Have you tried a speech to text software?

yes, i have tried it before. it was brilliant. i had never seen such a thing. i didnt have that much problems with it, however, if i accidentaly mispronounced it, it wrote it completely wrong. It was very good also because you could order it to put punctuation. when you said full stop, it put . when you said comma it put , etc. gee, text-to-speech would totally help me for myLot, can you use it here?

hi, I first used it when it had come with MS office. You may say there was a draw back if we compare with VISTA Speech Recognition UI, you need to toggle switches between commands and dictation... In VISTA SR you don't need to do that. It can differentiate.. That's really cool thing... Since VISTA provides me such UI, I don't need to install extra softwares.. Don't mind.... "The problem with my software is, you need to train it first...." I strongly oppose that word "problem" 'Cos like a child it does need to be trained. Hope next versions of Speech Engine will be more powerful and efficient.

I have never tried the speech to text or even text to speech. But I have played a game where they used text to speech to talk to the players it's really cool.

I got a trial version of one of these programs way back..I liked the Idea of being able to talk and be understood by the computer,but it didn't work well for Me..correcting mistakes would take nearly as long as typing things out manually,I found!

I had heard bout such a software from IBM long long ago But unfortunately i havent tried it as yet:( But yeah..I wud definitely wanna try it

I've tried one before and it didn't work very well. It got a lot of the words wrong. It's a neat program as long as it works right. For now, I think I'll stick with typing. I can type about as fast as I can talk so it wouldn't really save me any time or anything.

I have not used this type of software for several years. I tried it simply for curiousity and found that it worked quite well, but I do not really have any practical use for it.

i have tryed it but it dont understand me so can you tell me more about it i would like to use it

I ordered a software called Talk It Type It and had to train my voice so the software could become famaliar with it. The problem is nothing but problems. It can't even understand 1 word I say. Its basicly not working at all. I don't know if its a dud or if I need a better microphone. It came with a headset to use but I might as well not even be talking because it does nothing. I've tried tweaking the software to get it to work but still its not working.

of course,i want to use it.and i haven't heared that before.is it existing? and what the name of this soft? are you have used it? is it faster than type ? how must is it cost?

Yes,I knew about that. I'm a Chinese.Chinese is difficult to recoginze by the software.So in China roports and simultaneous translations encode by typing.The fastest people in China can type 520 Chinese words/minutes.

Well,i never heard of it nor use it..computer things are new to me that is why but i am interested to know and try to use...

yes i have actually tried a speech to text software. i think the one i tried is called speak easy dragon or something. It was kind of easy to use and it picks up any accent pretty quickly. it's annoying at first use because you have to say all these sentences and stuff for them to recognize the accent and then if you make a mistake it's kind of hard to fix it. overall the software is useful and helps a lot if you are in a rush

Speach recognition has been one of the most difficult research in the past 20 years, many have tried, most have failed (and we are talking of professionals with years of experience). The only software that does it relatively well nowadays is "Dragon Naturally Speaking". The compiled code is 144Mb, and a "user details" is several Mb by itself. Difficult? No, not really! Get several PhDs first (computer science, human physiology, linguistics), at least 10 years experience in programming, learn several human languages and analyse "phonemes".

I've tried it in XP's ms word 2003. Its great actually but I can't pronounce certain words right or maybe I need to train it more. The efficiency is not that good and I end up correcting it more. It did not work for firefox 2 & 3 either so I never pursue using it.

In one of my previous projects when I was working, I managed a voice-response system. This system was used by people to apply for exit permits, book facilities or just get information. My contractor who had to program the application, used text-to-speech facility to convert some of the standard text in messages to voice, which is played to the caller when he/she invoked some of the options. We also experimented speech-to-text functions to see if it was practical to build that into the system. Our intention was to let people speak into the system from their telephones, and their inputs would be recorded, translated into text and captured into the system as part of their transaction. We found that in practice, it is not so easy for such a feature to function well. One reason is that this system is used by many people, and different people speak differently, have different accents and so pronounce the same words differently. Also their intonation vary. That makes it difficult for the application to translate and capture correctly what is said. Such systems normally have to "learn" people's speech and the way words are spoken, so that the translation will be accurate. If the system is only used by one or two persons, probably such a system will work well and be convenient, but when thousands of people with all manner of speaking use such a system, speech-to-text can become a big challenge. If the system translates the spoken words wrongly much of the time, then it will become a big headache for the implementors. In the end, we gave up the idea of implementing this technology for our project.

I actually have a really nice headset and program that does speech to text. I haven't tried it yet though. I actually forgot about it until reading this discussion. I haven't even installed the software yet. My husband got it got it from a big seminar thing he had to go to in South Carolina in May for work.

I have always wanted to try one of these kinds of software because my teachers make me recopy my handwritten notes onto the computer. It would be so much easier for me to copy them by reading them out loud.