https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=8de3c900-986f-404d-b0c8-c64d27b2a2fa VoiceBot RSS: Nahimic Audio Breaks VoiceBot Functionality Wed, 20 May 2026 04:08:15 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=8de3c900-986f-404d-b0c8-c64d27b2a2fa https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/View/nahimic-audio-breaks-voicebot-functionality/?ID=8de3c900-986f-404d-b0c8-c64d27b2a2fa#4 Mon, 04 Dec 2017 17:07:34 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/View/nahimic-audio-breaks-voicebot-functionality/?ID=8de3c900-986f-404d-b0c8-c64d27b2a2fa#4 VoiceBot Oh, that's definitely relevant I think! I will pass this along to our devs so that they can look into this further. Thanks for your help in tracking this down! ]]> https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/View/nahimic-audio-breaks-voicebot-functionality/?ID=8de3c900-986f-404d-b0c8-c64d27b2a2fa#3 Sun, 03 Dec 2017 16:07:58 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/View/nahimic-audio-breaks-voicebot-functionality/?ID=8de3c900-986f-404d-b0c8-c64d27b2a2fa#3 VoiceBot I reinstalled the MSI bundle with the Realktek driver and Nahimic 2.5.18, and updated Nahimic to the latest directly from the company itself, 2.5.23. The update did not resolve the problem, still the same behavior with the timeout. The Nahimic driver has nothing specific to speech recognition in the Microphone tab. That tab contains Voice Shaper with treble and bass boosts, a Voice Leveler, and Noise Suppression.

However, I tried an experiment, and it definitely is the culprit. I stop the Nahimic process from the start bar status icons, and use task manager to stop anything with "Nahimic" in it, and then VoiceBot starts working again without a problem until I reboot.

It seems that as soon as the Nahimic process is stopped, VoiceBot can "hear" commands again. What might explain this behavior, from what little I know about the Microsoft Speech Engine, is that the Nahimic driver changes the default input stream from SetInputToDefaultAudioDevice() to another valid input pipe for the Speech Engine, like SetInputToWaveStream(), that VoiceBot is not expecting or listening to?

Now that I know what this is, I can work around it. Cheers, and thanks for making VoiceBot! ]]> https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/View/nahimic-audio-breaks-voicebot-functionality/?ID=8de3c900-986f-404d-b0c8-c64d27b2a2fa#2 Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:01:10 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/View/nahimic-audio-breaks-voicebot-functionality/?ID=8de3c900-986f-404d-b0c8-c64d27b2a2fa#2 VoiceBot We've had a couple of other customers run into issues with the MS Speech Engine timing out, but we were never able to track down what was locking the speech engine. Now I'm wondering if they're also using that Nahimic Audio driver

Does it have any settings regarding speech recognition or anything like that? ]]> https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/View/nahimic-audio-breaks-voicebot-functionality/?ID=8de3c900-986f-404d-b0c8-c64d27b2a2fa Wed, 29 Nov 2017 01:40:28 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.voicebot.net/Discussions/View/nahimic-audio-breaks-voicebot-functionality/?ID=8de3c900-986f-404d-b0c8-c64d27b2a2fa VoiceBot Just an FYI for the community, and a query to anyone if there is a workaround that I am not able to find.

I bought VoiceBot yesterday on steam, and was looking forward to using it, as I have used voice assist programs before, starting with Game Commander almost 20 years ago.

I have been experiencing the strangest problems, starting with Voicebot taking 5+ minutes to load the Options menu, with the messages in the highest level of logging stating that "A task could not complete because the Speech Recognizer engine had timed out." which should have nothing to do with the Options menu?

In addition, VoiceBot would highlight commands spoken to it when it was the active window, yet would stubbornly refuse to do anything when another program was being run, including acknowledging that it "heard" the command.

I did a lot of troubleshooting, and the fix I eventually got to was to uninstall the Nahimic driver from MSI, version 6.0.1.8279. On the basic/included windows audio drivers, VoiceBot works perfectly.

I searched the discussions back for a few pages, and did not see anything about the Nahimic chipset & drivers not working with VoiceBot. Is there a workaround besides uninstalling Nahimic?

V/R ]]>