I just lost a whole post! (selected it all for saving it from the hamsters, then the dictate function activated it’self and replaced my selected text with what I said)despite my resulting lack of will to live I will percivere and re-type it…
My Step-dad has just bought a laptop(I am on it now), which I will own half of (we are sharing the cost). I have just spent the last 2 or three hours training microsoft’s speech recognition system. I have ended up with a word document of complete gibberish. It is quite cool though [If I can ever get it trained] as it will ‘type’ in any place capable of taking text, like this webpage I am on now for composing the new sdmb post. To demonstrate it I will turn it on and speak this paragraph, allowing it to type the text below… (the first time I did this, before I lost the post [twice] the resulting paragraph was quite funny and almost coherent. I hope it is again)
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Not very good is it.
It is also a bit of a pain as I have to wait for the gaps between the laptop’s fan coming on (it seems to be thermostated) it doesnt even attempt to type while the fan is whurring.
Despite it’s complete inability to understand a word I say I am quite awestruck by it, and the general idea of being able to speak to a computer to dictate things and to operate it. I feel all star-treky.
Has anyone else here got it and managed to train it? what does it come with? is it standard with windows XP or office or what? (I don’t know as it was already on when we got the laptop)
