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Is Speech Recognition Software Right For You?
The rise in the use of speech recognition software in college kids and business people has increased dramatically in the last few years. The reason it has dramatically increased is due to the software becoming exceedingly accurate.
Speech recognition software was somewhat of a joke when it first came out because you could type much faster then you could fix the errors when using it.
As technology furthers so have the speech recognition programs. Some of them even boast a 99% accuracy and will actually allow you to easily switch modes between talking and typing.
One of the great benefits of voice recognition software is that by using it you can cut the time that it will take you to type by 70%. This could free up a lot of time for you if you tend to type a lot. This is especially great for college kids to have to write a lot of papers.
When you buy a speech recognition software you are going to have to train it to recognize your voice and how you pronounce your words. You do this by reading short passages that are preset in the software.
The more training you do the more accurate it will be when you start using it. You have to do a minimal of one training session. If that is all you choose to do the speech recognition software will make more mistakes at first but the more use it the more accurate it will become.
Another aspect that can affect the accuracy of the software is the noise level around you. Some background noise won’t affect the speech recognition software to much but if someone comes up to you talking, like a child, then more times then not what they are saying is going to be typed.
So if you tend to work from home or if kids are a major part of your daily routine then you might be better off just typing.
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Windows Vista speech recognition – the whole story
While I don’t particularly like Microsoft, and found the Vista speech recognition gone wrong clip a good joke, several Microsoft blogger pointed out the that it was a case of selective media editing. I was interested in getting the whole story so I downloaded the 70mb MSFT Financial Analyst Meeting 2006: Steve Ballmer clip from here www.microsoft.com Knowing there were probably others who wanted to see it but didn’t wish to retrive the whole file, I cut it to show the entire speech recognition part. If you haven’t yet seen the CNBC selectively edited clip, I suggest you watch it here www.youtube.com Having seen this, while I still find the original clip funny, it’s clear the bigger joke is on CNBC for their selective, misleading editing and (rather silly as well) commentary… The issues and reasons for the failure are discussed here blogs.msdn.com blogs.msdn.com blogs.msdn.com blogs.3sharp.com I’m not 100% sure on the copyright status, I hope that since Microsoft makes the entire clip available on their website and the CNBC selectively edited/misleading clip is available, they won’t mind. If they do, tell me and I will remove it ASAP. NB As I hope I made clear above. I am NOT associated in any way shape or form with Microsoft, so please don’t accuse me of being so
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