Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 voice recognition

[amicus]

This is an inexpensive introductory software for a voice recognition system that allows one to dictate instead of type and the computer types it out.

Does anyone have any experience with it or other such programs?

I have about 500 pages of typewritten manuscript from years back that I want to put in the computer and thought speaking it would be easier than typing, but I have not gotten the program installed as yet, some RAM problems and then some Windows Vista OS problems...

thanks...


Amicus...

 

[slyc_willie]

Lol. Given the title, I thought this was spam, until I saw who started it . . . .

I'd love to use voice-recognition software with my stories. But I've always wondered if the hassle would outweigh the convenience. I imagined I would end up having to do a lot of editting anyway, and there would probably be a lot of words --especially slang terms and colloquialisms -- that a rpogram would not recognize.

 

[toys_em_us]

This is an inexpensive introductory software for a voice recognition system that allows one to dictate instead of type and the computer types it out.

Does anyone have any experience with it or other such programs?

I have about 500 pages of typewritten manuscript from years back that I want to put in the computer and thought speaking it would be easier than typing, but I have not gotten the program installed as yet, some RAM problems and then some Windows Vista OS problems...

thanks...


Amicus...

I have it and love it... It is better than any other software i have tried, It actually learns the way you say things after just a few times.

 

[amicus]

The printed material that came along with the software stated that one needs to personally 'educate' the program to understand your voice and choice of sound alike words.

I watched a brief tutorial at the company site and it was quite impressive performing at about 150 words per minute. I too am very curious.

amicus

 

[amicus]

I have it and love it... It is better than any other software i have tried, It actually learns the way you say things after just a few times.

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Thank you! Good to hear that. I look forward to getting it working. The profession edition is a bit spendy, at about $700.00, do you find the version you have, I assume the '9', as sufficient for your needs?

ami

 

[fifty5]

Oddly enough, I've just been working on a website for a company that sells this software - and I wouldn't describe it as ever so cheap.

I also used it a few years ago. It ought to be better now than it was, but voice recognition has always been hard. My take is that it all depends on how good a typist you are, or have. My best option is to dictate to my wife. I can type fast enough to keep up with my brain if I'm composing on the fly, but re-typing existing stuff, or editing voice recognition text, has always felt slow.

If - as I gather - you've already written the cheque, then it's well worth giving it a try, but I wouldn't get my hopes too high...

 

[amicus]

Oddly enough, I've just been working on a website for a company that sells this software - and I wouldn't describe it as ever so cheap.

I also used it a few years ago. It ought to be better now than it was, but voice recognition has always been hard. My take is that it all depends on how good a typist you are, or have. My best option is to dictate to my wife. I can type fast enough to keep up with my brain if I'm composing on the fly, but re-typing existing stuff, or editing voice recognition text, has always felt slow.

If - as I gather - you've already written the cheque, then it's well worth giving it a try, but I wouldn't get my hopes too high...

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The introductory program was only $30.00, less than a carton of smokes, figured it worth a try. Hope you are wrong but I appreciate your thoughts. thanks...

amicus...

 

[angelicminx]

This is an inexpensive introductory software for a voice recognition system that allows one to dictate instead of type and the computer types it out.

Does anyone have any experience with it or other such programs?

I have about 500 pages of typewritten manuscript from years back that I want to put in the computer and thought speaking it would be easier than typing, but I have not gotten the program installed as yet, some RAM problems and then some Windows Vista OS problems...

thanks...


Amicus...

I bought that program years ago... maybe not the same version, but it was Dragon. I hated the damned thing. It never typed what I actually said. What it DID type was so far off base it was hilarious. I know it has to be 'trained', but after working with it 3 hours a day for a month, I gave up and took it off my computer.

 

[amicus]

I bought that program years ago... maybe not the same version, but it was Dragon. I hated the damned thing. It never typed what I actually said. What it DID type was so far off base it was hilarious. I know it has to be 'trained', but after working with it 3 hours a day for a month, I gave up and took it off my computer.

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Sorry for your experience angelic, hope mine is better it sure would be nice if it worked well.

They also you can voice navigate your computer, open files and links with voice commands and I like that idea also.

amicus...

 

[manyeyedhydra]

I tried one a few years back and it didn't really work for me. It was quite good at recognising words (although you do have to edit quite a lot) but I always felt a little silly dictating the words even though no one else was around.

Probably works quite well for the some people though I guess

 

[amicus]

I tried one a few years back and it didn't really work for me. It was quite good at recognising words (although you do have to edit quite a lot) but I always felt a little silly dictating the words even though no one else was around.

Probably works quite well for the some people though I guess

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Welcome to the forum and thank you for your thoughts.

I just had another question pop up. In doing some research on voice recognition, all the way back into the early 80's when the inventors of Dragon were working and somewhere I found reference that Windows new OS Vista, had its own voice recog system somewhere in the many programs but I have not been able to locate it or search in out on the web.

Anyone?

amicus...

 

[Liar]

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Welcome to the forum and thank you for your thoughts.

I just had another question pop up. In doing some research on voice recognition, all the way back into the early 80's when the inventors of Dragon were working and somewhere I found reference that Windows new OS Vista, had its own voice recog system somewhere in the many programs but I have not been able to locate it or search in out on the web.

Anyone?

amicus...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzJ0CytAsec

 

[Liar]

Oh, and here is a more informative movie-slash-horribly camp salespitch from Microsoft.

http://blogs.technet.com/chenley/archive/2006/02/21/420136.aspx

 

[amicus]

Oh, and here is a more informative movie-slash-horribly camp salespitch from Microsoft.

http://blogs.technet.com/chenley/archive/2006/02/21/420136.aspx

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Thank you ever so much Liar, I followed both links, downloaded the adobe flash and ran the tutorial and it seems I already have a speech recognition program on my OS that may work as well, if not better than Dragon.

To tell you the truth, I am a bit excited about giving it a try and may be lost to the world for a few days.

Thank you!

Amicus...

 

[Lisa Denton]

I've been using the Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.5 for about a month.

I tried a lots of other ones, inexpensive ones, and could never get good results. Mainly because I don't have the good microphone they all say to use.

Even with my lil ol cheap mike I have good results with the dragon. Yes, you have to teach it some words like fuckin and cunt and slang words. You teach it your voice by reading from some stories they have for that. After I did that and sorta got it broke in it only messes up a word every few sentences, and gets better all the time. I would estimate like over ten times faster than typing when using it.

If you play with the text to voice, there is one voice choice that is really good, some british girl, English Jane or British Jane or something like that. She has a slight british accent but if you set the speed up kinda fast it doesn't have that computer generated sound, its like you are hearing a real person read what you have written.

You can have it save what you wrote with your voice to play it back, but that uses a whole lot of memory, and time to save it, I don't use that.

You need to turn off stuff in your house like radio or TV even in other rooms when you are teaching it.

 

[amicus]

Thank you Lisa, very good news and I am even more excited. Your 9.5 must be a later or more professional version than the one I purchased last summer, 9.0, I hope it works as well as your seems to.

thanks again...


amicus...

 

[Lisa Denton]

Thank you Lisa, very good news and I am even more excited. Your 9.5 must be a later or more professional version than the one I purchased last summer, 9.0, I hope it works as well as your seems to.

thanks again...


amicus...

Yours will work as well, the 9.5 has some minor improvements like filtering out background noise even more, but I believe it is an updated version in that it recognizes more languages.

Just install and read a few of the sample stories things to it, spend an hour or two. Do that again when you get a chance.

Then just start. You will have good results right away and when you correct a word always click the thing to teach it, don't just correct by typing, it has the option to correctly type the word, then you click and say it. That way it learns.

 

[amicus]

Yours will work as well, the 9.5 has some minor improvements like filtering out background noise even more, but I believe it is an updated version in that it recognizes more languages.

Just install and read a few of the sample stories things to it, spend an hour or two. Do that again when you get a chance.

Then just start. You will have good results right away and when you correct a word always click the thing to teach it, don't just correct by typing, it has the option to correctly type the word, then you click and say it. That way it learns.

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Thanks yet again I have a version for XP and am awaiting a disc to install for Vista, so I have a few days before I can begin.

I just followed Liar's links and thought I had such a program with the Vista OS, but it is not listed on the control panel and I am puzzled and trying to find a windows download center and see whas up...dunno...

regards...

amicus

 

[Lisa Denton]

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Thanks yet again I have a version for XP and am awaiting a disc to install for Vista, so I have a few days before I can begin.

I just followed Liar's links and thought I had such a program with the Vista OS, but it is not listed on the control panel and I am puzzled and trying to find a windows download center and see whas up...dunno...

regards...

amicus

I was a beta tester for Vista, one review I posted was so bad a microsoft exec tried to have it removed from a forum.

I tried it again a few months ago on a secondary machine to see if like with updates and stuff they got the bugs out, I un-installed and went back to XP Pro.

One of Vista's flaws is that some programs just won't work right, it has many others, but its a pretty desktop.

 

[amicus]

I was a beta tester for Vista, one review I posted was so bad a microsoft exec tried to have it removed from a forum.

I tried it again a few months ago on a secondary machine to see if like with updates and stuff they got the bugs out, I un-installed and went back to XP Pro.

One of Vista's flaws is that some programs just won't work right, it has many others, but its a pretty desktop.

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Damn, Lisa, thas not good news for me...I was going to start a new thread, screaming for help in trying to find the voice recognition program on Vista Home Premium that it says is there on the control panel, but it is not and the search on the PC does not turn up a thing.

I am not embarrassed to admit that I am pretty much of a computer dummy, I use it for writing and research and ranting on the forum, but hell, I thought I could at least find a damned program that is supposed to be there, and even had the help of the tutorial that Liar linked me to.

What am I missing here?

a very puzzled amicus...

 

[LadyCibelle]

It's there, exactly where it should be...just not clearly accessible.

Click on "Start" "Control Panel"

Make sure you're in "Classic View"

Double Click on "Speech Recognition" and you're just set to go like in the tut Liar gave the link to.

 

[amicus]

[QUOTE=LadyCibelle]It's there, exactly where it should be...just not clearly accessible.

Click on "Start" "Control Panel"

Make sure you're in "Classic View"

Double Click on "Speech Recognition" and you're just set to go like in the tut Liar gave the link to.[/QUOTE]

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I did, 'start' and 'control panel' and I think I am in 'classic view' but I don't know how to confirm that, and the 'voice recognition' option, as is shown in the tutorial is just not there, nada....?

?

ami

 

[LadyCibelle]

[QUOTE=LadyCibelle]It's there, exactly where it should be...just not clearly accessible.

Click on "Start" "Control Panel"

Make sure you're in "Classic View"

Double Click on "Speech Recognition" and you're just set to go like in the tut Liar gave the link to.

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I did, 'start' and 'control panel' and I think I am in 'classic view' but I don't know how to confirm that, and the 'voice recognition' option, as is shown in the tutorial is just not there, nada....?

?

ami[/QUOTE]


You have to make sure you're in "Classic View" I wasn't at first and couldn't see it either....then when I clicked on "Classic View" it was there just like magic.

To confirm if you are or not....look in the left border of your window. You have either " Control Panel Home" or "Classic View", make sure that the dot is next to Classic view

 

[amicus]

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I did, 'start' and 'control panel' and I think I am in 'classic view' but I don't know how to confirm that, and the 'voice recognition' option, as is shown in the tutorial is just not there, nada....?

?

ami

You have to make sure you're in "Classic View" I wasn't at first and couldn't see it either....then when I clicked on "Classic View" it was there just like magic.

To confirm if you are or not....look in the left border of your window. You have either " Control Panel Home" or "Classic View", make sure that the dot is next to Classic view[/QUOTE]

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Hmmm...okay...I found it...it said, 'classic view' but I clicked on it anyway and oops, there it was, speech recognition, so I double clicked and it beeped and said the 'wizard' would not open because the 'sound' system was not in order?

Speakers work, music plays, videos play, dunno....sorry...appreciate your help, ideas?

amicus...

 

[amicus]

Lady Cibelle, found it, got it working, even navigated by voice to the forum but have not figured how to get it to type for me.

Thank you very much for your help, I had to configure the micro headset before it would allow me into the program, took the entire tutorial and it is quite interesting.


regards...


Amicus