Speech Recognition Software
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I am writing a program of my own and I’m going to need to do documentation soon. To make that faster I enabled windows speech recognition because when it doesn’t make mistakes speech recognition is much faster than typing. However, at this point the accuracy rate is appalling. In fact it seems lower than a program I owned 10 years ago put out by IBM called Via Voice. However, Via Voice had you do about ½ hour of voice training for it and Microsoft doesn’t. Since all the voice recognition programs learn your voice over time and since little training was done with the Microsoft I suspect it will get better with time. So has anybody used it before and does it get much better? Has anybody used dragon before and the windows version and tell me which one is better? And just out of curiosity how well does Siri work? And just for kicks and giggles I will to write this same thing over again without making error corrections.
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I am writing a program of my own and I’m going to need to do documentation soon. To make that faster I enabled windows speech recognition because when it doesn’t make mistakes speech recognition is much faster than typing. However, at this point the accuracy rate is appalling. In fact it seems lower than a program I owned 10 years ago put out by IBM called Via Voice. However, Via Voice had you do about ½ hour of voice training for it and Microsoft doesn’t. Since all the voice recognition programs learn your voice over time and since little training was done with the Microsoft I suspect it will get better with time. So has anybody used it before and does it get much better? Has anybody used dragon before and the windows version and tell me which one is better? And just out of curiosity how well does Siri work? And just for kicks and giggles I will to write this same thing over again without making error corrections.
Just thought it would be funny to post the kinds of mistake Windows voice recognition makes if you don't correct the errors. Same message as above. I am writing a program of my own and I’m going to need to do documentation to. To make that faster I enabled windows speech recognition because when it doesn’t make mistakes beat recognition is much faster than typing. However, at this point the accuracy of rate to Spalding. In fact it seems slower than a program I own 10 years ago put out by IBM called be a voice. However, be a voice had you do about ½ hour of voices reading for it and Microsoft does that. Since all voice recognition programs learn your voice over time and since little training was done with Microsoft I suspect it will get better time. So has anybody used it before and it doesn’t get better question and just out of curiosity how well does see rework question And just for kicks and giggles I will break the same thing over again without making air corrections.
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Just thought it would be funny to post the kinds of mistake Windows voice recognition makes if you don't correct the errors. Same message as above. I am writing a program of my own and I’m going to need to do documentation to. To make that faster I enabled windows speech recognition because when it doesn’t make mistakes beat recognition is much faster than typing. However, at this point the accuracy of rate to Spalding. In fact it seems slower than a program I own 10 years ago put out by IBM called be a voice. However, be a voice had you do about ½ hour of voices reading for it and Microsoft does that. Since all voice recognition programs learn your voice over time and since little training was done with Microsoft I suspect it will get better time. So has anybody used it before and it doesn’t get better question and just out of curiosity how well does see rework question And just for kicks and giggles I will break the same thing over again without making air corrections.
mikemarquard wrote:
So has anybody used it before and it doesn’t get better question and just out of curiosity how well does see rework question
:laugh: It didn't actually do too too terribly bad for the most part... It sure didn't know what to do with "Via Voice" but apparently it had no problems with "Microsoft"! Good post. Keep us appraised of its progress as it gets more familiar with your voice...
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
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I am writing a program of my own and I’m going to need to do documentation soon. To make that faster I enabled windows speech recognition because when it doesn’t make mistakes speech recognition is much faster than typing. However, at this point the accuracy rate is appalling. In fact it seems lower than a program I owned 10 years ago put out by IBM called Via Voice. However, Via Voice had you do about ½ hour of voice training for it and Microsoft doesn’t. Since all the voice recognition programs learn your voice over time and since little training was done with the Microsoft I suspect it will get better with time. So has anybody used it before and does it get much better? Has anybody used dragon before and the windows version and tell me which one is better? And just out of curiosity how well does Siri work? And just for kicks and giggles I will to write this same thing over again without making error corrections.
I used Dragon Naturally Speaking more then 10 years ago and I must admit that I was highly impressed by its accuracy. It was exceptional and way ahead if its time, much better than today's voice recognition programs. The only thing where it lagged behind was when it came to recognizing numbers. I would rate it 95/100 for word recognition and 60/100 for number recognition.
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I used Dragon Naturally Speaking more then 10 years ago and I must admit that I was highly impressed by its accuracy. It was exceptional and way ahead if its time, much better than today's voice recognition programs. The only thing where it lagged behind was when it came to recognizing numbers. I would rate it 95/100 for word recognition and 60/100 for number recognition.
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mikemarquard wrote:
So has anybody used it before and it doesn’t get better question and just out of curiosity how well does see rework question
:laugh: It didn't actually do too too terribly bad for the most part... It sure didn't know what to do with "Via Voice" but apparently it had no problems with "Microsoft"! Good post. Keep us appraised of its progress as it gets more familiar with your voice...
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
It's actually improving I think because the first letter I tried to write with it it would frequently get every single word of an entire sentence wrong. Actually I didn't expect it to get Via Voice right even though I tried to add it to the dictionary but if you look closely it made a lot of mistakes. Funniest one I think was appalling became Spalding :-D. If this thing doesn't improve I will probably try dragon but I'll let you know how it goes.
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Thanks for the info. If the windows stuff doesn't improve rapidly I'll probably buy that. Thanks.
I use Dragon myself, and it works wonders. I tested Windows Speech system and Dragon's, and found a lot of errors with Windows' system, even after several hours! The error rate seemed to go UP with Windows! Dragon, though, went straight down in error rates.