Re: Speech recognition software shareware

"Everett M. Greene" <mojaveg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
message 
news:20080207.79CA280.A110@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Lesley Robertson" <l.a.robertson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> "Dale DePriest" <Dale@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> > Anne Brick wrote:
>
>> >> I have a pile of letters written during WW1 by my father and his 
>> >> brother
>> >> and would like to be able to type them up for family distribution >
I 
>> >> am
>> >> a very slow typist and none of my children can read the older hand
>> >> writing.  Does any one know of a share ware program that I would be 
>> >> able
>> >> to try?
>> >
>> > If a person cannot read it then a computer program is unlikely to be 
>> > able
>> > to do it. Maybe you could teach your children to type.
>> >
>> The OP was aksing about speech recognition, NOT character recognition 
>> (see
>> the subject line). With speech recognition, the user reads the text 
>> aloud,
>> into a microphone, and the softweare does the typing. This message is 
>> coming
>> to you via such a system. I find it extremely useful, but it's not a
>> shareware programme.
>
> The OP said that his/her children couldn't /read/ the material.
> Recognizing spoken mumbles, hems, haws, etc. won't help anyone.

Read the original post (I've left it at the top for your convenience). OP 
wants to type them up because the children can't read them. Doesn't say
that 
OP can't read them, indeed the comment about being a slow typist impleies 
that the OP CAN read them.
Lesley Robertson