RE: XyWrite and voice recognition

["Frank Kenneth B." KBF@xxxxxxxx]

I tried ViaVoice also and agree-- it was terrible.

We would be very interested in doing integration work if any of those
systems were worth the effort. Ever since I got involved in technology
(around 1979) I have always been told that true voice recognition was "about
5 years away." I am afraid it's still on the horizon. (Sort of like our
beta disk.)

K.

-----Original Message-----
From: R Tennenbaum [mailto:raphaelt@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 1999 10:39 AM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XyWrite and voice recognition


On Sat, 2 Jan 1999 10:24:19 -0500, James D. Besser wrote:

>I'm curious: is anybody out there integrating (or trying
>to integrate) Xy / Dos with one of the portable voice recognition
>packages?
>
>Since I dictate about half my weekly writing output and
>transcribe myself, I bought Dragon's Naturally Mobile, which
>consists of the Naturally Speaking voice recognition
>software and a neat little digital recorder. When done
>recording, one links the little unit to the desktop with a serial
>cable and the dictation--up to 40 minutes worth--is
>downloaded and convered to text.

I hope it works better than the IBM ViaVoice software, which I tried as
part of a user test and seemed a bit useless -- marginally better than
OS/2 VTD. You have to slow down, and it really seems to do best for
office-memo types of language. As you say, as long as you have the
digital backup it could be pretty powerful, since even if you were
forced to back and re-edit the transcript you'd still only be using a
fraction of the time you would transcribing. Will be interested to hear
how it works for you.

-Rafe T.
raphaelt@xxxxxxxx
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