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132650	2003-04-01 08:36:00	What do we think of speech recognition thus far?Or do we all like typing?	Thomas (1820)
132651	2003-04-01 08:46:00	Nah, I got a big update so i can use speech reconition for winme, but you need to do training (reading) with the program or it wont work right. you need sapi or something but not with xp. I dont like it	TiM©:*) (977)
132652	2003-04-01 09:53:00	Have Grandchild who finds difficulty in expressing herself on paper but who otherwise is voluble...Is there such a speech recognition program suitable for a 10 year old.....	olldaddy76 (2539)
132653	2003-04-01 10:10:00	Not that I am aware of,re 10 year old,for some reason beyond me,they seem unable to perfect it,was hoping for the latest from all the geeks ,so far no luck.	Thomas (1820)
132654	2003-04-01 10:40:00	The time spent correcting the errors (dragon naturally speaking software) was more than typing it in IMHO. Its the subtle errors where the word may sound similar, but have a different meaning. You have to proof read to a high degree. The more training the better, and we are talking many hours. Also a reasonably fast PC is required to avoid "lag" In short, they are getting there but haven't quite made it yet.	godfather (25)
132655	2003-04-01 10:42:00	I talk, they type	Baldy (26)
132656	2003-04-02 02:59:00	Dragon Dictate can understand a person with moderately severe cerebral palsy (much better than I could after an equivalent time listening to his speech). So I'm sure it can cope with a 10-year old's intonation. I no longer have a handy 10-yo on whom to test my ageing IBM Simply Speaking Gold, or I might have done that and reported results. SSG does surprisingly well, as...long..as...you..put...distinct...pauses between each word. Flowing-speech interpreters have got much better since that was published. The problem I've found with most speech recognisers I've tried is the escalating misinterpetation syndrome. It'll be chugging along quite reliably and you'll erm or cough, or slightly misspeak a word, and it will come up with an interpretation so odd that it infects your following speech with a tone of laughter...leading to even weirder misinterpretations, which increase the laughter... I finish up just having to switch the thing off, erase a couple of paragraphs and wait a minute or two for my voice to get back to normal. But I'm sure a couple of generations on, voice recognition is much better. Certainly the demonstrations I've seen recently (even in rooms with a fair amount of background noise) are impressive. Other users have pointed to vulnerability to stray electrical interference. One guy I knew had the cable to his headset dropped directly from the ceiling as the only way of avoiding the "noise" from power and lighting cables in the walls. "And it has an auto-complete feature that knows my catch-phrases; so I only have to say 'call me a....' and it goes on '...reactionary old Welsh bugger if you will..'. Saves me a lot of time." This from the man with the ceiling cable; a writer with OOS, who swore by it; but unfortunately I forget exactly which product he was using. That too was some years ago, and the technology can only have improved; you can almost certainly get something as capable as what he was using for next to nothing today. A lot of it is discipline, I think; developing a smooth flow of speaking and of switching the thing off smartly when noises off cause errors, or when you stop expressing yourself clearly. Argus	argus (366)
132657	2003-04-02 03:24:00	Thanks ARGUS...Our granddaughter has been tested by teachers and psychologists but she is not bad enough for assistance...but her I Q is reported to be only 50 yet to us she appears a little backward but lovingly normal. She has a very close relation who is a cousin but now 22 who had similar problem years ago now earning A$67,000 a year.....supervising chef....won't return home.. EXPECT eventually to get advice from her teachers and those testing her..... .	olldaddy76 (2539)
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