Small Business | Forum « DragonSpeak? Voice Recognition?

DragonSpeak? Voice Recognition? (11 posts)

Topic tags: dragonspeak, voice recognition

Robin Carlisle said
1 year, 4 months ago:
Anyone use DragonSpeak or some other voice recognition software?

What do you use it for?

Recommendations?
@atlantarobin | # | Top
Rich Brooks said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@atlantarobin
I got Dragonspeak a while back (don’t know what else is out there.) I spent only a little while “training it” but never really used it.
However, I know plenty of other people who swear by it! They use it to blog and write books.
I love to type, so maybe that’s part of the reason I didn’t cotton to it.
@rich-brooks | # | Top
ian fenwick said
1 year, 4 months ago:
I use it for dictating content for books/articles etc. It works amazingly well, after training, but it does lag behind your speech, so I find I can’t look at the screen or it really slows me down.interesting thing is that dictating leads to more words, then editing is a process of cutting
@ifenwick | # | Top
Robin Carlisle said
1 year, 4 months ago:
Ian, I must confess, I like to cut, so I very much like to have lots of words in front of me to whittle away at. Also, this old gal’s fingers are getting tired, so I need to “train” myself in a different manner of word production before aching little fingers can no longer ratta tat tat away for me. Hopefully, DragonSpeak will keep me writing long after I cannot do so by hand. Any suggestions about which version I need? Ebay has lots of used ones, but don’t know how old a one I can buy safely. Whatcha think, guys? That is, of course, unless Rick wants to donate his old and unused one to a poor little Southern Damnedsel in Distress….
@ifenwick @rich-brooks
@atlantarobin | # | Top
Annie Banannie Caldwell said
1 year, 4 months ago:
I use a voice recorder to makes notes to myself while driving. I haven’t found one that understands me enough with the car background noise to be accurate in transcription, but I’m optimistic this will happen in the next year or two.
I also love to have kids talk into it, telling stories for my creative writing contest. Once voice technology is better, I’d like to expand my iPhone app to be able to handle submissions to the contest. Right now it’s more like a fun party trick.
@anniebanannie | # | Top
Dea Irby said
1 year, 4 months ago:
I use DragonDictation but mostly for entertainment. I haven’t been able to train my dragon to work. But, for a real belly laugh my daughter told fairy tales to it and then we read what it heard! Way too funny. @ifenwick So the dragon can be trained?
@deairby | # | Top
Robin Carlisle said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@deairby @anniebanannie
Could it be, dear ladies, that our voices and children’s do not pick up as well? Or, Miss Dea, perhaps dragons do not understand Southern drawls? Oh, my, I wonder if I can train my Dragon well enough to understand my little old Southern drawl. I wonder if Dragons can drawl at all?
@atlantarobin | # | Top
Dea Irby said
1 year, 4 months ago:
@atlantarobin surely, we can Southern sweet talk it!
@deairby | # | Top
Annie Banannie Caldwell said
1 year, 4 months ago:
Yeah, that’s part of it, especially with the kids. Since you have to train Dragon, it doesn’t work well for multiple users of the same program.
I’m hopeful that with Apple’s Siri technology out, that will give everyone a little kick in the drawers to develop better speech recognition software. 15 years ago I was using Dragon and it was essentially the same as it is now.
I can hear your Southern drawl in my mind now. Cool.
@anniebanannie | # | Top
Dea Irby said
1 year, 4 months ago:
ya’ll do understand @anniebanannie
@deairby | # | Top
Robin Carlisle said
1 year, 4 months ago:
Why, Miss Dea, I do declaya, you are such a bee charmer, or rather a bee chah-mah. And Miss Annie Banannie, thank you most kindly.
Alas, am a-hopin’ that there’s a Dragon or voice robot somewhere out there who was raised up in these here parts and speaks Dragon drawl well enough to understand me and Miss Dea.
My search is still on! Here’s hopin’ that Silly Siri has something better in store for us all. Miss Annie, can you tell me more about Siri?
@rich-brooks @ifenwick @anniebanannie @deairby
@atlantarobin | # | Top