Here's the change for your 2 cents.
Ok, first of all, you're speech recognition engines are not the problem.
No SAPI compliant engines will work with Ultrahal.
MS SDK 5.1 runs just fine on my machine. It's in the system. I've been training it. It works with other programs. It recognizes random speech just fine.
The problem is that these Zabaware guys (gals?) did not design a properly functioning SAPI compliant piece of software.
Ultrahal is HYPER defective on several crucial levels. It seems to have major problems on many different systems with different configurations.
This is simply NOT acceptable as a commercial product in it's current form.
Yep, they have a pretty cool concept. But, they didn't debug it enough before distributing it as an allegedly viable commercial product.
The bashing is primarily due to MAJOR functions that simply will not work.
I paid good money for this and I damn well expect the speech recognition features to work. They don't. Ultrahal is STONE DEAF.
At this point I don't expect it to communicate clearly. I also don't expect to pay money and then get a super buggy program that repeatedly installs itself, clutters my registry info, and always say's it was "shut down improperly" after I have specifically used it's own "exit" function.
For Pete's sake, it can't even close itself properly without scewing things up.
This is why it's getting bashed. They are currently screwing everyone that pays for the product.
This will be true until they make a version that actually works.
