Speech recognition

[Steven Vollom]

David Fletcher wrote:
> At 02:58 04/07/2008, you wrote:
>   
>> I read another response in this forum and it was suggested that Dragon
>> Naturally Speaking 9 works good in Wine, the Windows emulator.  I
>> haven't as yet tried it, but I am going to.  I used to use Naturally
>> Speaking for all my word processing.  It works super.  The programs that
>> I use using Wine work the same as they do on Microsoft OS's.
>>
>> Steven
>>     
>
> I'll certainly be interested in seeing a result on this, but I'll 
> reiterate that its intended use is for writing a book. I'm told that 
> book publishers generally don't thank authors for submitting work as 
> word processor files of any sort, but are very happy indeed to 
> receive LaTeX files.
>
> Having had a play with LaTeX over the last couple of weeks and found 
> out how to duplicate my standard letter writing layout with it, I've 
> found that the best editor so far is kate - it knows the LaTeX syntax 
> so it can run the spelling checker properly i.e. it makes no attempt 
> to spell check the formatting instructions.
>
> So, if it's possible to run Dragon under Wine, with the dictated text 
> going into kate, that could be the way to go.
>
> Dave
>
>
> Dear Dave,
I am curious.  Are the publishers dissatisfied because the dictated work 
is sent in saved data form?  I mean, if they were to read the book 
printed on paper, how would they know if the document was dictated from 
a word processor.

The primary reason I used Naturally Speaking was to keep from making 
errors, not save paper.  I believe you can format or even use a 
publishing format and still use Naturally Speaking. 

It has been so long since I have used Microsoft (also I am getting older 
and the memory is getting soft) that I can't remember the publishing 
program that I used for Microsoft processors, but it worked with the 
same quality using Naturally Speaking as when I was just dictating an 
email.  You had the ability to include photographs.  You could have the 
page numbers automatically entered and type on both sides of a sheet.  
It appeared to produce publishable work from a saved file. 

I am probably over my head in this conversation, because I am not an 
author, but I used the program for similar private purposes and had 
success.  I am not trying to sell Naturally Speaking either, it is just 
my experience with an older version was much better than the comments I 
have been reading in the forum.  Including error corrections, I believe 
I worked at over 100 words per minute.  That is a lot faster than I can 
type (and I don't type error free).

Steven