Re: Dictation software

Rob Morley wrote:
In article <4369007c$0$27969$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...


GB wrote:

I've generally been pretty disappointed with dictation software, but
I want to try again, in the hope that it's improved. The choices seem
to be Dragon and Viavoice. Any ideas which is best?

BTW, I am not too interested in the bells and whistles, just accurate
transcription. In the past, I was getting 90% to 95% accuracy, which
meant that virtually every sentence had mistakes in it. Does anyone
know if accuracy has improved in the past 5 years or so?


Even if it is 99% acurate there'll be a mistake on every sentence!


So all your sentences have at least a hundred words? 

No, no! It works perfectly for 99 people, then not all for the 100th :-)

(That's a semi-serious comment, btw. These things *can* have trouble with some voices; quoted "accuracies" may or may not include "difficult speakers").

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