HI Mike.
I've not actually tried the speech recognition engine in Win 7 although
did
the Vista engine and it wasn't too bad.
Terry Clasper.
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David and Terry,
I have just looked at the Wikipaedia page for this subject and
discovered there is a quite advanced speech recognition engine built in
to Windows 7. I have just run through the setup and training, reading
the text prompts into my boom mic.
I haven't attempted to actually use it yet and I must say that for the
first time I have begun to ask myself some searching questions...
I am a software writer to the very core. This lady is a software
developer and is losing the use of her hands. As I type this email at
about 45 words a minute, I am asking whether I would swap my hands for
the return of my vision. And I think the answer has to be no.
I am going to try to write the good old 'Hello World!' application in C
without using the keyboard and mouse. Of course I can't see either,
which this lady can, but I guess it can be done.
Mike
On 03/01/2013 20:43, David W Wood wrote:
Thanks for updating my knowledge!
I last tried it about 3 or so years ago, obviously things have come on a
load more since then!
ATB
David W Wood
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David.
Sorry absolutely not the case anymore.
For sure you can train it, but with Dragon 11.5 and even earlier you
absolutely do not need to sit and train it if you don't want to.
Often these days people start off by not doing the training and with a
basic
voice profile, then after a while they will either do training or use
some
of the other tools provided in the software, like presenting documents
for
analysis etc.
There are many ways these days to get the software very quickly to do
what
you want without copious amounts of time sitting in front of the computer
talking to it!
Terry Clasper.
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Mike
It still needs training, and the more you do at the early stages, the
more
accurate the transposition.
ATB
David W Wood
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Terry,
Very helpful indeed. Is the product now known as 'Dragon Dictate'? I
think it was called 'Dragon Naturally Speaking' before.
The only experience I have of this is from about fifteen years ago when
the software needed a lot of training to recognise a voice.
This lady is not visually impaired but her needs as a software developer
are probably a little different from somebody just writing plain
English. e.g. she needs to be able to say 'left curly brace' and have
'{' appear instead of the words.
I will have a look on Amazon to see how much this software costs.
I presume this is the kind of thing that ATW might pay for if she asks
her employer to investigate.
Mike
On 03/01/2013 19:52, Terry Clasper wrote:
HI Michael.
Yes, by far the leader in computer based speech recognition is Dragon
and
for sure over the past few years its come on in leaps and bounds.
The current version from a recognition perspective gives very high
levels
of
accuracy literally without any voice training. What I mean by that is
the
days of having to sit and read text to the computer are now long gon!
Depending on whether your friend is visually impaired or not, you may
need
to look at the screen reader accessibility sie of things, and that in
turn
may mean you need to consider the higher priced professional dragon
product,
however if not then for sure you can get a Dragon product very
reasonably
priced that will effectively assist in text computer input.
Hope that is of some help?
Terry Clasper.
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Hello list,
I know a lady who is a programmer. She is suffering with a condition
which is going to make typing more and more difficult.
I have suggested to her that she might like to investigate options as
far as speech recognition software goes.
Does anybody on the list have any experience of this and have anything
to say about it?
The only name I have in my head is 'Dragon'.
Mike
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