Many of the problems around this technology is the complexity of the
vocabulary desired. The less commands you want to recognize, the better
the accuracy. From a practical standpoint I always had problems with
Dragon while taking dictation or recognizing commands and controlling
the computer because of family interruptions or background noise. It
can give you strange results and take longer due to undoing and
editing! It was kind of cool, but very frustrating!
Recently, several mainstream devices have come closer to your ideals.
There is the Ford in car electronics which uses voice control of the
audio, temperature read email from your bluetooth phone, or send a text
message through your phone, and so on for a hands free experience. It
sounds pretty imprressive! It almost makes me want to drive. It is
even in their low end Focus cars. Smart phones are surprisingly getting
pretty good at this as well I hear. Google has many projects that allow
voice input and recognition for search and translating voice mails to
text emails on Android phones. Most of the heavy processing in these
cases is performed on their servers.
Don Marang
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substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working
on things that matter.
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On 3/20/2011 8:51 PM, Kenny Johnson wrote:
yes they have a video on their website with a demo. it can launch outlook
internet explorer etc from voice command. looks very nice. they just need
to add a good screen reader to the internet explorer part to make it more
complete... and add access to some specific websites like facebook etc.
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Brad Dunse'<li...@braddunsemusic.com>wrote:
Smart Computing claims the latest version of Dragon Naturally Speaking 11
Premium is top notch for speech to text and voice activation.
Brad
On 3/20/2011 06:07 PM Kenny Johnson said...
I realize they dont "need" voice activated computers but it would be much
much eaiser and faster. and the technology exists. the fact is that
people
could do many things on the computer through complete voice activation.
the
software just needs to be written... i am surprised it has not been done
already. can u tell me an example of one that promised voice activation
but
did not work very well? i would love to check it out.
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