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    Voice recognition software deserves another listen

    Some corporate lawyers who write frequently should find voice recognition software to their liking (See my post of Aug. 26, 2005 on Dragon NaturallySpeaking.). I create the first draft of many of my posts by breathing fire into Nuance’s Dragon® Naturally Speaking® and have just upgraded to Version 9.0. The voice recognition software works quite accurately, especially when I dictate quotations. It is a product of Nuance Communications, based in Burlington, MA.

    Another voice recognition vendor is Crescendo Systems. That program, built on the SpeechMagic™ technology of Philips, claims that it corrects or adapts to hesitations, non-speech and redundant phrases. In general, improvements in processing power of CPUs and improved software technology will keep honing the edge of this kind of software.

    Posted on February 6, 2007 at 08:31 AM in Productivity | Permalink

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    I think that voice and speech recognition software will transform the way we interact with computers. Instead of a one-way interaction (i.e., you typing and clicking information into the machine), the use of computers in the near future will involve two-way communication. It’s a higher level of interaction with the machine.

    I have a video demonstration on YouTube:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYu6_cNRCD4

    As you can see, there’s a whole world of audible computing technology.

    I’ve been using my voice recognition software on an IBM Thinkpad 800MHz laptop that has only 256M ram and only a 20Gig HD. I use the Speech Engine from Microsoft.

    Very cool stuff…
    http://www.e-Speaking.com

    Posted by: e-Speaking | Feb 10, 2007 8:00:16 PM

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