When I pinched my nerve group in my neck in January 2007 I had terrible pain in my left arm that radiated down into my left hand and all fingers & thumb. Now it is just perpetually numb <g>. But I started to use Dragon Speaking Naturally to handle my non-programming input (eMail, letters). It worked far better than an earlier version I tried, then returned because it sucked so much. But, that said, even the version I picked up in 2007 had a few minor glitches. In fairness, as the software adapted to my speaking mannerisms the glitches and errors became less pronounced. But, I still had to edit anything I spoke into the system for errors. But, I can assure you it is not something you want to have as a tool for taking notes in a meeting with more than one person speaking, or where there is a lot of inconsistent background noise )papers rustling, folks coughing, etc.). Maybe the computer used by the crew of star Trek have a system that can handle that, but that is a way off in its development <g>.
Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:profoxtech- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] Audio to text conversion > > 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 > [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 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.
