[Athen] Anyone here familiar with Microsoft speech recognition??

[Wink Harner]

Norm,

MS speech to text is not as sophisticated as you would hope. It is much
less accurate than DragonNaturally Speaking, error prone both in terms of
recognition & commands. I do not know if it is designed to transcribe from
a recording.  Dragon does all of that. If you want a more accurate, less
frustrating experience, get dragon. You can use it for 30 days & if it
doesn't suit your needs for any reason, you can get a refund. Nuance also
sells a very reliable portable recorder which can serve two purposes: make
an audio recording of a lecture or meeting, or transcribe YOUR voice into
text. It is not synchronus. You physically have to take the recorder back
to the computer where you've got Dragon installed, plug I have the cable &
transcribe to text. Message me directly for more info. I'm proficient in
speech to text and do lots if training on Dragon. I am disappointed in the
quality of the MS speech to text engine. Impressed with the improvements
Nuance has made. Will be happy to help.

Wink
Harner
wink.Harner at mesacc.edu
On Jun 23, 2012 8:14 AM, "Prof Norm Coombs" <norm.coombs at gmail.com> wrote:


> I hope to find someone with some familiarity using Microsoft's speech

> recognition software.

> What I am specifically interested in being able to do is to:

> 1 train the program to my voice

>

> 2 take a recording I have made and run that recording through the speech

> engine using my profile and get a reasonable text transcription of the

> recording.

>

> I'd appreciate anyone who might be able to help me understand the software

> and what would be involved in achieving my goal.

>

> Norm Coombs

> Norm.coombs at gmail.com

>

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