ED Posted September 29, 2003 Report Share Posted September 29, 2003 Hello All I guess this question is for Azat or Sepean Would you please let me know if there is a good Voice activated typing program out there that’s worth baying? I have come across many and I need your advice guys, dragon is the one I want to buy, any suggestions? I thank you in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted September 29, 2003 Report Share Posted September 29, 2003 Do you have WinXP? I noticed win XP has something built in ... or maybe it's something that comes with office xp with voice recognition. I tried it once and it works pretty well. You have to train it a bit of course, just like any other good software. But I usually type faster than I can talk so never had any use for one of those things. I'm sure Azat knows more about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted September 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2003 Do you have WinXP? I noticed win XP has something built in ... or maybe it's something that comes with office xp with voice recognition. I tried it once and it works pretty well. You have to train it a bit of course, just like any other good software. But I usually type faster than I can talk so never had any use for one of those things. I'm sure Azat knows more about this. Thanks Sip unfortunatly? I have win 2000 pro, maybe 2000 has it and i dont now about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted September 29, 2003 Report Share Posted September 29, 2003 Haven't tried it, but you might take a look maybe........ http://www.simtel.net/product.php?url_fb_p...duct_page=70333 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted September 29, 2003 Report Share Posted September 29, 2003 Dear Edward, there are 3 speech recognition engines for the PC that are reasonably priced. Microsoft Speech Engine($0.00), Dragon(30-$100) and IBM Via Voice. The Application that Stormy was recommending uses the MS SR. They all are pretty good, but just not good enough for majority of users especially if you have an accent. I would say that Via Voice is the best of the 3 and is probably 90-95% accurate after a bit of training. Not too bad, but that means on a single page you are going to have about 5-10 misrecognitions. The best thing you can do is buy a nice microphone. Don't use the desk mics or the built in mics. Spend 20-40 dollars and get a nice Plantronics or Andrea head mic that has some noise filtering. It will improve the recognition alot. Also spend 4-8 hours on training the SR package you get. This too will increase the SR reliability. I wish you had asked this question few months back. I had access to free packages also mics. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 ... or we'll just ignore 1 out of every 10 posts Edward makes from now on, and it should all be good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted September 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 ... or we'll just ignore 1 out of every 10 posts Edward makes from now on, and it should all be good Thanks Stormy, Azat, Sepean, win 2000 has a speech recognition program, I just got my self a good microphone and it seems to work pretty good Sepean jan I will try to post as best and as tasteful as I can! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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