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August 26, 2006

Speech Recognition [Software, Thoughts & Qs]

A Question that has nothing at all to do with MENA or whatnot - well not directly at least.

I recently started playing around with XP's speech recognition, which is not that bad but not really that useful. A toy. It did provoke a search and I see many writers indicate that the Dragon Naturally Speaking software has become worth one's while. Wondering if any readers have recent experience with Speech Recognition Software and have observations. Nota bene, my particular situation leads me to have a penchant for potential multilingual applications as I regularly write in 3 different languages. Arabic, I am sure, remains a disaster of course. Goes without saying. I would also observe that I tend to have to use rather complciated financial jarbon (i.e. phrases like "embedded optionalities in mortgage based cash flows" sadly are regularly used despite their ugliness).

Posted by The Lounsbury at August 26, 2006 01:49 PM
Filed Under: Perso Biz Notes

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Dragon is quite good in English (and I have rather severe speech impediment--so that's something). It has an automated learning feature that you have to train--but after a few weeks, it'll pick up your habits and word choices enough that it won't be making many mistakes.

Don't know about other languages. I'm sure there's a good-to-adequate French version. I doubt very much there's anything good in Arabic, though, given both the relative difficulty of the language, and at the risk of being presumptuous, relative lack of demand (which I suspect is the case.)

Posted by: Kao Hsienchih [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 26, 2006 09:08 PM

Kao

Right. I wonder if I have to buy two licenses.

I'm sure there's nothing useful in Arabic yet.

Posted by: The Lounsbury at August 26, 2006 09:11 PM

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