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Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 14 6:53 pm Post subject: Dragon NaturallySpeaking
I have just purchased Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I like new toys. I'm doing this without hands. It's a clever little monkey.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45457
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 14 6:54 pm Post subject:
i played with a version in the dim past ,tis worth taking time reading to it

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45457
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 14 6:55 pm Post subject:
ps i must dig out the old disc and try it on this machine

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 14 6:59 pm Post subject:
Finding it very variable at the moment. It's doing okay, but it's struggling picking up a Latin botanical names. I think do have to train it quite a lot. It's quite clever the way it doesn't pick up anyone else's voice.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45457
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 14 7:10 pm Post subject:
i might be mistaken but i think it might be a nsa spin off product,my one ignored other folk and barking ,tis similar to the bank automated response things but rather more sophisticated. ooh i think ive remembered where the disc is

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4586
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 14 7:13 pm Post subject:
Oooooh! I was wondering what on earth you were on about!

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28110
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Thu Apr 24, 14 12:27 am Post subject:
never yet found anything of this ilk that I have persevered with for about 20 years it has been just a little bit short of the mark. you can kind of do the math, 20 years is about 1000 fold increase in power, but if you were programming a chess system it would now be able to see about 2 more moves ahead, e.g. not a lot.

Rowanlady

Joined: 21 Apr 2006
Posts: 195
Location: NE Hampshire

Posted: Thu Apr 24, 14 10:18 am Post subject:

I got it about 3 years ago for Uni essays etc

Not too bad to use and did save my hands and tendons until they recovered and I could revert to mainly manual keying

The biggest problem I had was like Nell's - it was not into geoarchaeology and frequently seemed to refuse to learn the 'big' words and Latin descriptions

Mind I think half of that was because I used words I generally only read and wrote - never actually spoke them out loud!

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