Tom asks:

> Anybody out there have any experience with voice recognition software? A
>  friend of mine is setting up an oral surgery practice and wishes to dictate
>  his notes into a voice recognition package.

Yes. I've always found a Dictaphone to work extremely well. However, I've
also found that its accuracy critically depends on the operator transcribing the
notes.

Nonetheless, nothing else begins to work sufficiently well for critical notes
-- and it probably never will until machine intelligence has progressed to
the level of human intelligence. Voice recognition is a great deal more complex
than simple sound transduction; it requires the capacity to choose the right
homonym in the right situation.

Consider the insight that would necessary to incite someone to cite the right
site without any capability of sight and yet write it down in an upright
manner.

Wirt Atmar



Wirt Atmar

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