voice recognition

[Anonymous]

Can anyone recommend a good voice-to-PC dictating device I could use?

Thanks!

[Paul@Pittsburgh]

What about a Pocket PC?

Paul

[Anonymous]

I have used Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile (Dragon has branded a digital recorder to go with the set). It all works nicely together. I did have to get a better 3rd party mike for the mobile unit. I also bought a better 3rd party mike for the PC.

This is not an easy area to enter--be sure to do your homework. There may be newer and better than what I bought several years ago (although I do keep the Dragon up to date).

Good luck,

[sholden]

[quote="flamme"]I have used Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile (Dragon has branded a digital recorder to go with the set). It all works nicely together. I did have to get a better 3rd party mike for the mobile unit. I also bought a better 3rd party mike for the PC.
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I have also used Dragon Naturally Speaking for Windows pretty successfully.

Get a digial mic/headset like from Plantronics.

If you have kids playing round your work area (like I do at my home), it won't work very well

Steve

[Anonymous]

Thanks, all. I bought Dragon Naturally and will now try to use it!

Donna

[enriquer]

If you don't happen to have a PDA which can do this .....Sony and Olympus make digital dictation devices you can get from under $70 that do a good job.

Then you'd have to go with Dragon software to do the conversion right.

[MarkChristensen]

I've been tempted to play with voice recognition - but have been concerned with the accuracy. I'm a pretty good typist - is the accuracy good enough that it will beat typing? Last I looked, 95% was kind of the top end of state of the art - but that means correcting 1 OUT OF 20 WORDS!

Does this match what folks here who are using the technology are finding?

Thanks

Mark

[andersons]

. . .have been concerned with the accuracy. I'm a pretty good typist - is the accuracy good enough that it will beat typing? Last I looked, 95% was kind of the top end of state of the art - but that means correcting 1 OUT OF 20 WORDS!

Does this match what folks here who are using the technology are finding?

I have heard my father dictating to his Dragon software; I can type faster than that. And I am not that great a typist (self-taught). A few months ago, he called me to dictate a long letter for me to type, and I constantly had to wait for him to catch up to me -- he's so used to dictating that slowly for the Dragon. And yes, 95% accuracy is as good as it gets, after you "train" the software. So by the time my dad fixes the many errors, I could have typed the thing twice.

However, for someone like my father, whose hunt-and-peck includes a lot more time hunting than pecking, I guess the software is useful; I'm not always available to take dictation for him. If you can type even halfway decently, don't even bother.

-andersons

[dumbaugh2]

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This is my first post.

I am posting by use of the Dragon software; and I am intentionally not going to crack any errors, so that you may observe its accuracy (or in accuracy, and you judge it).

I'm speaking in a normal speaking voice, or, perhaps, 10% slower.

I've been using the software for about one month now, and I have found it extraordinarily useful.

On the other hand, I'm quite a poor typist.

I made no corrections to this tax. You be the judge.

Dave

[TesTeq]

I think we cannot judge the speech conversion accuracy without hearing the sample of your voice .
I know many people that I have to ask to repeat what they've just said all the time .
I know other people that I can understand always .
TesTeq