookUp main screen this will launch it or switch you to it Note you use the external mic button just as you would the onscreen mic button You tap it once to turn it on You don t press it and hold it down After you finish speaking Voice LookUp automatically turns the mic off Voice LookUp User s Guide page 12 1 EHE Look in the lower left corner of the screen You will see a button that says either mic is Off or mic is On If the mic is on you may begin speaking If the mic is off press the mic switch again The onscreen button changes to mic is On Hold the PDA s microphone close to your lips and say Look up John Smith You may choose any name from the database However you must say Look before the name The onscreen mic button changes to mic is Off a moment after you stop speaking If it does not change the microphone probably did not pick up your voice Try again holding the microphone close to your lips Now wait a moment longer while the program looks up the contact LookUp s response Voice LookUp compares your utterance to the syllables it has learned to recognize Then it returns its best estimate of the name you gave it At first until it is more fully trained it may display a list of names instead of just one The speech synthesis echoes the top
46. te it from the windows start menu Nprograms folder You are done Voice LookUp User s Guide page 44 Appendix A Names in demo tsv Print this page for easy reference while working with the demo address book Stephen Abrams Mary Ainsworth Delta Airlines United Airlines William Anderson Alan Archer Jackie Autry Sandy Backman Rod Barber Gene Bergstrom Douglas Bishop Chuck Brooks Neil Brown Candice Carrol Kyle Carson Robert Chang David Chase Jeff Chen Lee Chen Tony Chen Jimmy Clark Larry Cook Victor Cooper Veronica Crawford Joann Cross Don Cummings Rod Davis Sarah Dawes John Doe Rose Edwards Paul Ellerman Joyce Farmer Doug Ferguson Claudia Fielding Dennis Fischer Bill Flash Kevin Ford Jay Fox Bill Gates Robin Goldman Paul amp Sandra Eastman Patrick Graves David Harrington Steve Harvey Jonni Hatcher Irene Henderson John Henry Patricia Hildebrand Stan Hudson Michael Hughes Dennis Humphreys Jon Jacob Joyce James Ronnie Jenkins Ron Jon Michael Jones Erica Jong Joseph Jordan Gary Kaufman Steve Kelly Mark Kemper Michael Kim Blake Kroft Michell Land Peter Lang Heidi Larson Jennifer Lewis James Litman Linda Logan Michael Louis Wendy Lynch Robert Lyons Joe Maclaren Robert Maclean Kate Manson Thomas Marcus Carol Marsh Michelle McCain Nathalie Miller Roger Moore Doug Morris Russ Morrison George Nelson Drew O brien Nancy Owen Bobbi Palmer Eileen Patterson Kevin Pendleton Mi
47. te voice model for LookUp to work with You will noticeable improvement in recognition accuracy with training So train it train it train it The initial accuracy after enrollment is far from the terminal accuracy with training Even when LookUp is getting things right it does not mean that your models are well centered on your voice it just means that the right answers are beating wrong answers When you models are well centered LookUp will get things right even under very noisy conditions Voice LookUp User s Guide page 14 If you continually use Voice LookUp without training a warning dialog will appear urging you to train more often This dialog is meant to be irritating and encourages beginning users to train After enrolling you should train both when the top choice is correct and when you corrected it All the models need polishing The warning dialog can be disabled in the options screen press the options button Try using a Company Name If LookUp Business Name is enabled in the options dialog you can LookUp by company name Suppose John Smith works for IBM and IBM is in the database in his Company Name field Turn the mic on and say Look Up IBM and Voice LookUp responds with A LookUp find it Jsavelser options It turns out John Henry and David Chase also work for IBM By tapping on their names you can inspect their contact data If you do not see the name you want in the lis
48. tern twang or a Boston accent it will recognize your particular way of speaking That s why it s really really important to start out with a good training session The quality of the enrollment has a big effect on the accuracy of the program later Voice LookUp User s Guide page 8 Pitch Measurement After the third prompt zero 12345 67 8 9 Voice LookUp will pause and calculate a pitch measurement for your voice Typical measurement for men are in the range of 55 through 59 but a deep bass voice may be as low as 50 A typical woman s voice ranges from 62 through 68 Some sopranos are as high as 74 There is overlap in the ranges a high tenor and a low female voice can both be in the high 50 s to low 6075 After it has computed a pitch measurement and you have accepted it the enrollment begins a short tutorial on how to use Voice LookUp The tutorial forces you to tap the mic on say a phrase then tap the train button It demonstrates the main LookUp window and gives you a few facts about using it After the short tutorial you are returned to the main enrollment dialog to acquire a bit more data on your voice Step 3 Finish and save When the enrollment process is complete the program will ask you to save your profile before exiting Tap SaveUser A dialog box appears asking you to name your profile A Enrolling Cancel If an existing usr files is selected saving will trample it Default usr is the default To enter a n
49. tically It is like changes made to a document in a word processing program which are stored in memory but not saved until you tap save This gives you the opportunity to discard changes if you ve accidentally tapped train by mistake perhaps you realized after the fact that the stereo was on when you used LookUp You can save changes at any time by tapping saveUser at the bottom of the main screen It s a good idea to do this if you have trained several successful recognitions in a row When you close LookUp by tapping OK at the top right corner of the screen you will see the following message if you have trained the model and not saved Voice LookUp User s Guide page 16 Phonetic models have been adapted Save the changes Yes gt save and exit No gt just exit Cancel gt don t exit Phonetic Models are Adapted Tap Yes unless you have made changes that you prefer to discard Use your own Outlook address book After you ve used the demo database long enough to feel comfortable with the LookUp process and at the same time further trained your voice model you can begin to use your own address book and put Voice LookUp to work for real Changing databases From the LookUp main screen tap Options In the Contacts drop down box choose outlook tsv to change to your Pocket Outlook contacts list Missing pronunciations The first time you use LookUp with your own database you will probably see a message
50. underscore mark on either side of the ampersand For example Paul and Sandra Eastman could be entered as either e firstName Paul amp Sandra or firstName Paul amp Sandra Note if you enter an ampersand with no spaces firstName AT amp T this will be parsed as a single word If the couple has different last names use ampersands between the last names as well For example Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton could be entered as firstName Elizabeth amp Richard lastName Taylor amp Burton Voice LookUp User s Guide page 34 If there are more than two names in the contact for example a family with children you can use more than one ampersand For example firstName Alice amp Betty amp Charles amp David lastName Eastman amp Farnsworth amp Gulf Look up couples When looking up couples pronounce the ampersand as and If saying both names you must say the first names in the same order in which they appear in the contact Using the examples above you can say Look up Paul Look up Sandra Look up Paul Eastman Look up Sandra Eastman Look up Paul and Sandra Look up Paul and Sandra Eastman Look up Eastman Or for the second example Look up Elizabeth Look up Richard Look up Elizabeth Taylor Look up Richard Burton Look up Elizabeth and Richard Look up Taylor and Burton In addition to these choices which are the ones you think of others are legal
51. wa L sound scrunched together an L sound acting like an unstressed vowel m asinMen the simple consonant m m asin colUMN a schwa m sound scrunched together an m sound acting like an unstressed vowel n asinNo the simple consonant n n asin womAN a schwa n sound scrunched together an n sound acting like an unstressed vowel asinsiNG another n sound with a tongue position of k o asinhOt the short o vowel Voice LookUp User s Guide page 48 O asingO thelong O vowel 0 asinpolO a reduced unstressed version of long O 8 asinfOOt a vowel that is between U and u p asinPop _ the simple consonant p r asinRed the simple consonant r R asinlayER an r sound acting like an unstressed vowel RR asinfUR astressed r vowel s asin So the simple consonant s SH asin SHow the sh consonant CH asin CHin the ch consonant indistinguishable from tSH t asin Tip the simple consonant t TH asin THin the th consonant with no voicing just air DH asin THis the th consonant with voicing asincUp the short u vowel U asindUE long U vowel v asin Van the simple consonant v w asin Won the simple consonant w y asin Yes the simple consonant y 2 asin Zoo the simple consonant z an s sound with voicing ZH asin viSion the sh consonant with voicing OW asintOWn the dipthong ou approximately starts in short a and moves into a long U OY as
52. xes for the automatic dialing function to use see Dial a Phone Number under Advanced Features You can have the prefixes entered and available for automatic use regardless of whether or not you currently use them To select or deselect Prefixes 1 or 2 tap the radio buttons beside the entries You can select either prefix or none but not both Local area code Enter your local area code if you want calls in your local area to be dialed without an area code However if you want all calls to be dialed with an area code leave this field blank Local area code uses prefix For local area calls indicate whether you want no prefix used none or prefix 1 or 2 This setting applies only if you have entered a local area code Mail service Most users will select ActiveSync for their mail service However if you have another mail service set up such as a wireless modem service you can select that one to be used for outgoing emails You set up a mail service account in Start Menu Inbox Voice LookUp User s Guide page 41 Prune Thresh Prune threshold determines how aggressively LookUp discards unlikely matches Most users will not need to change this setting from its default value of 240 However if you experience long time delays between your speaking of a phrase and LookUp s returning a choice try lowering the Prune Thresh value See Appendix B for further details ApptAlarmMin In the scheduling calendar dialog there is a
53. you like you can use voice commands to spell names in the Findlt dialog or to enter data in the Edit dialog This method is slower than using the keyboard but can be useful if your hands are not free to type To use the voice keyboard you speak letters using the Alpha Bravo phonetic alphabet used by pilots and others in radio communication Voice LookUp User s Guide page 36 Phonetic alphabet In either the FindIt or the Edit dialogs you can hide the keyboard by tapping the kbd button This reveals a complete list of the phonetic alphabet characters which you can speak instead of typing the characters For example e type the letter A you would say Alpha to type the letter C you would say Charlie to type the letter L you would say Lima to type the number 0 you would say Zero to type a hyphen you would say hyphen Using the alphabet in the dialog In the Edit Dialog suppose you want to spell the name Greg Do the following the mic on and say Golf o Theletter G appears in the edit box and the mic turns off o Alist of possible other matches for your utterance appears in the upper left which you can select from if LookUp guessed wrong homeFax workTel 555 319 807 8 clearField exe zero123456789 atSignPeriodHyphenUnderscore AlphaBravaCharlyDeltaEchoFoxtrotGolfHotelIndi JulietKiloLimaMikeNovOscarPapaQuebecRomeo SierraTangoln

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