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

Based on the output from my friend, mentioned earlier, the software has no
difficulty with punctuation, hperlinks, adding graphics, and so on and so
forth.  Anything I can do on a computer, with full use of eight fingers and
two thumbs, can be done with equal proficiency by someone relying only voice
recognition software.  I assume the quality of the software and the extent
of training received contribute to the quality of the output, exactly like
any other app.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:02 PM, <Howard.Silcock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> 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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>  *"Kathy Bowman" <Kathy.Bowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>*
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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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> *From:* austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx  [mailto:
> austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Donald  Halley
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 20 August 2008 10:44 AM
> *To:*  austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* atw: Re: speech recognition  software
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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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> *From:* austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx  [mailto:
> austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Kathy  Bowman
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 20 August 2008 10:21
> *To:*  austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *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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Carolyn Hart

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