Dave... I am not aware of any voice recognition software that is capable of doing what you are seeking. NaturallySpeaking requires a voice profile (created by completing at least minimal voice training) for the active user to recognize dictation. NaturallySpeaking and I'm betting other voice recognition software cannot manage punctuation independently. You must speak commands like period, comma, new paragraph, new line, etc. While NaturallySpeaking is amazingly good at determining the correct form of a dictated word like "to" (which could be too, to, two or 2), it isn't perfect by any means. The other big thing that any automated system could not do (at least yet) is distinguish different speakers and label the caption for the respective speaker. All of these things is what makes closed captioning rather expensive, since they require human input. If there is something out there that can do most of this automatically, I will be thrilled and the Media Department where I worked will be event more so. Steve
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 2:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [QUAD-L] Closed Captioning Hi All, I may have already told you, I was asked to join our Mayor's Council On Persons with Disabilities and have helped them set up a web site at AccessGlendaleAz.com <http://www.glendaleaz.com/boardsandcommissions/CommissiononPersonswithDisab ilities.cfm> . One of the projects they (we) would like to address is helping our local TV station with closed captioning. This activity turns out to be pretty expensive. I was wondering why they couldn't use something like Dragon Naturally Speaking to help with this task. Do you think that program or something like it might be of use in such an application? Thanks in advance. Dave Visit My Home <http://www.users.qwest.net/~daveoc/index.html> Page _____ See what's free at AOL.com <http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503> .
