Great tips - thank you - sorry only just noticed the previous version is deprecated so I have now switched to using the Group version with regex - regular expression pattern matching working great - will use it in lessons with my students as the syntax for Regular Expressions is one of the things they have to learn.

nm it seemed to be a bug that fixed itself when I closed the program and reopened it!

Thankfully I teach in an area where hollering is not something that happens very often - usually they just get overexcited!

Sorry for the slew of newbie questions but I can't seem to get the simple task of disabling/enabling groups to work correctly. Here I've made some code to simply create 2 classes - but in reality I teach about 12 different classes of students. I've tried both disable all and only enable the group spoken but it doesn't seem to work. When I say "sammy/sami" to test the disabling is working correctly it types out both - even if I manually disable groups before saying anything and don't even choose a class. Please point out what I'm doing wrong!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<!--VoxCommando 2.2.0.7-->
<groupCollection open="True" name="Ada">
  <commandGroup open="True" name="Class 7W" enabled="False" prefix="" priority="0" requiredProcess="" description="">
    <command id="273" name="samm" enabled="true" alwaysOn="False" confirm="False" requiredConfidence="0" loop="False" loopDelay="0" loopMax="0" description="">
      <action>
        <cmdType>InputKeys.TextEntry</cmdType>
        <params>
          <param>Sammy</param>
        </params>
        <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
      </action>
      <phrase>sammy</phrase>
    </command>
  </commandGroup>
  <commandGroup open="True" name="Class 8S" enabled="False" prefix="" priority="0" requiredProcess="" description="">
    <command id="261" name="sam" enabled="true" alwaysOn="False" confirm="False" requiredConfidence="0" loop="False" loopDelay="0" loopMax="0" description="">
      <action>
        <cmdType>InputKeys.TextEntry</cmdType>
        <params>
          <param>Sami</param>
        </params>
        <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
      </action>
      <phrase>sami</phrase>
    </command>
  </commandGroup>
  <commandGroup open="False" name="Activators" enabled="True" prefix="" priority="0" requiredProcess="" description="">
    <command id="207" name="Load Class 7W" enabled="true" alwaysOn="False" confirm="False" requiredConfidence="0" loop="False" loopDelay="0" loopMax="0" description="">
      <action>
        <cmdType>VC.DisableGroup</cmdType>
        <params>
          <param>Class 8S</param>
        </params>
        <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
      </action>
      <action>
        <cmdType>VC.EnableGroup</cmdType>
        <params>
          <param>Class 7W</param>
        </params>
        <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
      </action>
      <phrase>Load Class 7W</phrase>
    </command>
    <command id="217" name="Load Class 8S" enabled="true" alwaysOn="False" confirm="False" requiredConfidence="0" loop="False" loopDelay="0" loopMax="0" description="">
      <action>
        <cmdType>VC.DisableGroup</cmdType>
        <params>
          <param>Class 7W</param>
        </params>
        <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
      </action>
      <action>
        <cmdType>VC.EnableGroup</cmdType>
        <params>
          <param>Class 8S</param>
        </params>
        <cmdRepeat>1</cmdRepeat>
      </action>
      <phrase>Load Class 8S</phrase>
    </command>
  </commandGroup>
</groupCollection>

Cheers - singing your praises on facebook - I've now managed to get Tasker setup with my Pebble and using Unified Remote to send URI commands of text strings to the computer which will allow me to activate and deactivate the processing of information received from VoxCommando via wireless bluetooth earpiece connected to my tablet in addition to allowing me to confirm or cancel operations via key presses on my watch (otherwise I'll have kids yelling at the computer for it to do things so I need a way I can select when it is processing what it hears or not=)

Exciting stuff!! (well to me

Wonderful! =) I think it'll take me a bit to get it fully integrated with my java app but I'm pretty sure I can do it =)

I've purchased the full version as your support/program design seems brilliant and great value. Thank you for producing such an impressive product with a well thought out trial version that doesn't force people into buying before they know if it'll do what they require.

Hopefully my secondary school computing students will enjoy the results! =)

Thank you very much for the informative reply! - I'm trying to use what you've shown me to get it to do what I'm after now - although when I copy and paste code from this forum into a blank xml file it seems to cause null errors.

Btw. is there a way to change state in Voxcommando - e.g. If I say "Change class 11C" - it nows to switch to use the 11C.xml class list and continue using that until I say "Change class 7A" at which point it changes to use the 7A.xml list of valid payloads? If this is not possible I can try to get my program to constantly rewrite the payload list xml file with the data I need when the class is changed but it would obviously be easier if this isn't required.

Many thanks all!

Darren

Sorry if this is a basic question but I am looking for basic speech to text functionality for adding to my virtual teachers assistant program i have created and voxcommando seems amazing, but I haven't quite got my head around it!

Basically I will say something like Jarvis log improvements James, Lily, Alan, Michael, up to about 10 names.the list of names will vary in length and i want to use an xml file to ensure the speech recognition has a decent chance of matching them. If I don't use xml the standard dictionary works ok but makes mistakes. Please advise me how I can use an xml containing my class list, with a varying amount of payloads being passed.

Thank you very much for any and all help!

Darren