Any decent voice recognition software out there?

[Scherf]

My kid wanted to try out the MS voice recognition software on my Win8 machine, thought it might speed up some school assignments.

I tried to dictate a normal letter. This is what emerged:

"Like your brain me
, And yet of little room alone This is the worst four-and school dessous members from Orange County, short of the orange and used MondayAnd an important to- Hole and long island and loan from home on home in danger for showing that he was Worse.  Many of the lingering lot of shooting ash and should ."


When I read the above back into the machine, this is what it thought I said:

"I continue to score four runs cold ocean swimmers from Orange County, shortly when jimmy was called"


At least we know Orange County is safe.

So, any (affordable) software out there that can actually do voice recognition?

TIA

[MrKrabs]

 

My kid wanted to try out the MS voice recognition software on my Win8 machine, thought it might speed up some school assignments.

I tried to dictate a normal letter. This is what emerged:

"Like your brain me
, And yet of little room alone This is the worst four-and school dessous members from Orange County, short of the orange and used MondayAnd an important to- Hole and long island and loan from home on home in danger for showing that he was Worse.  Many of the lingering lot of shooting ash and should ."


When I read the above back into the machine, this is what it thought I said:

"I continue to score four runs cold ocean swimmers from Orange County, shortly when jimmy was called"


At least we know Orange County is safe.

So, any (affordable) software out there that can actually do voice recognition?

TIA

http://www.nuance.com/dragon/index.htm

[bozon]

My kid wanted to try out the MS voice recognition software on my Win8 machine, thought it might speed up some school assignments.

I tried to dictate a normal letter. This is what emerged:

"Like your brain me
...

So, it likes brain he.
Zombie AI ?!

[MrRiplEy[H]]

My kid wanted to try out the MS voice recognition software on my Win8 machine, thought it might speed up some school assignments.

I tried to dictate a normal letter. This is what emerged:

"Like your brain me
, And yet of little room alone This is the worst four-and school dessous members from Orange County, short of the orange and used MondayAnd an important to- Hole and long island and loan from home on home in danger for showing that he was Worse.  Many of the lingering lot of shooting ash and should ."


When I read the above back into the machine, this is what it thought I said:

"I continue to score four runs cold ocean swimmers from Orange County, shortly when jimmy was called"


At least we know Orange County is safe.

So, any (affordable) software out there that can actually do voice recognition?

TIA

The last voice recognition program I tried had a calibration option where you can teach the software to correctly interpret your voice. Try that. The built in Win8 system is supposed to be pretty good.

[Randy1]

Dragon natural speaking software is pretty good.  A good microphone is a big plus.  It works best when your voice is clear and good sound level.  My son has a strong voice.  He hits very high accuracy.

One way to improve results is to get your mind to see the word you are saying.  Kind of like reading from your minds book.  Also keep in mind the software looks for the meaning of words by common use of a string of words.

I would suggest though a typing training program instead if your son has no physical restrictions..  A skill that will go with him the rest of his life.  The voice software leads to lazy typing.

[hotcoffe]

game commander II if you can find it

[MrRiplEy[H]]

  A skill that will go with him the rest of his life.  The voice software leads to lazy typing.

Heh tell me about it. How many times I've pat myself in the back for choosing a typewriting course in high-school (with actual typewriters). That has helped me enormously once I started my computing career.

[Scherf]

Thanks gents.

I definitely want the kid to keep going with normal typing, however I hate watching the hours it takes to get creative work input as things stand. "Pressing the keys" takes over and the whole thing turns to a brown semi-solid material.

[cpxxx]

I find the google voice recognition software on my smartphone very good. Bearing in my mind my accent it seems to cope very well considering.

As for the comments on typing. I absolutely recommend typing skills for all. I don't understand why it isn't compulsory in all schools at this point. Learning to type was easily one of the best things l did.

[quig]

"Like your brain me
, And yet of little room alone This is the worst four-and school dessous members from Orange County, short of the orange and used MondayAnd an important to- Hole and long island and loan from home on home in danger for showing that he was Worse.  Many of the lingering lot of shooting ash and should ."

Wow... MS has found a way to turn plain English into a work of art that could pass for SHAKESPEARE and still people complain...

[Scherf]

Wow... MS has found a way to turn plain English into a work of art that could pass for SHAKESPEARE and still people complain...

Heheh, perhaps MS is trying to generate an infinite number of monkeys...

[quig]

Heheh, perhaps MS is trying to generate an infinite number of monkeys...

MS has been producing MS-monkeys since ~`85, when the 16-bit monkeys started figuring out the golden memory gate.

That's going on 30 years... their monkey algorithm is definitely improving

[Scherf]

 

[68ZooM]

my phone has that speech to text for hands free texting BUT you really have to look at what you just speech typed one time i said "here to" and it came out "heterosexual" needless to say my girlfriend was a little confused.

[FLOOB]

I don't need software to recognize a decent voice. I guess I'm lucky.