> That's true, but it is amazing how much ugly you fit into that! ;-P >
Well, that's what I would call a fairly cheap shot. Actually I just said that to see how well this speech to text software would interpret my verbiage. I must admit that by this point I would've had three or four typos, had to have gone back, highlight, then correct the typos with (hopefully) adequate wording. Rather than bother my fellow Fox heads with my initial foray into the world of speech to text, I picked on a client of mine instead. I actually learned quite a bit from the "YouTube" clip that was sent to all of us the other day, more so than from reading the book so far. But the manual does have some pretty nice tips. I did take the time to go through the training, as opposed to trying to use the software right out of the box. Lynda (wife) had a good time tormenting me in the background, teasing me as I tried to get the machine to understand what I was telling it. Of course the Huskies have had a good time howling at me, chomping on their squeaker toys, and otherwise making background noises in an effort to impede my progress. Time for confessions of a madman. I only had a couple of places in the preceding text where I need to manually highlight and type in the words I wanted. For instance, "YouTube" comes out as "you Cuban". And my wife's name is spelled with a "y" instead of an "i" (I corrected these, and other little defects, psuedo-manually). These little edits are perfectly understandable, and so far acceptable characteristics I'm willing to live with. I am running the software on a 1.8 GHz AMD CPU with 1 GB of RAM (the sentence up to this point was entered perfectly), and the performance is more than adequate. It is almost a shame because I was hoping to have an excuse to replace this "older technology" with a faster PC and a few gazillion gig of RAM. Alas, that is not to come to pass anytime soon. This is almost too much fun. I find myself at this moment try to race ahead of the software to see if it can possibly keep up with my wording. Despite how well it is working for Outlook, and how well I expect it will work in Microsoft Word, I don't see how this could possibly get any significant value in cutting code in Visual FoxPro, Procomm Aspect, or any of the languages that I work with. Perhaps it can be done, but that is a battle to be fought another day. Okay, in judgment time. I give this software a cautious thumbs up. I'm still a little jaundiced from my experience back from the 1996/1997 time frame, when a previous version of this very software fell far short of my expectations and the claims of the software developers. If this application worked back then as well as it does now I can only begin to dream of where we would be at this point in time. Folks, I now wax philosophical. My apologies, not really. For the record I picked up this software from WWW.buycheapsoftware.com for $80 plus shipping. Yes, I did have to manually correct the URL, but only a little bit. Ciao! Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Leafe > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 2:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] Dragon Speaking Naturally app showed up... > > > On Feb 19, 2007, at 2:09 PM, mrgmhale wrote: > > > There is only one person in the ProFox > > group that I am aware of that knows what I look like. I do believe > > he (Ed) > > would (I hope) attest to my claim that my head is not excessively > > large in > > absolute or relative terms with respect to my body size. > > That's true, but it is amazing how much ugly you fit into that! ;-P > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
