If you just want to try it out to see what it would be like, Windows has
had a speech recognition application built-in since Vista. I'm sure it
isn't as full-blown as Dragon, but you could get a taste of the beast.
You do have to train it to your voice, just like Dragon. The setup is in
the Control Panel under Ease of Access.
Jerri
On 7/16/2014 11:05 AM, singhals wrote:
> Ditto, ditto, ditto!
>
> I thought it would be useful for entering material from an
> old newspaper. Wrong.
>
> From what I can make out, in the US you need to be a
> native-born speaker of "midwest" -- the lack of accent most
> Network TV announcers have -- working in a fairly
> sound-proof environment for vox-rec to work properly.
>
> I do know people who speak American-midwest, who have
> radiant heat, who can't live without vox-rec.
>
> As a quik'n'dirty comparison, the initial output of
> vox-rec's I've tried frequently looks like an OCR'ed version
> of a carbon copy of s document typed on a Smith-Corona.
>
> Cheryl
>
> Sherry/Support wrote:
>
>> For some reason I have never done well with any
>> ​voice recognition system.
>>
>> Phone trees which require vocal input don't work for me
>> ("Dec 14 1956" comes out "you said June 6, 1934, correct?")
>> and voice dialing on my phone ("Call Home") usually looks
>> for the wrong person ("Call Ron").
>>
>> ​I was in a Microsoft usability study years ago for voice
>> recognition and the results were interesting, to say the least.​
>>
>> And I have a pretty benign accent and enunciate clearly!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Sherry
>> Technical Support
>> Legacy Family Tree
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Brian/Support
>> <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> I do have Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 on my computer, I
>> tried to use it
>> to dictate emails 4 years ago when I was undergoing
>> cancer treatment and
>> I thought it might help. I never found it terribly good,
>> or I just did
>> not have the patience to train it well, so I stopped
>> using it. I have
>> never tried to use it with Legacy for data entry so I
>> had no comment on
>> your request.
>>
>> I might sign up for that webinar, maybe it will convince
>> me to give
>> Dragon another try.
>>
>> Brian
>> Customer Support
>> Millennia Corporation
>> [email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
>>
>> On 15/07/2014 6:12 PM, Scott Hall wrote:
>> > I'm assuming no response means no one on this group
>> is using Dragon?
>> > <sigh> Hate to wait until December. Sherry/Brian et
>> al. ... any other
>> > resources I can tap into on this topic?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Scott Hall
>> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I'm looking forward to the webinar on this very
>> subject, but as it is not
>> >> until December, I was hoping someone might be
>> willing to converse with me
>> >> about how they've successfully used Dragon to input
>> data into Legacy.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>>
>
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