Gail | Tuesday, April 02, 2002 - 05:20 pm     Just out of curiosity, does anyone know of any decent voice recognition software packages for home use that are affordable. I am looking primarily for something to use for composing emails, etc. Lately, it seems if I type in more then a couple of short paragraphs my hands feel like they are on fire. I am just wondering if anyone out there has experience with this kind of software. Thanks! |
Spygirl | Tuesday, April 02, 2002 - 05:32 pm     One of my classmates uses Dragon Naturally Speaking to put all of her qualitative research interviews into text form from audio and video tapes. She really likes it, although the entire set up cost her around $200. |
Mssilhouette | Tuesday, April 02, 2002 - 05:49 pm     Dragon is really good, but you'll probably get tired of reading to teach the program your specific voice doohickies But that's probably your best bet. |
Gail | Tuesday, April 02, 2002 - 05:54 pm     $200 is reasonable. thanks! |
Gail | Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 11:36 am     I found Dragon Point and Speak on Ebay the other day and got it on Buy it Now for $22.00. I had to call the seller to give my credit card info and he was really super friendly. He is a writer and used it for telling his stories into his computer. He said it worked great for him. Thanks for the info everyone. I'll let you know how it works for me. I am trying to use the shift button today and can definitely feel my hand protesting. I wish this board was like MS word were it makes the caps for you. |
Gail | Sunday, April 07, 2002 - 11:38 am     You know? Wouldn't it be nice if the Big Brother live feed reporters had something like this? Would make it much easier to post live feeds. |
Admin | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 04:31 pm     Now that's a pretty cool idea. Just hook it up directly to the speaker...live feeds would type themselves!  |
Donut | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 09:05 pm     gail, i have carpal tunnel and i never use caps, so why should you? say goodbye to caps!! |
Gail | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 03:08 am     i have to use them sometimes. for me, if i type too much these days, my hands and wrists just ache like crazy. caps just add to the stress - especially on my right hand. at work it is not so bad, i use word and let it do most of the capitalizing for me. |
Admin | Wednesday, May 01, 2002 - 06:54 am     So how is this software working? |
Admin | Wednesday, May 08, 2002 - 07:36 am     I guess it's not...no reply! |