speech recognition test
I’m probably not the first person to think of this, but I’m going to write a review of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Standard Edition, while using the program itself. this is done the spirit of my previous post testing the handwriting recognition of the Microsoft tablet PC by writing a blog post using the handwriting recognition of the Microsoft tablet PC.
vet like to do is use this program to let my father used the computer to write about. (A book). I was hoping that it would be easy to use especially for someone who is not used using computer and fax someone who has no computer knowledge whatsoever. Unfortunately they see that it takes a lot of set up, and it’s not as accurate as I had hoped.
the first problem is the supplied microphone is completely useless. The program has a configuration mode when you first started — you talk into the microphone and it automatically adjust the volume based on how close you are the microphone and how love your speaking. After it determines the correct volume to use and performs a sound check to see whether or not you’re audio input system has now a high enough sound quality for the program to understand you’re saying. I could never get the supplied microphone to pass the sound quality test. I tried five times before he gave up and found another microphone that was in my closet.
now this paragraph ought to be little worse even yet because the heater to skate down. There is no more room noise and I don’t think it’s doing as good of a job at recognizing what I’m saying. (Know you stupid program there is now more room noise)
is supposedly held by what you know be the instruction book instead of just trying to plug the thing in and make it work. Then I can learn the voice commands for automatically trying to correct stakes that NaturallySpeaking makes. But I don’t think I can get my father to learn those things only he has the patience for it open parentheses no I don’t think he has the patience for it and parentheses
also my dancewear is quite a bit [my dad swears quite a bit], and the program isn’t very good at recognizing the swear words. Sepia can figure out what these ones are Golan no goal and goal in goal in a tillit [vinyl to myself (Fine, I’ll type it myself)]: boobs behest checked Shi’ites Bock mother flutter us the kind.
it also isn’t very good at pet names. I tried to get to recognize “Mimsey” (I had to type that): “means he” “means he” “Lindsay” “means he”. and I try to spell it this is what I get: “and I am S&P why” (instead of M I M S E Y) “Meriska” becomes “Briscoe”. and is not always even good regular names, let’s try Baggy: “that he” “Peggy”! There we go!
(Baggy is dying laughing as she reads over my shoulder.)
overall I conceal this is no better than nothing but it is pretty good I mean it’s certainly better than the sort of voice recognition I could write. It is the pickets quite prime time for my dad to use it. sure someone has a disability, or enough patience to train the program to really recognize the voice and …, print that Shi’ites what’s wrong with you the and uI the… let’s try that again. Sure if someone has a disability or enough patience train the program to really recognize your voice in two corrected the mistakes that it makes, I can see how it could be useful. but right now it just doesn’t work out-of-the-box.
interestingly enough we tried putting the CAT for the [in front of the] microphone, and it seemed to work a lot better. Here is what our cat had to say:
“Dammit I want food! What? No! Put me down! Put me down! Put me down!”