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| 3017.1 | | SKYLAB::FISHER | Gravity: Not just a good idea. It's the law! | Wed May 28 1997 13:13 | 6 |
| Lot's of people seem to use Dragon Dictate these days.
I don't think it has special hardware. Of course, computers are
so much more powerful, h/w is probably less important now.
Burns
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| 3017.2 | | WRKSYS::CHALTAS | Who asked me, anyway? | Wed May 28 1997 13:44 | 7 |
| Dragon Dictate does not use any special hardware.
It's fussy about what type of microphone you use, However,
it comes *with* a microphone, so that's not a problem.
What costs the most seems to be vocabulary. Also, you'll want
a lot of memory (16 MB min?) so that all that vocabulary can
reside in memory. Looking it up on disk takes too long.
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| 3017.3 | | SMURF::PBECK | Paul Beck | Wed May 28 1997 13:56 | 3 |
| >Lot's of people seem to use Dragon Dictate these days.
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------ and it probably wouldn't do this ...
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| 3017.4 | | PCBUOA::DESHARNAIS | | Wed May 28 1997 14:03 | 8 |
| Thanks for the inputs!! Also just saw something called VoicePilot,
which is in the $70 range. I suspect, however, there's a vast
difference between these $70 packages and the $300 ones. Just don't
think she's in a position to spring $300.
Thanks again for the inputs!
Ron
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| 3017.5 | Navigation vs. Dictation. | JULIET::HARRIS_MA | Networks Sales Exec | Wed May 28 1997 16:03 | 13 |
| VoicePilot tends to be very useful to PC/Keyboard navigation. Thinks
you'd normally CLICK on.
Dragon DIctate and many of the current others are for spoken text
dictation. They are suffer from the requirement for a pause between
each word. Do you see what I mean?
IBM has been showing in limited fashion their first version of their
soon-to-be-available version of speech-flow recognition. No pauses
required. I saw a limited demo several months ago and it was vastly
superior to the pause method. It will be more $$$ however.
Mark
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| 3017.6 | | WRKSYS::INGRAHAM | Andy | Wed May 28 1997 18:17 | 7 |
| I heard that one of the products, forgot whether it's Dragon's or
Kurzweil's, offers a greatly reduced price version, that is made for any
one particular Windows application program of your choice (i.e., WFW,
Lotus, etc.).
The implication seems to be that it's somehow crippled to not work well
with other programs.
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| 3017.7 | Continuous Speech! | RICKS::PHIPPS | DTN 225.4959 | Wed May 28 1997 22:12 | 9 |
| Look at http://pbol.com/voice_recognition/index.com .
Select Continuous Speech! and look at Dragon NaturallySpeaking. You can
download a demo of it. If you want to spend the $600+ for DragonDictate
Classic or Power editions you get NaturallySpeaking free.
If it works like the demo, it is worth the money. JMHO.
mikeP
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| 3017.8 | | STAR::BALLISON | | Thu May 29 1997 10:23 | 6 |
| The (well at least an), IBM speech recognition package is in the
current PC Mall catalog for $79. There are also Dragon and Kurzweil
packages on the same page.
Brian
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| 3017.9 | Dragon Dictate works for me!!! | PAMSRC::ARENDT | Harry Arendt PAMSRC:: | Thu May 29 1997 14:04 | 12 |
|
There is a Dragon dictate conference in digital somewhere. I can
personally recommend DragonDictate for direct keyboard replacement
for most applications. I am a DragonDictate user. This note was
dictated using DragonDictate. I can dictate at over 40 words per
minute. The error rate is very low and correction is very easy.
I had a repetitive stress injury and I believe that the use of
DragonDictate was very helpful in my rehabilitation. I would never
have a computer without it.
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| 3017.10 | www.kurzweil.com | DANGER::ARRIGHI | and miles to go before I sleep | Thu May 29 1997 17:45 | 3 |
| You can download an evaluation copy of Kurzweil Voicepad from the above
URL. It learns your voice characteristics while you use it and seemed
to work pretty well with a generic microphone.
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| 3017.11 | | PCBUOA::BAYJ | Jim, Portables | Fri May 30 1997 13:32 | 6 |
| Just to save someone else some trouble when they go looking, cound you
change the name of this thread to "speech-to-text software"?
^
jeb
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| 3017.12 | re: .11 - done | TARKIN::LIN | Bill Lin | Fri May 30 1997 22:40 | 0
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