I have speech recognition on my laptop, I was just wondering what other people think of it? We have not had much success yet. My husband has done all the voice recognition exercises and for some reason it understands me better. My friend's doesn't understand her at all (she is convinced it's because she's from Birmingham!) It is funny as you tend to end up shouting at it, to get it to understand. If you forget it's on and it's still listening, the laptop starts to act like a computer possessed as it's picking up on noises taking taking them as a command. Obviously you have to learn the proper commands to make it understand anyway. My son who works in IT and well up on computers uses his but still gets trouble sometimes. I love my gadgets but I'm not that fussy on this one! Well I think it's a bit lazy anyway but I can see the advantage to some people, people with limited sight maybe. Well give me the old fashion manual way anyday! What do you think?
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You might be aware by now that the speech recognition software uses the pitch and clarity of the words to understand and convert it to letters. If you speak little faster (or) speak fuzzily then the software won't understand your words. Some people have such a nice pitch and clarity (and right amount of time between the sentences) that the software recoginizes everything. This is the disadvantage which speech recognition software has today.
I think it depends on the version you use. Dragon naturally speaking 9 is the latest Dragon version, and it's supposed to be pretty good, but I haven't seen it in action yet. A lot of the other ones can be frustrating, and require LOTS of time spent in getting it to recognise you.
It's good to have if you can't use a keyboard or mouse, though, at least you can navigate the internet and email.
The versions will improve, I have no doubt.
I tried it because I hate typing. I used the free one built into XP. IT took countless hours to 'train' it and it hated my regional accent, so I ended up doing loads of editing and gave up on it. Some of the errors it made would make me laugh then it would try to type it...
If I couldn't type at all I'd use it, but I'm learning to touch type instead and its easier!
Hello Dave.
Don`t like anything that answers back at me, ha ha, sounds good though babe.