Recommend good voice recognition software?
By thescribbler
@thescribbler (386)
United States
February 15, 2007 5:06pm CST
For various physical reasons, it's getting harder to type. A few years ago, I tried Dragon Naturally Speaking but it just wasn't accurate enough. Does anyone know if it's better these days? Or is there another that's good? Three sentences and I have to rest my hands. Not a good thing for a writer of novels like myself. It feels like I'm still working on an old fashioned typewriter, even though I have this great laptop computer.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
4 responses
@recycledgoth (9894)
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15 Feb 07
My partner suggests an IBM ViaVoice, a friend of his used it to get him through university and it is very good indeed. Hope this helps.
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@thescribbler (386)
• United States
15 Feb 07
Thanks. That and Dragon seem to be the two I've heard of. I'll look into it.
@thescribbler (386)
• United States
13 Oct 07
Check out the Demo on this page:
http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/
It still needs training to your voice, but it's gotten much better than it was a few years ago.
@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
19 Sep 07
I have a hard time typing, too, because of my cerebral palsy. I hate voice recognition software because I hate not being able to type along with my TV or music. If you find any good leads, esprcially ones which filter background noise let me know.
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@thescribbler (386)
• United States
19 Sep 07
I got Dragon Naturally Speaking version 9 but I haven't had time to fully train it yet. I don't know about filtering though, sorry.
