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Table of Contents Why the Name? what's this all about, eh? FAQs Dragon Problems - Crashes, Hangs, Freezes Most Recent 2022-03-25 Code Snippets Yet another Reasons I hate GitHub - colons in wiki page names 2022-03-24 Problematic Applications 2022-02-08 Windows 11 and Speech Recognition Finding Stuff in This Wiki Problematic Applications Catch-All

Why the Name?

what's this all about, eh?

I (Andy Glew, Ag) have long been threatening in places like the KnowBrainer forums to create a wiki and GitHub repository to collect BKMs and code stuff related to speech recognition.

BKMs = Best Known Methods

"Code Stuff"

Example code
- Dragon or KnowBrainer basic
- AHK
- etc.

Pointers to and discussion about more comprehensive speech packages like Dragon, KnowBrainer, DragonFly, Vocola.

Obviously, discussion in the wiki, code in the repo, with the usual crap that should be in the wiki but needs to be in the repo for stupid reasons.

FAQs

Dragon Problems - Crashes, Hangs, Freezes

Most Recent

2022-03-25

Code Snippets

Yet another Reasons I hate GitHub - colons in wiki page names

GitHub allows wiki page names to be created that contain colons in them.

However, the GitHub desktop tool on Windows dies --- because colons are not allowed in Windows file names.

I know, it's just one of the standard problems, and one might reasonably blame Windows and not GitHub. Nevertheless, many many wikis do not have this limitation.

Anyway, I just went and quickly renamed all of the pages in this wiki that had: their names. but of course this will have broken links, because GitHub wiki has no renaming support

2022-03-24

Problematic Applications

2022-02-08

I am obviously not doing this very assiduously. After using Atlassian Confluence I am finding the GitHub wiki is a pain. -- and I don't like Atlassian Confluence. But let me try again, with a timely item: ... Windows 11 and Speech Recognition ...

Windows 11 and Speech Recognition

Should we upgrade or wait?.

Finding Stuff in This Wiki

Ideally every wiki page would be organized in a table of contents that has a logical arrangement and/or referenced from some other wiki page, so that starting from the root of the wiki, Home in this GitHub wiki, all pages could be enumerated.

Unfortunately this GitHub wiki does not have automatic tools to create and maintain such a table of contents, as far as I know.

The list of (almost) all pages in the wiki that appears in the sidebar does not seem to have any useful logical arrangement.

I find it a hassle to maintain such links by hand. I have written external tools in the past, and will probably provide such a tool in the code repo for this wiki, but have not yet. Such tools could be run on a git clone to a local file system. In other wikis I ran them server-side. it is not clear if this could be done by GitHub workflow automation.

In the meantime, some of the wiki pages added here will probably be orphaned, findable only by search. Too bad. Motivates resuscitating my wiki link maintenance tools and TOC generator.

BTW, here is the first actual content page: Training Custom Words is Usually Not Needed. Yeah, I have linked here, but I suspect I will not always do this because it is a hassle that is easily avoided by the appropriate tools.