atw: Re: speech recognition software [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

A friend of mine did a PhD in mathematics and got RSI before she was due 
to write up her thesis, so ended up dictating the material using Dragon 
Naturally Speaking. Of course, she needed to include lots of quite complex 
mathematical notation and technical terms, and as far as I remember from 
what she told me she was able to 'teach' the software names for all the 
symbols and terms etc that she needed. There must be some way of 
indicating to the software that 'I am now about to say a name of some 
symbol', so it knows not to treat it as just another word to transcribe. 
But my impression talking to her was that there were ways of doing that 
kind of thing. So it must be quite flexible and I'm sure things like 
punctuation could easily be specified.

Howard




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Perhaps you could teach the application to recognise  'comma' as a ',', 
etc. Perhaps it already knows this, but the user did  not.
Kath 


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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Donald  Halley
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Couldn't you say the word comma or stop and then  do a search and replace 
later on.
 
Donald


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[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kathy  Bowman
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Subject: atw: Re: speech recognition  software

Someone at work used voice recognition software recently  following a 
shoulder operation, and it reportedly worked quite well, but  punctuation 
was almost non-existent. Are there tricks to including commas,  quotation 
marks etc?

Kath

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