Voice Recognition Software

[ldapkus]

What do you use and how do you like it?

[jrivera]

I wish this place would have a moron recognition something or other....lol

Mic

[Doug Edwards]

Linas,
I use one; Dragon Naturally Speaking (ver 9). I just finished up 4 reports in about 4 hours (that included stopping for lunch and a couple of breaks). I just loaded this version on my new laptop and it takes it a while to learn your voice, inflections, accents but it rocked along pretty nice. You just have to be a little patient and learn how to use it and it gets better the more you use it. Hope that helps.

[ldapkus]

Thanks Doug, I read RR's posts about it and found it for a good price at Amazon and look forward to Tuesday for it's delivery. This can pay for itself in one day's worth of pecking away at the keyboard. I thought RR was good at keyboarding and finally realized he was rambling on into a mic and sucking down a margarita on Black Beach.

[Doug Edwards]

You are welcome. Do yourself a favor, get a good microphone. The el cheapos are not worth the aggravation or the discomfort when wearing it.

[ldapkus]

Thanks Doug,
I'll get a good headset.

[kmcmahon]

On RR suggestion Tried Dragon 8, tried it again, and tried it again...if I want to do a report, I do it myself..much faster...sitting on my shelf now collecting dust. JMO

[Stephen W. Stanczyk]

Originally Posted by jrivera

I wish this place would have a moron recognition something or other....lol

Mic

MORON ALERT....MORON ALERT

hows that Mic?

[Russel Ray]

Originally Posted by ldapkus

I read RR's posts about it and found it for a good price at Amazon and look forward to Tuesday for it's delivery. This can pay for itself in one day's worth of pecking away at the keyboard. I thought RR was good at keyboarding and finally realized he was rambling on into a mic and sucking down a margarita on Black Beach.

Well, I am good at keyboarding. I used to type over 300 words a minute and did 358 (I think it was) in a 5-minute typing test (standard for the time) with one error--I misspelled my name. I can still type 100 words a minute with no errors, but I just can't do it for very long. I do my best typing at 2:30 in the morning after a hot, hot shower while The Beatles are playing on the CD player.

After I had totally destroyed my fingers by typing so fast and so hard for decades (I started typing when I was 5), and, of course, playing the piano and the violin, I found it painful to type for an extended period of time. A very good friend, now the Director of Texas A&M University's Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship, recommended VRS, Dragon Naturally Speaking specifically.

The first time I used it was frustrating, really frustrating. It made more errors than the vote counters in red states. But I stuck with it and it learned. Just like formerly red voters in formerly red states. I now could not do without it.

I have it on many computers, each one set to recognize a specific voice. For example, my main computer recognizes my common voice. My secondary computer recognizes my two-margarita voice. My tertiary computer recognizes by cold/flu voice.

My main computer now has about 99.5% accuracy after two years, far better than I could ever do at this stage if I were typing. And since I talk fast, I get so much done. I know it causes jealousy, envy, spite, hate, and shallowness among some people here because I'm able to help so much while still have very profitable businesses with employees, but that's their problem, not mine.

Nonetheless, I have V8 and am apprehensive about upgrading to V9 because I don't want to take the chance of having to make it learn again. I'm quite satisfied with 99.5% accuracy.

Whenever you're reading my posts at NACHI and find a typo, it's because I went to edit something manually--change a word, change a sentence, etc.--and screwed it up. There are times when one can simply go do an edit rather than telling the program to open all the menus, etc. But keyboard shortcuts also come in very, very handy.

If you think it will work overnight, no. It's kind of like marketing. You'll have to bop it over the head 20 times before it will listen to you. . However, if you are a start-up with little business, I highly recommended getting VRS now so that you have time to work with it. And then, even though it seems slow, don't give up. Keep working with it. By the time you get really, really busy, you won't know that you're really, really busy because you'll be getting so much done with VRS!

Ta-Da!

[Russel Ray]

So you used to think that I would actually type long posts like that, huh? Ha!

[Russel Ray]

Originally Posted by dedwards

You are welcome. Do yourself a favor, get a good microphone. The el cheapos are not worth the aggravation or the discomfort when wearing it.

The el cheapos, such as the one that comes with DNS, are okay if one is in a perfectly quiet office with no interruptions from anyone. If you want to listen to The Beatles, or have the dialogue on while watching Star Trek, or expect to be constantly interrupted by the barking dogs and meowing kitty cats, or expect the kids and spouse/domestic partner/significant other to come bop bop bopping in, then definitely get a better microphone.

[Russel Ray]

Originally Posted by kmcmahon

On RR suggestion Tried Dragon 8, tried it again, and tried it again...if I want to do a report, I do it myself..much faster...sitting on my shelf now collecting dust. JMO

Kevin's the only one I know of who didn't have success with it.

[ldapkus]

Thanks
RR and everybody else.

[jrivera]

Whe Stephen, I feel better now

Joy to the world, all the boys and girls..........la-de-da-de-da

Mic

[staylor]

Anyone have a recommendation on the best microphone? Also, is a wireless mic available?