Speech recognition system

[Bokonon]

If the software is quite old, try putting on an American accent - early software would struggle to wreck a nice beach when spoken with a proper British accent!

The Dragon software is very, very good. We installed it at work a few years ago for a colleague and left it running in the office. A couple of hours later I came back to the computer to find it had accurately all our conversations (between 3 or different people,) swearing and all.

 

[fimm]

You should try getting railway timetable information over the phone to a speech recognition system when you want to go to Achnasheen...



- there was the option to spell it out, thankfully...

(edited for spelling)

 

[siadwell]

If the software is quite old, try putting on an American accent - early software would struggle to wreck a nice beach when spoken with a proper British accent!

A couple of years ago, a guy from IBM UK gave us a talk at work about some software they were working on to simultaneously translate speech from English to Arabic. Because it was intended for use by the US military in Iraq, the very British guy had to put on an American accent to demo it.

Given that development was funded by the US DoD, I got a bit worried when he said the next language they were going to work on was Chinese.

 

[ColinJ]

If the software is quite old, try putting on an American accent - early software would struggle to wreck a nice beach when spoken with a proper British accent!

It obviously didn't like those apples!

The Dragon software is very, very good. We installed it at work a few years ago for a colleague and left it running in the office. A couple of hours later I came back to the computer to find it had accurately all our conversations (between 3 or different people,) swearing and all.

Ha ha - I like that - that's pretty impressive!

 

[ASC1951]

The Dragon software is very, very good.

I had a version a few years ago which was only so-so, much worse than a trained typist, but no doubt huge advances have been made since then.

The thing I didn't like, which I assume is the same with all VR software, is that the output text is much harder to proof-read. All the words are correctly spelled, but they may be homophones i.e. not the word you wanted. Mis-spellings jump out of the page: it's more difficult to spot 'through' where you wanted 'threw'.