Re: voice recog/dictation recommendations?

You might be interested in this link then - mainly established to help
programmers who have contracted RSI to use their voice to get the job done
but it will obviously work for people who still have the full use of their
hands.

http://voicecode.iit.nrc.ca/VoiceCode/public/wiki.cgi

Dragon NS is a great product - I have used version 5 for some years now,
mainly to help my wife (teacher) get her school reports done. The most
important thing when attempting voice recognition is the quality of the
microphone. If you buy the base Dragon NS package then you will have to get
a decent microphone (with noise cancelling etc). The link above will
probably provide help, but a search on Google will quickly result in
recommendations from people who use packages such as DNS. Don't think you
can get by with a $20 mic - it won't work and you'll end up blaming the
software. The quality of the microphone makes all the difference between
something like DNS working and it not working - the "environment" is also
important i.e. a noisy environment will play havoc with speech recognition.
I find it works best is a relatively quiet setting...

Peter

"Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff.hamann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've been thinking about trying some of the voice recognition
> tools/dictation tools as much of the text I have to type is mostly the
> "blathering on introduction stuff" and would *really* like to start
getting
> the text out as fast as I speak, or at least much faster than I type. I
> wanted to ask the group if anyone could recommend a tool that allows me to
> dictate into emacs (or almost anything for that matter) with sufficient
> responsiveness. I don;t need the text to be perfect as my typing is most
> horrible. I;ve looked at the shorttalk homepage and was pretty impressed.
i
> don't want to purchase dragon NS only to find out that i spend more time
> "explaining" the my machine what I meant to say, rather than simply
spewing
> my babble... i can edit that (the bable) later...
>
> thanks,
> jeff.
>
>
>
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> Jeff D. Hamann
> Forest Informatics, Inc.
> PO Box 1421
> Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421
> 541-754-1428
> jeff.hamann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.forestinformatics.com
>
>


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