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Posting Date: November 13, 2002
 

Why it's getting easier to talk to your PC (ZDNet) -- "But a top Microsoft researcher I spoke with last week says that human-quality speech recognition--good enough to let your computer reliably transcribe a newspaper read out loud--is now about a decade away." (Comments: Thanks Daniel Szuc.)

 

  

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My son has just broken his index finger playing hockey, which means he can't write for the next 4 weeks. This is a bit of a problem, since he's got some key exams coming up in December. Anyway, to help him continue with his studying and homework, I've just installed IBM's ViaVoice on our home PC. To my surprise, it works pretty well. You have to spend a couple of hours up-front 'training' it to your speech patterns, but after that it's reasonably accurate. There's still some tidying up to do when you've finished, which my son can manage one-handed, but it does a large part of the job for you. As the article says, bridging that remaining 'small' gap in comprehension will probably be a monumental task. Are there any other Webworders who use software of this kind regularly?

Posted by: Alan Fisher on November 14, 2002 05:44 AM


 

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