Sorehand- Voice Recognition

The Sorehand Chronicles: The best RSI info anywhere, from the people who've "been there, done that!"
Sorehand, by Topics- Voice Recognition

Copyright for all materials belongs to the original authors. Do not repost or reprint without permission from the author. Search for the author by joining Sorehand and posting a message or searching for their name.

pre

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date:    Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:33:24 -0000

Subject: Re: Full voice dictation

I always use Dragon NaturallySpeaking, I prefer it
to ViaVoice, and it suits my work better.  The question
here though is what is best for Paul.  I do though have
some points for Jeff (Paul, the point for you is at the
end of this post).

> The only drawback is that it is a little slower then I would like although
> my system is only a PII 400MHZ with 128M ram. I would think with a
> state of the art computer and twice the ram it would be great.

Mine runs fast on a PIII 650 with 256mb ram, but of
course I'd like an even faster cpu!

. Because I am a programmer I have to
> some typing

Have you checked out the voice-coders' list?  --
there are probably programmers who work hands
free using NaturallySpeaking Professional (perhaps
with Python, which also gives macro capability to
Preferred).
(I use Professional.)
See also www.voicedevelopers.org.

(for Paul and Jeff)
> I have not tried the other packages but have heard dragon is best for
> accuracy.

In fact, ViaVoice 8 probably has the best recognition
engine -- though there isn't much difference, really --
NaturallySpeaking is far better for editing and correction,
that makes the programs more or less equal, I would
say.  (I have not tried ViaVoice 8 and now I know it
does not work adequately with W2K, won't be trying
it.  I have used earlier versions of ViaVoice, their
accuracy was very good but Dragon's other features
decided me to stay with it.)

I can recommend NaturallySpeaking but do have to
lodge that point:  if Paul can't buy NaturallySpeaking
he shouldn't think he's ending up with an inferior
program (though again, I recommend something
better than ViaVoice _Standard_).

Finally people thinking of getting voice software
should check out the various voice lists and usenet
groups and forums, see page10.html

-=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=- -=*=-
Judy

pre

http://www.rsiprogram.com
Revised Nov 21, 2000