Speech recognition

[Steven Vollom]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> 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
>
> http://what-is-what.com
> http://gibberish.co.il
> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>   
Years ago, I used Naturally Speaking.  I would read as I wrote.  When I 
saw a mistake, I would immediately say 'correct that', it gave choices 
with a number before them.  I would then say 'take 3' if the third 
choice was correct.  It always worked well and rarely slowed the 
dictation much.  It sure was a lot faster and more accurate than 
typing.  I misspell words more than the program did.  When I changed to 
Linux, it was one of the programs that I missed the most, but not 
enought to keep XP on my machine.  In any event, I have heard that the 
newest versions have corrected most of the errors that I experienced 
before and have ironed out most of the problems I read that you all talk 
about.  Recently, I heard that Wine, the Windows emulator, works well 
with Dragon Naturally Speaking, I have considered purchasing the current 
version.  I would still like to hear from someone using Naturally 
Speaking on Wine before I spend the $100 to purchase.  I hope this 
information is useful.

Steven Vollom