Re: Voice Recognition

["V Ghyoot" vghyoot@xxxxxxxx]

Voice recognition is wonderful for creating large amounts of unformatted text, as for first drafts of  textbook chapters. You can sit back with your feet up and allow your subconscious to create, unrestrained by keyboards and fingers and upright postures. Voice recognition is especially useful when an irritating bit of writing has to be done, and you do not feel like
typing it.

Accuracy on ViaVoice is above 95%, and the program quickly learns the phrases you use regularly. Via Voice does not seem to work in XyWrite for Windows, though. Will try Dragon Naturally Speaking.


Valmond Ghyoot



On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Robert Holmgren mailto:holmgren@xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:10:28 -0500



Sounds like fun.  Hey, it IS kinda fun, I got IBM Via Voice to

run XyWrite years ago.  My mobile even has it, for note taking.

But actually useful?  Instant messaging maybe, that's about it.



It seems to me, if you want to talk, use the phone.



Voice recognition is not liberation; you still stare at a screen.



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