Voice recognition software showcase

[eastwright]

I happened to write a lot of correspondence on a daily basis. Just wonder if modern voice recognition packages could be of any help here. Today I have spent several hours playing with Windows XP bundled speech recognition system. Not sure what is a primary reason – the system itself, the cheap no-name headset or just my voice, but results are rather unusable. I would be grateful to anybody willing to share their experience and post results of voice input for the following text (please, no correction, no keyboard input, just raw results):

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The estimated completion date is an estimate and not a firm commitment.

Once a programmer is assigned to your project, the development schedule will be added to this ticket.

In order to complete the works ordered we will need the following information:

A temporary ftp or shell account on your web server.

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Below are my results
Software: Windows XP bundled speech recognition driver
Trained: Yes, with all text samples
Microphone: cheap no name headset

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Thanks in advance.

[abkaiser]

What you want to get is "Dragon NaturallySpeaking", the best voice and speech recognition software available today. I've written a fairly extensive review, tips, tricks and recommendations on my website, but I can't link out per TOS. Email me and I'll give you the link.

Get the Dragon NaturallySpeaking product, a quality microphone (they do make a big difference), and probably a USB sound pod. I use DNS weekly, and after proper setup and training get about 99% accuracy. The sample text you quoted is no problem.

Andy