Voice Recognition

**Vuk** · 01-03-2010, 19:16

AARGH! Enough to drive one positively nuts! I have been writing great deals lately and my tendinitis has been causing me so much pain that I have been told by my therapist to stop typing any more than I have too. She told me that voice recognition worked really well for dictations and that I should consider using it. She said you can put text down twice as fast with it as typing, so I thought, what the heck, it is probably worth a try. After setting everything up and spending over two **** hours training that thing to recognize my voice, it still does not get half of what I say. I have been being really careful to pronounce everything I say clearly and to talk slowly, but it still get everything wrong. Even if it did get it right, with the load time it takes recognizing it and putting it down, I could still type much, much faster (I can literally type things almost as fast as I can speak them sometimes :P). I spend most of the time fixing the errors that it makes.
How can anyone use that crap?

PS Yes, this post was typed.

**Beskar** · 01-04-2010, 16:25

The are many variables -

The quality of your microphone.
The quality of your software. (Pretty much 'Dragon')
Correct pronounction and quality of your speech.

Then there are the other factors such as learning to use it, etc. I know some people who swear by them, others had bad experiences, generally because of inferior products when attempting to do it.

**Vuk** · 01-04-2010, 17:37

Originally Posted by Beskar

The are many variables -

The quality of your microphone.
The quality of your software. (Pretty much 'Dragon')
Correct pronounction and quality of your speech.

Then there are the other factors such as learning to use it, etc. I know some people who swear by them, others had bad experiences, generally because of inferior products when attempting to do it.

I have a very high quality karaoke microphone, and speak very good English. I was careful to pronounce everything loudly and clearly into the microphone. The only inferior product I can think of is that it was Microsoft's built in voice recognition.

**Vladimir** · 01-04-2010, 17:56

Microsoft's? You mean that horrible comedy of errors?

I think there is a video on youtube about a failed demonstration.

**Beskar** · 01-04-2010, 17:58

Yes, you don't use that. Then it is the 2nd possible problem/issue that I have listed.

You need to use a quality program, the one recommend to those who need to use this professional and for those with issues surrounding writing/typing is Dragon.

http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/