Re: re Speech recognition software

Lesley Robertson wrote:
> Agreed. I also noticed a dramatic improvement when I upgraded to the 
> versions above 7. It still can't tell the difference between words the 
> same (eg knight and night) but it would be unreasonable to expect it to 
> do so. Proof reading and some correction will always be needed, but I 

They are supposed to be able to do that (to some extent) by context.
ViaVoice was successful.  I only had Dragon long enough to set it up and 
test it for a friend with Parkinson's, but it seemed to work better than 
ViaVoice.

Both are going to have trouble with names of people and places, more so 
if they are "foreign" names (relative to the language of your software).

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Wes Groleau

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