On Fri, 16 May 2008 Lesley Robertson <l.a.robertson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
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>"John Bennett" <johna.bennett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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message
>news:u$eH7GB6IVLIFwUI@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 Wes Groleau <groleau+news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>John Bennett wrote:
>>>> I am shortly hoping to embark on the task of transcribing a large
1872
>>>> diary, written in neat copperplate style handwriting. Is there any
>>>> software out there that will read (at least maybe some of) it by
>>>> scanning/OCR?
>>>
>>>If it's very neat, OCR might work, but there will still be a lot of
>>>errors to correct. I think you'd get fewer errors and be almost as
>>>fast by getting the cheapest version of Dragon Naturally Speaking
>>>and just reading the thing into the microphone.
>>>
>> I hadn't though of that, thanks.
>
>I use Naturally Speaking a lot, at home and work. It's frustrating for
the
>first day or two as you have to train it for place names. Also watch out
for
>words that sound alike (starry nights and knights in ****ning armour, for
>example).
>I would hate to have to do without it, it's a better, faster typist than
I
>am, despite its limitations.
>Lesley Robertson
>
I think that Vista/Office 2007 (that I now have) has built in voice
recognition software. I will definitely try it out as this is obviously
the most simple and sensible resolution to the transcription problem
(how I wish I had thought of that first:-).
Cheers John
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John Bennett
Email john(dot)bennett(at)smartemail(dot)co(dot)uk
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