Re: Speech recognition software shareware

Does Dragon or Viavoice also work to input the data into genealogy software

programs like Legacy or FTM? The only programs listed on the box are word 
processors, email and the like. If so, what genealogy program do you use
and 
how steep is the curve to input the names?
\Thanks
"Wes Groleau" <groleau+news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Everett M. Greene wrote:
>> If anyone can solve this problem, I'd like to hear about it.
>> I have an umpteenth generation Xerox copy of a hand-written
>> family genealogy of significant size...
>
> I have various do***ents of varying quality.
> My grandmother typed her father's family history
> for him, and then added to it--using a Selectric
> ball that no OCR seems to cope with.  Other do***ents
> are faded or hand-written.  If they won't scan, I put
> on my headset and read them into ViaVoice.
>
> Even with genealogical material--lots of names of people
> and places, not in the program's dictionary, AND interference
> from noise in the house, I still manage to average 1200 words
> per hour including time for corrections and "retraining" the software.
>
> Dragon Naturally Speaking is better than ViaVoice.
>
> -- 
> Wes Groleau
>
>    I've noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming
>    intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared
>    from the common culture.  Near as I can tell, this coincides with
>    the release of MS-DOS.
>                                  -- Larry DeLuca