"Anne Brick" <annise@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:mailman.3151.1202464555.4586.gencmp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Soory I seem to have confused people - what I want to do is read large
> quantities of letters to the computer and for it to produce me a text
> file so that the contents of the letters can be shared amongst the
family.
I found your query perfectly clear.
> I know there is a commercial program - Dragon naturally Speaking that
does
> this , it also has a lot of othher bells and whistles that I don't need
,
> so I was hoping there might be a simple shareware version.
The problem with speech recognition is that the quality of the programme
is
very im****tant, especially if vocabulary outside the normal run of daily
life is concerned. Since I get RSI, I tried quite a few before settling on
Dragon, but I must admit that I haven't treid the one that MS is packaging
with some of their programmes. My office pc is running XP, and I see that
it
has it (go to the Control Panel and look for "speech". Dragon comes in a
range of forms from very basic to profession (and expensive). What you
could
do is watch the discount bins at computer shops (or places like Amazon)
for
older versions - I'm currently using ver 7.3 which handles scottish place
names, etc, very well.
Lesley Robertson
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