[LegacyUG] Dictation question

2011-06-24 Thread Erin Bradshaw
In Vista and Win7 one is able to dictate to most any file that takes text. My question has anyone tried this with Legacy? Is it possible? Erin Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009:

RE: [LegacyUG] Dictation question

2011-06-24 Thread Kevin Long
[mailto:eb_pa...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 2:24 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Dictation question In Vista and Win7 one is able to dictate to most any file that takes text. My question has anyone tried this with Legacy? Is it possible? Erin Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] Dictation question

2011-06-24 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 24/06/2011 22:23, Erin Bradshaw wrote: In Vista and Win7 one is able to dictate to most any file that takes text. My question has anyone tried this with Legacy? Is it possible? Can't say my tests were extensive - it's too near my bedtime for that - but I just tried dictating into an

Re: [LegacyUG] Dictation question

2011-06-24 Thread Wes
-Original Message- From: Erin Bradshaw [mailto:eb_pa...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 2:24 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Dictation question In Vista and Win7 one is able to dictate to most any file that takes text. My question has anyone tried

Re: [LegacyUG] Dictation question

2011-06-24 Thread Wm Voss
will do that. If it will it would be cheaper than DNS. Let us know. Kevin Long -Original Message- From: Erin Bradshaw [mailto:eb_pa...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 2:24 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Dictation question In Vista and Win7

Re: [LegacyUG] Dictation question

2011-06-24 Thread Erin Bradshaw
I am using it on Vista to transcribe 19 chapters of a autobiography written by my husband's great grandfather in the classified ads of his local newspaper. If you take the time to work through the speech recognition setup so the computer gets used to your speech idiosyncrasies then it works very

Re: [LegacyUG] Dictation question

2011-06-24 Thread Erin Bradshaw
Actually, I know I couldn't properly pronounce them in the first place so I'd type those. But if you say spell it and it's something you know you'll use a lot, you can choose to add the word to it's memory. Of course, there will always be times that you just couldn't dictate. I am sure that in