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Me - 12 Jul 2007 22:30 GMT

Is anyone here familiar with or had any experiences with voice recognition
software? Typing is becoming difficult.

I'll post this on some computer message boards, as well.

Thanks

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Donald Whitely - 13 Jul 2007 00:48 GMT

Do you have a Mac or a PC?

Don W.

> Is anyone here familiar with or had any experiences with voice recognition
> software? Typing is becoming difficult.
>
> I'll post this on some computer message boards, as well.
>
> Thanks

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Me - 13 Jul 2007 03:59 GMT

> Do you have a Mac or a PC?

I have a PC.

> Don W.
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>> Thanks

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Dave - 13 Jul 2007 10:50 GMT

> I have a PC.

I use voice recognition software extensively, because I have arthritis
in my hands. I'm using it to create this message now.

I have a Mac, these days, and I use iListen as my voice recognition
software. I have, in the past, worked on PCs as well. The program to get
for the PC is Dragon Naturally Speaking. I'm not sure that it has any
competition, these days, but it is an excellent program.

One thing you'll find, if you get Dragon, or any other voice recognition
program, it will tell you you have to do a certain amount of "training"
to get it to recognise your voice. That's fair enough. It shouldn't take
more than a couple of hours.

The training to use this software doesn't stop there, though. Once
you've done this initial session, then you'll find, over the next few
weeks, you're still having to train the program to recognise what you're
saying. You'll also be having to train yourself to speak in a way the
program understands!

If you'd like to talk about this further then feel free to E-mail me on
dave@DavidOSmith.co.uk.

Cheers for now,

Dave

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Diane - 13 Jul 2007 14:50 GMT

I've used the Dragon in the past when my RA was bad in my hands. I'm
a writer and type all the time. I still have Dragon on the computer
for when I need it. I've had less success with voice recognition than
Dave, probably because I don't use it all the time. It does need
ongoing "training" and even with a 98% accuracy rate, if you type 250
words per page, that's 5 wrong words per page, so I need to follow
what I write constantly or else it can be hard to find the words
because the program won't do anything a spell checker can check.

i know I've shared this here before. Here's my favorite messed-up
sentence the Dragon gave me when I dictated a line from my novel into
it: "Panasonic's business decisions upset its chickens'
contraceptives." Thus, you can see why you need to keep an eye on what
it's typing!

Diane

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Me - 13 Jul 2007 16:23 GMT

> I've used the Dragon in the past when my RA was bad in my hands. I'm
> a writer and type all the time. I still have Dragon on the computer
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> Diane

Chickens' contraceptives? There's a joke in there but I'm going to keep my
mind out of the gutter. What were you trying to write?

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Me - 13 Jul 2007 16:25 GMT

>> I have a PC.
>
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> to get it to recognise your voice. That's fair enough. It shouldn't take
> more than a couple of hours.

I know that type of software needs training. Thanks for the lead.

> If you'd like to talk about this further then feel free to E-mail me on
> dave@DavidOSmith.co.uk.
>
> Cheers for now,
>
> Dave

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