Voice Recognition Software

Best available - any recommendations

[Visit Thailand]

I am looking for a very good quality voice recognition software that preferably works on untrained voices and automatically types the words said into word or notepad.

Also are there any bluetooth/infrared (wireless) microphones that work with above software and can transmit what is said over a reasonably short distance to a laptop?

Any recommendations?

[charlier]

I use IBM ViaVoice which seems to work pretty well. It only takes a few minutes to do the training. I also wanted to be able to use it away from my PC (noisy enviroment) and sloved that problem with a 20 meter extention cable.

[Visit Thailand]

Thanks Charlier - can it work without voice training because I will need to use it where voice training for different people won't be a possibility.

[charlier]

I didn't try it without any training but all I did for the training was read a couple paragraphs. It does say it works better with training so perhaps it might be ok. Also, you can store 'profiles' for different people/enviroments so maybe you could train it if you are not doing too many different people. One of the ways to 'train' is to take the ViaVoice output and correct it so if you got results good enought to understand you could do some training that way. You can also store the audio input so you could perhaps use that to help correct and train.

[bose]

Visit Thailand

can it work without voice training because I will need to use it where voice training for different people won't be a possibility.

yes, you can use it without voice training, but it could be a hit and miss.

Alternatively, you could supply/install it with a set of "pre-trained" profiles -one for male users, another one for females, etc. If "pre-trained" profiles are localized (for local accent, etc.), the better.

There were times ViaVoice would not "listen to me" when I had a case of bad cold. So it is quite possible to act up if it is not "trained" at all... YMMV

[Visit Thailand]

Thanks all, will have to get my hands on ViaVoice then as that seems to be the only recommendation. Can't wait to give it a go.