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Okey doke. So I've got the new PC and laptop. One of the things I was going to try out--from curiosity, because it might be useful--was speech recognition software and dictating to my machine (Looby Loo, too). So there's Dragon NaturallySpeaking and IBM's ViaVoice that I know of. Are there others? What's good? What's not?


What I want to be able to do is to dictate into a word processor/text editor other than MS Word. Or FrameMaker directly, since that's where most of my words go. Interaction with a browser--Opera/Firefox--would be good as I'm using both Writerly and Google Spreadsheets fairly regularly and expect to use the latter much more frequently. So the requirements aren't huge and complex, but my choice of software is non-standard (or is that simply, non-Gatesian?).

Date: 2006-09-06 04:14 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] hobbitblue.livejournal.com
I'm not sure about the software side of things but be aware training these speech things to get the words right can take ages, especially if you have a timbre of voice or an accent that it doesn't care for, because of that factor I always found I had to speak so carefully and slowly it was faster to type, but hopefully that won't be an issue for you, or the modern ones are less picky or have better hearing! The Dragon one used to be the preferred choice but that was several years ago, things could have changed...

Date: 2006-09-06 04:27 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] hobbitblue.livejournal.com
*passes over sword and armor, or chair and whip, as preferred*

Hehehe, a high voice is probably good, I've a low sexy one and I don't think it was clear enough, so I never got far enough to work out if it couldn't follow my weird pronunciation!

Date: 2006-09-08 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] six-old-cars.livejournal.com
I don't think anyone could ever describe my voice as "sexy" but when I tried Dragon I had the same trouble. Training (which took forever) went reasonably OK, but in actual use it failed big time. And, of course, when it did something stupid I became either amused or frustrated, either of which was enough to shift my tone just that little bit away from the utterly bored I had been while training it, so it made even more stupid mistakes.

So in all, it was fun to try, but typing is a lot quicker.

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