How do to conversion of units

[noicevoice]

Sorry if this has been asked before and I couldn't find it. I tried searching for a few keywords but didn't come up with anything.

What I want to do is conversions of units, for example imperial to metric speed or the other way round.

What I tried to set up is
1) prefix "convert"

2) suffic command "test"
Play sound, '{VA_SOUNDS}\Speech Signal High.wav'
Start Dictation Mode (Clearing Dictation Buffer)
Pause 4 seconds
Stop Dictation Mode
Play sound, '{VA_SOUNDS}\Speech Signal High.wav'
Say, '{DICTATION}'

And that part works. What it does is when I say "convert test" it beeps, I can dictate, it waits 4 seconds then stops the dictation, beeps again and reads back what it caught.


Now I got three questions:
1) is there a better way to handle the dictation duration other than pausing 4 seconds?
E.g. if I say twenty (20) version twohundredsixtyninethousandfivehundredthirtyone (269531)

2) is there a way to dictate in single numbers and get the end result as one number?
E.g. if I say one two four two >> 1342

3) How do I go about converting the dication buffer to a different unit so that Say, '' can read out the converted result?
E.g. if I dictate a number in km/h and want to convert to knots,
1km/h is roughly 0,54 knots - is there a way how I can use a formula like:
{DICTATION}/*0,54


Sorry if all this has been asked and answered before. 

[Pfeil]

1) is there a better way to handle the dictation duration other than pausing 4 seconds?
E.g. if I say twenty (20) version twohundredsixtyninethousandfivehundredthirtyone (269531)

You can wait until something has been dictated:

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Start Dictation Mode (Clearing Dictation Buffer)
Start Loop While : [{DICTATION}] Equals ''
End Loop
Stop Dictation Mode
You can also use that method to wait for a keypress:

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Start Dictation Mode (Clearing Dictation Buffer)
Start Loop While :  Keyboard Key 'Enter' Is Not Pressed
End Loop
Stop Dictation Mode


2) is there a way to dictate in single numbers and get the end result as one number?
E.g. if I say one two four two >> 1342

You can speak up to six digits at a time and they'll be interpreted by the speech engine as a single number; Any more than that and it'll assume you're trying to dictate a phone number.

If you want to pause between each digit, you'll have to convert from text to numbers, as the speech engine will write them out(E.G. 1 will be recognized as "One").

Alternatively you can use the "Wait For Spoken Response" action, which will return numbers if specified(E.G. "[0..9]") to append a text value, though this option is only suitable for single digits or small numbers(it is restricted to a maximum of 250 different responses for performance reasons).

3) How do I go about converting the dication buffer to a different unit so that Say, '' can read out the converted result?
E.g. if I dictate a number in km/h and want to convert to knots,
1km/h is roughly 0,54 knots - is there a way how I can use a formula like:
{DICTATION}/*0,54

You can convert the dictation text to a numeric variable and use the "Computed value" option relevant to that variable, but what you're describing can be done using the "{EXP:}" and/or "{EXPDECINV:}" tokens(VoiceAttackHelp.pdf page 144 to 147).

E.G.

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Say, '{EXPDECINV: {DICTATION} * 0.54}'


[noicevoice]

Thanks a lot! Had trouble setting up EXPDECINV first but that was due to me being on v1.7.2 - as soon as I updated to v1.7.3 it worked perfectly.

That documentation is really amazing by the way - if you know what to look for.

Will try and do some more research to fix my two remaining issues:

• It converts to high resolution numbers, e.g. 10.x instead of "just" 10
• "Repeat" doesn't work because of the way I set up "Start Dictation Mode (Clearing Dictation Buffer)" - since it repeats the whole command chain it clears the buffer and doesn't repeat the output

I will experiment with maybe clearing the buffer after a pause´of a few seconds.

Thanks a ton for the help! That has been invaluable.

[Pfeil]

1. It converts to high resolution numbers, e.g. 10.x instead of "just" 10

The simplest way is to convert to integer:

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Set integer [~converted] value to the converted value of {EXPDECINV: {DICTATION} * 0.54}
Say, '{INT:~converted}'

You can also convert to a decimal value, in which case you can use the "Round value to decimal places" option.

2. "Repeat" doesn't work because of the way I set up "Start Dictation Mode (Clearing Dictation Buffer)" - since it repeats the whole command chain it clears the buffer and doesn't repeat the output

Assuming "Repeat" is a "When I say" value, you can check whether that's been spoken and react accordingly:

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Begin Text Compare : [{CMD}] Equals 'repeat'
    Say, '{EXPDECINV: {DICTATION} * 0.54}'
End Condition - Exit when condition met

If you're using prefix/suffix(in which case I'd recommend looking into "Dynamic command sections", as those can be much more flexible) you'll want to use "{PREFIX}" or "{SUFFIX}" instead of "{CMD}".