Vista voice recognition

The one I had seven years ago worked better than this and I only trained it for a month

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLa3Wac4O2A&search=vista fails

 

Good one.
Voice recognition seems appealing but I suspect for most it becomes a discarded toy. It falls over badly in the time it takes to edit. For me its only use would be to get a rough draft which I later edit manually. I purchased Dragon but after a few days of gee whiz I have never use it again.

 

They must have used somebody else's files. I did way better than that after rushing through the training.

@Goose I think you just saved me $200, after the initial ghee-whiz I too am wondering if it's worth it. The only thing in it's favour is that I can't type if my life depended on it!

 

Voice recognition looks tempting but i'd say don't be tempted. It works quite well in the recognition part. But over ninety five percent of my time it spent editing and reworking and that's where it's a shocker.
For some reason I can type with my left hand without looking but the other i peck using my index finger.
I have a few "learn to type programs" but after 2 days they become a bit like the unloved piano behind me or C++...one of these days.

 

Via voice was the one I used if memory serves I have played with others but as you say they are only a novelty I dont know anyone who uses one to improve productivity,there are so many words and accents it'd take a lifetime for a program to learn them all,even after using via voice for a month I seemed to spend most of the time correcting mistakes repeating the word and then typing in what I actually wanted it to type

 

Like vision, voice recognition is key to home robotics in the long run, the kind you see in the movie "Runaway". Personally I'm rooting for it, and would love to try it when they get the bugs out. Far as I know ALL of them still require a mike in your face, correct?

My personal belief is we'll have to see major improvements in neural electronics before a lot of this is possible in the real world, and by the time that happens we'll be well on our way to synthetic intelligence (the real thing as opposed to a simulation).

 

hehe didnt work that well in runaway,for anyone that hasnt seen the film it about uncontrollable robots