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Maverick, I'll let you know on Monday. :giantgrin:

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 Posted: 10:41 pm

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Cool. Thanks Scolls!

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What problems did you find with the other products you tried?
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I'm a polished public speaker, but the software seems to have difficulty understanding me. I'm trained to speak clearly. It took forever to build my personal vocal print dictionary.

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Yup, that's the limitation of the speech engine. I use the Microsoft Speech Engine, and code around that. The thing is that you've got to "train" your profile with as many of the reading bits they give you, and then you really need to have a blimmin good mic!

I actually think that this is where most of the problem comes in - the mic. I think it's still pretty much like the computer is the really old guy, and the mic is his deaf ear. Hence "I'm going to buy bread" might prompt his response, "The Boeing guy's dead?" type of thing.
Of course, any background noise is also pretty fatal - yielding plenty "the" as its best hypothesis! :bang:

For example, I very seldom get it to understand the word "left" when I'm wanting my mouse to head on off in that direction.

My solution? "made"! :banana: Of course, my neighbours must think I've completely lost the plot when they hear, "up... stop... click... home... down... made... stop... made" :banana: It's a bit of a workaround, but what the hell, eh? :blink:
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That's a good point about the mic. Dragon comes with a special headset with a boom mic and some device on the cable, so I thought I had to use theirs. I have pro recording mics.

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Oh my mic is pathetic! But it taught me a valuable lesson: When it frustrates the hell out of you, you must resist the temptation to speak ever-clearer as your disgust grows, as you achieve nothing other to completely confuse the engine! (while humans might benefit with your choice of a "better" way to pronounce a word, a speech engine might well deem it to be another, as it would not match the correct pronounciation you used before in the profile training!)

I once raised my voice into the mic, only to discover that this creates an incredible amount of distortion, the resulting hypothesis being "of". I was saying, "banana"... :blink:
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:exactly: That's it! When using this software, I feel like Garfield and smashing my computer with a mallet!

I need a drink!:alcohol::bang:

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Perhaps if mine (ever) bcomes a sellable product I should ship a mallet with each copy then? :giantgrin:

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