Re: Y&R Victor's Revenge

On Dec 16, 9:58 am, Shirl <Xmnusha...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
record hunter <record.hun...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm not sure I've made myself clear, Shirl. What I'm wondering is
whether Leopard's built-in voice recognition system will operate
Microsoft Word *voice-activatedly,* the way Naturally Speaking does
with Word in Windows.

Oh, ok...I see what you're asking now.
Does it do that, Elmer?

Shirl (haven't used "Say Command" with my cellphone, either)

I've just started to play around with Leopard on one computer so far.
The built-in Speech Recognition feature is for issuing commands to the
operating system such as "Move Page Down" or "Copy This to the
Clipboard". By itself, you can't just start talking and have it type
everything you're saying.

The $800 NaturallySpeaking software does not come in a version that
runs directly under OS X (although you could probably run it using
Parallels). Another program, IBM-ViaVoice does come in an OS X version
for $129, but I don't know how it's features compare with
NaturallySpeaking. If you seriously want to know more, let me know and
I'll ask around.

My point mentioning how nice it is to develop software for Max OS X
wasn't that you would necessarily write software yourself, but that
because it's easier than Windows, there's lots of other people who are
writing customized software and offering it up cheap or for free. The
newest version of the operating system added new voice recognition
features that developers are likely to implement quickly. I should
think there'll be new software that's better than either ViaVoice or
NaturallySpeaking appearing before too long.

Sure, to many people a computer is a computer is a computer. Just like
a car is a car is a car, or a soap opera is a soap opera is a soap
opera. If all you do is check email or browse a web page a few times a
month, then you'd probably not appreciate the difference. If
reliability and ease of use is not important, than a poorly designed,
uncomfortable and inefficient car would probably suit you as well. If
you have plenty of time to waste doing nothing useful, then spending
your life watching boring soap operas all day long might be all you
expect. Me, I've got better things to do!

If your computer's working just fine and you're happy with it, then of
course there's no reason to consider changing. But when it's time to
think about a new machine, you owe it to yourself to consider
alternatives. I've no investment in Apple, and I'd guess Shirl doesn't
either, but we don't like to see friends get ripped off. If we didn't
care about you, we wouldn't bother to point out our observations.

Elmer

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