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Offline Jayhawk

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Speech recognition
« on: January 12, 2010, 07:58:44 PM »
 Has anyone used Vista’s speech recognition software?  I don’t know much about it but set it up on my computer a few days ago.  I’m actually pretty surprised how well it works.  I have a little trouble on certain webpages but am getting the hang of it.  In fact, I’m using it to write this post.  I have reached a new level of laziness, now I can keep both hands in my pants!
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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2010, 08:13:40 PM »
lol that last line..   TMI    :O
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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2010, 05:39:22 AM »
I was also surprised how well it worked. Much better than Apple's comparable feature.

But while it's fun to use at first you grow frustrated with moving on submenus etc. pretty fast. The GUI we have today is simply not designed for voice commands.
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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2010, 07:43:02 AM »
i didn't even know vista came with this..................
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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2010, 09:30:35 AM »
It works well and improves with use.

Vista is junk compared to Windows 7 though. At home I had all machines running XP Pro. I have since upgraded all to Windows 7 Pro. I have 10 vista machines at the shop and I can tell you..... vista is the ugly step child compared to Win 7.
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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2010, 06:53:41 PM »
Mine has trouble understanding me when I've been drinking
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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2010, 07:50:10 PM »
I did not know vista had that? Would I be able to get that for XP?  :pray
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Offline Jayhawk

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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2010, 08:11:40 PM »
I ran into it purely by accident, went to the Control Panel to look for something and found it.  I started just by playing with the "text to speech" function before seeing the other tab.
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Offline PFactorDave

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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2010, 08:32:04 PM »
Windows 7 has it too, in the Control Panel.  I haven't played with it, but I had a copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking when it first came out.  It was pretty cool, I'm sure the newer versions are even better.
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Offline Vulcan

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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2010, 10:44:26 PM »
Meh, sneak up behind someone using it and yell FORMAT C COLON Y ENTER
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Offline Nefarious

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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2010, 09:16:59 AM »
Are there any Speech to Text Programs? for writers? for Win XP...
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Offline Westy

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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2010, 09:21:42 AM »
Wow. It can translate squeeker?
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Offline Jayhawk

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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2010, 09:36:15 AM »
You have to enunciate and dictate clearly, kind of like a newscaster.  Even then, it will still only write what you say.  So maybe, but expect posts like this:

I like planes i want more planes i want the bee twenty-nine

Not much difference, but at least most words will be spelled right.
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Offline Mickey1992

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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #13 on: January 14, 2010, 10:01:01 AM »
It's able to wrecks a nice beach?   :D
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Re: Speech recognition
« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2010, 10:47:57 AM »
Quote from: Nefarious on January 14, 2010, 09:16:59 AM
Are there any Speech to Text Programs? for writers? for Win XP...

I had an early version of this one...  http://www.1st-dragon.com/?gclid=CIDc-JGqpJ8CFQTyDAod0m9yEw

It was pretty cool way back then (like 10 years ago), I'll bet it is even better now.
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