Thanks for the flurry of responses. I already own Dragon 12 Premium ... but disappointingly, Legacy is not directly supported by it -- seems like I basically have to build a series of custom commands. I haven't experimented enough to know how involved this would be, but what time I've spent with the application thus far (on Word or Outlook) shows it responds well and accurately.
I was hoping that I could dictate the entry of new data into the Legacy database -- add a child, dictate their name, birth date, etc., flip to Research Notes, dictate some content, move to the next record ... I spoke with Nuance who assured me Dragon could be used with Legacy, and clearly the upcoming webinar proves it can be as well. I was hoping someone was already using it and could walk me through a mini tutorial on how to set it up -- the learning curve out of the box is a little high. Ah well, I'll just have to invest more time -- or wait until December! Scott On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Jerri McCoy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! > >> > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > > > > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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