Speech Recognition
http://live.pirillo.com/ – Is Windows Vista speech recognition any good? Chris has used almost every speech recognition package, and he has yet to be impressed.
The speed recognition software built into Windows Vista isn't that bad. Of course, it isn't that great either. It does a fair job as long as you have a quality microphone and you speak clearly – no thick New York accents here.
The problems, of course, show up when you try to pronounce acronyms or companies such as "Ustream." You need to train the software to understand what you're saying, so it ends up being more of an annoyance than being anything practical.
If you're serious about using voice recognition (or you must use it because of a disability), then really consider getting Dragon Naturally Speaking, a much more powerful software package than what Microsoft includes with Windows Vista.
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July 17th, 2007
at 7:24am
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Hugoton Horatio
July 20th, 2007
at 12:56am
Until speech recognition gets as good as the types they’ve used on such
shows as Star Trek and in the Star Wars movies, they don’t have
diddley.
My is a medical transcriptionist who has been in the business of trying to
figure out what doctors are saying as they dictate for over 25 years and
there hasn’t been a speech recognition software yet that can beat the
trained ear of a good transcriptionist.
Just too many dialects to take into account in all languages and all parts
of countries from which people come that create certain linguistic
characteristics that make writing such software nearly impossible.
She can usually figure out what the doctor said by relistening several
times, then knowing the speciality of the doctor and given her 25 years
experience, she knows the difference between the drug name he just
used and the surgical implant with a similar name to the drug.
Even by training a system with ‘one’ doctor is only a miniscule step in
the larger picture of the grand scheme of the technology.
I-user
July 24th, 2007
at 4:50pm
I have yet to be impressed as well. I’ve used Dragon Naturally Speaking (both an OLD and a new version) and still am disappointed at the results. Albeit recognition has greatly improved there is still room for much improvement. Optical Character Recognition has made huge leaps and bounds as opposed to speech.
BTW I don’t like speaking punctuation, etc. to the recognition software, either!
James Sharpshooter
February 20th, 2009
at 2:53pm
What do you mean there is no good speech recognition chris? the live chat cant wait to type something out for you all you have to do is say “chatroom please type: (insert sentance here)” and watch the chatrom type
lol