Voice recognition software

[da5id]

I have been using speech recognition for windows for many years.  Right
now the only product on the market that works is Dragon
NaturallySpeaking -- DNS.  Some new stuff is on the horizon, for
Windows, and the best place to keep up with it is in the forums at
Knowbrainer.com.  Does DNS work in Windows?  Absolutely and
unequivocally yes.  The text input that you see here in this post was
input by DNS Pro  8.  And the much cheaper "Preferred" is fine unless
you need it eight hours a day in a business setting.  Keep in mind that
speech recognition is only as good as your microphone.  If you have the
money the Plantronics CS 50-USB wireless headset is the Cadillac of
speech recognition input microphones.  When you find a microphone that
you like, particularly something pricey like the Sennheiser EC3,  do
not buy it from any of the speech recognition vendors.  You can get for
half the price on Amazon.

What I would like to know with what happened to IBM ViaVoice.  The last
I heard was that IBM ported it to Linux and was working with the
open-source community to work out the bugs.  IBM sunk a lot of money
into speech recognition only to end up as an also-ran.  But still, it
would be better than nothing for Linux.  -- Gene


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da5id