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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Jayhawk on January 12, 2010, 07:58:44 PM
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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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lol that last line.. TMI :O
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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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i didn't even know vista came with this..................
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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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Mine has trouble understanding me when I've been drinking
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I did not know vista had that? Would I be able to get that for XP? :pray
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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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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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Meh, sneak up behind someone using it and yell FORMAT C COLON Y ENTER
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Are there any Speech to Text Programs? for writers? for Win XP...
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Wow. It can translate squeeker?
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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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It's able to wrecks a nice beach? :D
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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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Are there any Speech to Text Programs? for writers? for Win XP...
Dragon Naturally Speaking... I used it years a go. Use if for awhile and it gets better and better.
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That's pretty pricey. Thanks for the link though.
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The best speech recognition I've run into so far is actually in... "Tom Clancy's Endwar" from Red Storm Entertainment, for xbox 360. It makes RTS gameplay fun again... problem is the game is just a vehicle to show off the speech recognition, as the game play itself isn't particularly in depth.
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Meh, sneak up behind someone using it and yell FORMAT C COLON Y ENTER
Haha!
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At the risk of being flamed by every "k0d3r", "Coader", "Old Fart" and "h44xx0r" out there, what does that do?
-Penguin
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Are there any Speech to Text Programs? for writers? for Win XP...
Yep! As many have stated, Dragon Naturally Speaking is great at this. Buy.com is currently running a deal on it. $85.00 Off + a $50.00 Mail-in Rebate. Link (http://affiliate.buy.com/gateway.aspx?adid=17662&pid=3751820&aid=10560579&sURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebuy%2Ecom%2Fprod%2Fdragon%2Dnaturallyspeaking%2D10%2Dpreferred%2Dmini%2Dbox%2Fq%2Floc%2F105%2F208720686%2Ehtml).
Only $64.99 after the rebate.
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At the risk of being flamed by every "k0d3r", "Coader", "Old Fart" and "h44xx0r" out there, what does that do?
-Penguin
It formats the C:\ drive. Generally this is the name Windows gives to the drive it's installed on by default.
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So, what's so bad about that? I don't see any issue with having a drive formatted.
-Penguin
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Formatting something means you're setting up an empty file system. All information is overwritten.
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So, what's so bad about that? I don't see any issue with having a drive formatted.
-Penguin
Format C drive and the OS is gone. Along with any files on there.
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Reminds me of the xkcd comic where a parent gets a call from the school admins asking if they seriously named their kid 'Robert');DROP TABLE Students' :lol.
Did a quick search and found it:
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exploits_of_a_mom.png)
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Among other things, my wife and I are Pro SF writers.
I use the Dragon to write, and it works well. My greatest problem is with odd character names (grin) In a recent Novel my main Character is named Keru, which the dragon allays wants to convert to Cairo.... On the flip side in November, I knocked out 56K words in 18 days.....
Regards,
Kevin
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Among other things, my wife and I are Pro SF writers.
I use the Dragon to write, and it works well. My greatest problem is with odd character names (grin) In a recent Novel my main Character is named Keru, which the dragon allays wants to convert to Cairo.... On the flip side in November, I knocked out 56K words in 18 days.....
Regards,
Kevin
Wow, I could really use something like that.
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I remember this from when Vista first came out.
"James O'Connor, Symantec Security Response Engineer has tested the Vista Speech recognition and you are able to see the result first hand in the video link at the bottom. The scenario Symantec has proposed involves a user surfing the Internet with Speech Recognition enabled. If the user manages to find his way to a malformed website that contains a malicious audio clip playing in the background, theoretically, Vista could receive instructions through Speech Recognition."
Here's a video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWYigh839gI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWYigh839gI)