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  C Richey

  1 year ago

  How well do those speech recognition programs work? Granted the last ones I've seen were a few years old. I imagine that they work better than they did then (and I wish my cable company would buy one).
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  William Sinclair

  1 year ago

  Hi,
  
  I also mentioned voice recognition software in my latest eBook but as I mentioned there I have a mother from India, an English father, and I was born in Scotland but now reside in Canada.
  
  The result is that I have had little success with voice recognition software even after much "training".
  
  On the other hand, my brother-in-law's wife (full-blooded Canadian eh), who has certain disabilities, used Dragon Naturally Speaking for her university reports with tremendous success!
  
  The latest version work splendidly, except when I step up to the microphone.
  
  William Sinclair
  http://www.TheQuickAndEasyGuide.com/
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  Tinu Abayomi-Paul

  1 year ago

  Hey C,
  
  Do you go by your first initial? I'm not being a smart ass, I just like to address people by their name. :) The program works pretty well. I added the link into the post to the last one in the series that talked about speed reading. They really did used to suck.
  
  Hi William,
  
  My father has a heavy Nigerian accent, so I know what you mean. When I was writing this, I thought about that, and it's largely why I included the option to increase typing speed instead. Thanks for the backup example though - people never believe that it works out of the box.
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  C Richey

  1 year ago

  Tina, you can called me anything you want, just don't call me Shirley! :p The comments about accents makes sense. Every time I have to call my cable/internet provider I cringe. They have the WORSE voice recognition software. One day both my wife and myself tried twice each to reach the right department...finally gave up and sent an email.
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