Good point Bruce, however I failed to mention that where these programs
have some difficulty is in dealing with numbers, e-mail addresses, web site
addresses and other esoteric stuff.  For regular text, I understand the
recognition is near perfect.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Bruce Toback [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, October 22, 1997 6:07 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Off Topic - Voice recognition, etc.

Denys writes:

>As soon as I can
>find NaturallySpeaking, I will buy it and install it on my laptop.  I
>understand that one needs to train these programs to recognize your voice.
> However once this training is done, the reliability is said to be very
>high, 95%+.  We shall see.

I question whether 95% is "very high". That's one word in twenty
misrecognized, which places a large burden on the correction user
interface. 95% is certainly good enough for current specialized voice
recognition tasks, where voice input is used in restricted problem
domains, but probably not for general dictation.

-- Bruce


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