Speech recognition

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sat Jul 5 10:03:34 UTC 2008


> There are two ways to do speech recognition, though.  The generic way is a
> long way from identifying dialects and accents, but the other method allows
> individual users to train the program.  That should have little trouble
> with one person dictating a book, but often fails if you get a cold!  In
> either case, homonyms are going to be difficult.
>

The Dragon Naturally Speaking reviews call it 99.8% accurate for most
people out of the box, and it learns. You really should see the video
on their site. Apparently, it finds the context of a word by analyzing
a few words to the left and to the right, so it can properly type "the
bear's bare butt". If it works in Ubuntu, I'd pay $100 for it.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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