On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:58, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Zane Gilmore wrote: > [snip] > > > Speech recognition is not reliable anywhere. > > [snip] > > Yes it is. NCC1701, since the 60's, or was it early 70's? > > (: Score: 5 ( funny )
More seriously, the voice recognition offered on OS/2 by the IBM VoiceType and ViaVoice products was quite remarkable, particularly if you used the program most suited to your pronunciation. Unfortunately the Kiwi accent does not work very well with the standard USA version. I used Voice Type quite a lot and could produce a page virtually free of errors. Like only one or two at the most. It was debatable whether it was faster than typing, but for somebody who could not type because of some disability it would have been a God-send. It's the one product from those days that I actually miss in spite of looking a total dork telling my computer "Jump to emacs", and then dictating. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
