Dave Bib wrote:
Contacted IBM before asking Open Office. They say they are no longer
supporting Via Voice & referred me to Nuance, which apparently has
distribution rights. Nuance answers are very ambigious
(e.g..."should work" & "works with several programs"). Further
research has indicated that Naturally Speaking by Dragon may be
better program & I am leaning towards that one, but once again no one
is SURE it will work with Open Office.
I use NaturallySpeaking, I use open office. Let's just say that nuance
hates handicapped users. They have major bugs they have left unfixed
for three or four years. If you don't absolutely positively need speech
recognition (i.e. because of a handicapped), do not send them any money.
Monopolies should never be fed.
Having said that (and being someone who absolutely positively needs to
use speech recognition), you can use open office with NaturallySpeaking
but you have to do it in a really fragile way.
Direct dictation won't work well because for God knows what reason, it
appears recognition accuracy drops as processing time of keystrokes
increases. If you don't have a special program to handle that condition
as nuance has with Microsoft Word, your user experience is going to suck
and Word will look like a better option all the time.
However, if you use the "dictation box", it will work well with open
office. You will get higher recognition accuracy, faster recognition
etc.. However, here are a couple of things you need to watch out for:
Keep your hands off the enter key.
The enter key will automatically try to inject text into the application
associated with that dialog box.
the dictation box is not an editor
The dictation box is not an editor. You can make changes at a very
simple level but be careful.
using Select-and-Say
You will not have Select-and-Say in open office. That's part of that
special program support nuance created for Microsoft. Now if open
office used one of the special rich edit controls nuance supports for
Select-and-Say, there would be no problem.
the dictation box is not an editor
Don't dictate a whole lot without transferring it to open office. There
is no backup, no recovery, and no way to get back anything if you use
the dictation box wrong.
The dictation box is not an editor
Got that right? The dictation box is not a editor
One good thing about Microsoft is that they are actively participating
in the handicapped community and they should be thanked for that.
Whether they will do anything good or not, I'm hoping for good stuff but
bracing myself for disappointment.
---eric
speech recognition in use. It makes mistakes, I correct some.
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