Vioce recognition on Vista?

loopylu36

Hi, I beleive that Vista has built in voice recognition, but does anyone know how to access it from the desktop. I also have office 2007 if anyone knows if that is any better?

Thanks

malamute

Use google with Vista built in voice recognition as your search About 4,400,000 results (0.15 seconds) the first of the results give easy to follow instructions also video available. I personally have never used this function.

The_Grandmaster

I personally wouldn't bother - it takes quite a bit of time training the system and it still is not very good at catching everything and words appear with quite a lag. I do know you can teach the program new words, but it's still not very good if you have to teach every other word you want to use.

If you are willing to pay, I hear Dragon Natural Speaking (I think) is good but I have never used it before.

forgotmyname

I tried it and it was utter rubbish, Voice activated desktop. Not safe with the trashcan on the desktop.

I managed to delete several files using it. Not intentionally though.

sharkie

seen the ibm demo some years back. The salesman hated me as I asked him to read from a newspaper - he refused.

How the sales pitch works.... that microphone must be correctly positioned distance and angle. A quite room, no noise or cars etc. No air has to blow out of your mouth over the microphone, the sibilants kill the process. The dictionary has to be deleted then recreated again using your test text - better recognition hit rate. Use large words as it is more impressive and voice recognition works really well where there is large differences in words.

The killer to voice recognition is doing the opposite of above i.e large dictionary and using small words. soooo many small words sound similar and you are always correcting.

I used dragon 12? for two days. input was quicker than my typing, but after correction even a 1 fingered typist that likes loads of tea breaks could easily produce more work.