On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:58:59 +0100, "Lesley Robertson"
<l.a.robertson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>"Wes Groleau" <groleau+news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:T9lrj.3887$0B2.3565@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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
>
Word 2003 and earlier has speech recognition built-in. Word 2007 must
use the Vista built-in speech stuff. Both work fine at my work.
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