Re: re Speech recognition software

"Wes Groleau" <groleau+news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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).
>
Only the first time you use them. At work, we use a lot of dog latin for 
microbial names, at home my Scottish and South African family history 
provides all sorts on interesting words. Once I've used a word  and
trained 
the system, it copes the next time. My office word files even include 
spatterings of Dutch words (eg the address of my office) without any 
problems.
Lesley Robertson