Re: wireless mic + voice recognition (+ handheld scanner?)

"onetitfemme" <onetitfemme2005@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> by the way, when I said "these mic + STT (Speech to Text)

I use that STT acronym too, and TTS for text to speech.

By the way. If you want to ingest text from your computer, you can
use TTS to free your eyes while doing other things. That can be
useful especially for reading long boring/technical documents. The
best combination might be TextAloud MP3 with whatever version of
IBM's ViaVoice installed. TextAloud picks up the IBM voices (voices
originally produced by Eloquent Technologies). I wouldn't count on
ViaVoice for speech recognition though. I just install it and then
delete everything except a few TTS related files.

>
> combinations" I meant; do these digital recorders actually record
> people's voice TOTALLY SEPARATE from the later OCR phase?

I don't think you mean OCR. Isn't that an acronym for Optical
Character Recognition? I realize what you're talking about that
though, taking the voice recording and transcribing it to a text
file.

But again, I would emphasize the idea of going with a digital
recorder without worrying about speech to text. A digital recorder
is user-friendly. Speech to text is a bear. Text to speech is also
valuable and user-friendly (however bad you think it sounds) for
listening too long documents that are on your computer.

Try speech-recognition (NaturallySpeaking 7 or 8) but don't throw
everything out the window if it isn't immediately useful to you.

> .
> If I have to record people who speak language X, for which I
> don't
> have an OCR program, I would like to still record just their
> voice.

Yes. A digital recorder is just like a tape recorder. The
price/quality point has just about surpassed tape recorders. But the
benefit of a digital recorder is enormous in that you can randomly
access your audio recordings which are kept in separate folders.
It's an excellent hands-free note taker.

By the way. The digital recorders I pointed you to have an earphone
output which can be simply plugged in to your sound card input using
a stereo miniplug to stereo miniplug wire that you can get at the
local megastore for five dollars. Then you can start the digital
recorder playing and start your computer wave editor recording if
you want to transfer the file. Some digital recorders include a USB
port which accomplishes the same thing but maybe easier and faster.





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