Unexplained CPU usage increase

I was just curious as to whether anyone else has ever encountered this. Sometimes after a few hours of having the computer on, and speech recognition running (not necessarily in use, but listening), I will start to notice a sluggish response to the Start Listening command. When I check task manager, and find speech recognition in the list, sure enough it has increased to 15% usage, and just stays there until I close the program and restart it.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?

Thanks for the information, Marty. I suspected that it must be something like that, but for me, the buffer never clears out. The only way I can stop it from lagging is to quit speech recognition and then restart it again. As I'm typing this, it is happening again, so I will wait and see whether the CPU usage goes down by itself.

By the way, would there be any way to change that buffer size?

Unfortunately for me, Marty, my keyboard days are over. I cannot physically use one anymore, which is why I must leave Windows Speech Recognition sleeping during those times that I don't have my hands on my mouse.

It's not really a serious issue, mostly annoying. I was just hoping that there was some easy fix. You know, I keep hearing that Microsoft is going to be updating the speech recognition interface, but it never seems to happen. :-(

Sixwheels,

Would it help to have a WSR macro that closes and restarts WSR and WSR Macros? I have one, but I don't use it very much and I think it may need to be revised a little to work with Windows 8.1. I could fix it and post it if that would be helpful.

-Russ

russ wrote: Sixwheels, Would it help to have a WSR macro that closes and restarts WSR and WSR Macros? I have one, but I don't use it very much and I think it may need to be revised a little to work with Windows 8.1. I could fix it and post it if that would be helpful. -Russ

Actually, that's not a bad idea, Russ. To solve the lagging issue I basically have to start Task Manager, end both tasks (WSR, and WSR Macros), and then restart them again. So, yes, a macro that would do that automatically would be quite helpful. :-) The problem I've found, though, is that just quitting Speech Recognition isn't always enough, because, for whatever reason, it still lingers sometimes. That's why I always have to use Task Manager.

Sixwheels wrote: Actually, that's not a bad idea, Russ. To solve the lagging issue I basically have to start Task Manager, end both tasks (WSR, and WSR Macros), and then restart them again. So, yes, a macro that would do that automatically would be quite helpful. :-) The problem I've found, though, is that just quitting Speech Recognition isn't always enough, because, for whatever reason, it still lingers sometimes. That's why I always have to use Task Manager.

Sixwheels, I will revise the macro and post it, but it may take a week or two. I don't currently have a Windows 8 computer because I returned mine this morning to its manufacturer and ordered a different one from the Microsoft Store. I'm hoping that the absence of bloatware on the new computer will increase its stability.

I'm not sure how the macro is exiting each program, but hopefully it will do it in a way that restores speech recognition to health on your computer.

-Russ