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In article <sa9bsINNsa8@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi  
Ohzawa) writes:
>  In article <1992Apr12.181020.775@venice.sedd.trw.com>
>  verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket) writes:
>  
>  > I've used Simon for a number of weeks now with a number of mics and can
>  > definitely say that the mic's quality and it's rejection of background  
noise
>  > make a large difference in recognition rate.
>  
>  When you change the mics, do you have to retrain Simon?
>  
>  Or can the recognition rate be improved by retraining?

You probably should retrain after changing mics.  Yes you can improve  
recognition by retraining.  Simon is very sensitive to how you say a word, and  
usually you can say some words much more consistantly than others.  Also, the  
way your voice sounds can make some words better than others.  You don't have  
to say the same word as what's on the screen... i.e. I use 'finder' instead of  
'workspace' since I get better recognition on that one.  I get much better  
recognition on 'disappear' than 'hide_app'.   I've found that Simon just can't  
**EVER** understand me when I say 'terminal', so I say 'unix' which he  
understands pretty well.

I've noticed that the only people who have posted to the net saying 'Simon is a  
piece of crap and I just returned it.' are people who tried to make Simon do  
things it just can't do; namely try to train a kabillion short words and expect  
it to recognize them quickly and accurately (a la dictation), or want to shout  
at it, or make it respond to it's own sounds, etc...  Simon definitely isn't  
perfect, but it works pretty well if you make an effort to pick good words and  
say them consistently, etc...

It takes a long time to get Simon to work properly for you.  Mainly it just  
takes a while to train yourself to say things consistently, and to get Simon  
trained right...


andrew
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