On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Andrew Stirling <[email protected]> wrote: > But from the Dragon site: > > Q. Can I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to transcribe interviews or meetings? > > No, Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a speaker-dependent system, meaning that > it trained to recognize the voice of a single user and cannot > distinguish speech from more than one speaker. People have no problem > understanding both Aunt Grace, who has a high, thin voice, and Cousin > Paul, who has a voice like a foghorn, because people can easily adjust > to the unique characteristics of every voice. Speech-recognition > software, on the other hand, works best when the computer has a chance > to adjust to each new speaker. The process of teaching the computer to > recognize your voice is called "training." ---------------------------------
They explained that well. they failed to say that their system before your hours of training will not be able to identify what you say either. :) I tried that long ago when a cpu was a 486, and the RAM was 2 meg. I bet it worksw much better today with better hardware and memory. It was miserable back then. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Web and Windows Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ 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 Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** 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.
