atw: Re: speech recognition software

Hi Christine (K)
From what I hear, Nuance (formerly known as Scansoft) Dragon Dictate is reputed to be the finest commercial product of its type and is very highly regarded (and in use in many high end legal firms).
Certainly, in my experience, their PDF Creator / Converter Professional software that I use absolutely aces Adobe Acrobat Pro for a fraction of the cost and resource hungriness.
My recommendation would be to see if they have an evaluation version for download and give it a go. 
(Results on Vista might vary.)
BTW, once you've used their PDFing software (which does the most astounding MS Office conversions (to and from) even "opening" PDFs in Word and Excel after converting them according to your preferences, and how much faster it PDFs large documents you'll never go back to the later Adobe bloatware again, which hasn't been much chop since they dropped the Acrobat moniker. 

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Micky G.
Write Ideas

At 08:48 19/08/2008, you wrote:

Hi Guys
I keep getting advertising from Nuance for their new speech recognition software, Dragon, and am questioning whether it is now time to make another leap from ?old? to ?new? technology. Last I knew anything about it, speech recognition software was heavy going and almost impossible to ?tune? with anything other than an American accent.
Their advertising ?So imagine how much more productive you'd be if your everyday tasks no longer involved typing. Most people type about 40 words per minute but speak more than 120 words per minute. What if you could create email, documents and spreadsheets simply by speaking? Or control your PC just by talking to it, starting programs, using menus, surfing the Web? That would be pretty amazing. And fast.?
Does anyone know if these claims are now actually true? Imagine the benefits for us if it is! 

And these claims
??
Create and edit documents and spreadsheets by voice
?
Quickly send email and instant messages
?
Quickly search the Web and your desktop by voice
?
Format and correct text by voice
?
Use a single voice command to insert blocks of text or graphics, like your name, title, logo and signature 
?
Easily proof your documents with dictation playback
?
Dictate into a handheld recorder for transcription later
?
Enjoy up to 99% accuracy - more accurate than the most skilled typists?


Regards
Christine




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