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You might have to train your voice. You have to have a good 
speaking voice. Few people do. Public speakers do. Once you learn 
how to use speech recognition, you become able to recognize the 
difference between lousy and good speech. There is a wide 
variation among speakers. 

But, this thing keeps harping on the dictation. And, again, that's 
not what I'm talking about, that's not the subject of this thread. 
This thing can't speak clearly, that's its problem.

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BillW50 <BillW50 aol.kom> wrote:

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> Subject: Re: Windows Speech Recognition Macros?
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> On 11/10/2012 4:20 PM, John Doe wrote:
>> BillW50<BillW50 aol.kom>  wrote:
>>
>>> John Doe wrote:
>>
>>>> Anybody use them?
>>>
>>> I have tried them
>>
>> This subject is a different "them".
>>
>>> off and on since 1985. And so far, they haven't improved very
>>> much in the past 27 years IMHO.
>>
>> Apparently the thing is talking about speech recognition for
>> dictation, obviously, since speech activated scripting/macroing is
>> relatively new in Windows. And there is no such thing as speech
>> activated scripting in other operating systems.
> 
> Really? Back in the late 80's, I was using it on a Commodore 64 (8-bit). 
> The Mac back then also had software to do the same, but I didn't play 
> much with with it. With the Commodore it could only understand like 64 
> words that you recorded. Not a lot, but better than nothing.
> 
> Around the year 2000 I bought a Kyocera QCP3035 cell phone. It too would 
> act on voice commands. It also had a speaker phone so everything was 
> hands free if you wanted it too. And if the phone rang and you said 
> Answer, it would answer the phone on speaker phone if you wanted it too. 
> Saying yes, no, and answer it got pretty well on the first try.
> 
> Although trying to speed dial was a different matter. If I asked to call 
> Pat, it might sometimes and ask "Call Dad?" And I would say no, call 
> Pat. And it might get it right on the second or third attempt. And I 
> always found using the keys for speed dial was far faster than arguing 
> with it.
> 
> I bought my first netbook which only came with Xandros (Linux) back in 
> 2007 and it had speech recognition as well (Asus EeePC). Although it was 
> limited to launching applications I believe. If you say mail for 
> example, Thunderbird would pop up on the screen. That worked pretty 
> well. But typing or clicking was still faster so I wasn't too impressed.
> 
>> Power users who have been put off by speech recognition for
>> dictation should not be discouraged from trying speech recognition
>> for scripting/macroing. For a macro enthusiast, speech activated
>> scripting leaves keyboard activated scripting in the dust. There
>> is no comparison between the two, it's a whole new world. Since a
>> command vocabulary is tiny compared to a human vocabulary, the
>> stupid computer has a much easier time recognizing commands (as
>> opposed to recognizing speech).
> 
> My mom asked me to install and set up Dragon NaturallySpeaking software. 
> She has tremors very badly and typing or clicking is very hard for her. 
> But she can speak well. I did everything I could except to train it to 
> her voice. And she never got it to work well at all.
> 
> I don't know, I have seen this stuff for the past 27 years and I am 
> still not impressed. I don't know if the next 27 years will be better, 
> but I am not holding my breath for it. :-(
> 
> -- 
> Bill
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