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To: Steve Porter who wrote (59295)7/3/1998 9:35:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Steve, I have tried the IMB and the Dragon Dictate and prefer dragon Dictate naturally speaking. You need a really quiet room as any ambient noise gets into the calculation loop and slows things down as it tries to find where you made a door closure sound in a word.

Avoid milk or cheese when you dictate as the mucus mounts and makes you slur and yoy get more errors.

One thing I found was I did not like to talk into a mike for 2-3 hours and I got very dry mouthed and soon hated it, even with water. Never did try the stones in the mouth though. However it will grow on me and it seems to be 95% + in a quiet place. Needs a minimum 233 and 64M even though they say a 133 will do it with 16M, forget it, it slows to a crawl.
Homonyms are a problem but after a while you learn to eliminate most of them and proof it for the few errors.

Bill



To: Steve Porter who wrote (59295)7/3/1998 9:47:00 PM
From: Jay  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Steve Re "I will post exactly what the dictation software picked up"

That was quite revealing. IMHO we will have to wait for MSFT to get
it right. I'll bet they use voice for controlling the computer
and not for dictating long treatises<g>.

What do you think?

I hope I'm not over-estimating the state of the art of natural
language interfaces to software.