Speech recognition

[Shuffler]

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.

[Nefarious]

That's pretty pricey. Thanks for the link though.

[indy007]

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.

[mensa180]

Meh, sneak up behind someone using it and yell FORMAT C COLON Y ENTER

Haha!

[Penguin]

At the risk of being flamed by every "k0d3r", "Coader", "Old Fart" and "h44xx0r" out there, what does that do? 

-Penguin

[Denholm]

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.

Only $64.99 after the rebate.

[Motherland]

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.

[Penguin]

So, what's so bad about that?  I don't see any issue with having a drive formatted.

-Penguin

[Motherland]

Formatting something means you're setting up an empty file system. All information is overwritten.

[Shuffler]

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.

[mensa180]

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' .


Did a quick search and found it:

[gunnss]

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

[Nefarious]

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.

[bcadoo]

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