At 04:01 PM 7/17/2007, Nancy Han wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a good voice/speech recognition
software for a Mac user?
In the message "Re: [Micronet] Voice/Speech Recognition
Software for
Mac", dated 2007-07-17, Dianne Walker wrote:
>iListen from Mac Speech is the best out there for Macs
--
>http://www.macspeech.com/.
However, it's not as good as the options
>for PCs.
The topic of speech recognition software was also
discussed on
Micronet about two years ago, and that conversation was
archived at:
h
ttp://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/micronet/2005/0220.html
For convenience - and in case anything from that thread
might still
be relevant to your query, Nancy - it's appended below.
Dianne also wrote:
>If your user has Leopard, we've heard that there may be
a voice
>recognition option.
Here's a claim about Leopard's speech recognition, as
well as
iListen's Leopard-compatibility, from iListen's vendor
<http://www.codecomments.com/MAC_Application
s/message263274-4.html>):
>ViaVoice doesn't work [well, at least under Mac OS X.
...] iListen
>has potential, but has not arrived yet.
>
>The answer is that for a good voice recognition
experience one needs to
>run Dragon Naturally Speaking on a [Windows PC].
This note is also being cc'd to the MAGNet list, in case
some
members might have direct experience with Macintosh voice
recognition
products ...
Finally, here's a 'composite review' - aggregating
results from
individual reviews - of several Windows products, which also
mentions
iListen for the Mac:
http://wsj.consumersearch.com/computers/voice
_recognition_software/
--
And Greg Merritt responded:
On Mar 1, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Aron Roberts wrote:
> P.S. No speech recognition software as yet, even with
significant
> training, comes close to a skilled human transcriber.
It's a
> difficult art ...
I'll second Aron on this one. I used voice recognition
software for
maybe a week or two several years back while recovering from
an injury.
It was the fastest way for me to create text under the
circumstances,
and it was wonderful to have. However, I ditched it for the
keyboard
at the first opportunity.
A possible alternative for text generation is this little
utility
called Dasher:
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/DasherSum
mary2.html
It's free and runs on many operating systems. It does
require the
manipulation of a pointing device for text generation. It
might be a
good alternative for some VR users, but useless to others.
-Greg
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At 04:01 PM 7/17/2007, Nancy Han wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a good voice/speech recognition
software for a Mac user?
>
>Thanks,
>Nancy
>
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