Using digital recorders and "speech to text" software with Word

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Jimmy Clay - 11 Feb 2005 16:35 GMT

I was think about buying a digital recorder and then using a "speech to
text" software, such as Dragon Naturally Speaking, to transcribe my
recording to Word.

Does this work very well? I'm just wonder how many people have tried it and
how successful they've been. Thanks.

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TF - 11 Feb 2005 21:53 GMT

I've never seen it tried with Dragon, but you can definitely get packages
that do just that such as Big Hand for instance. I don't really see a
problem with it but the audio quality needs to be really good. Voice
Recognition software (including Dragon) needs to be trained to recognise
your voice. If you train it using a decent digital microphone and then
expect it to still recognise your voice from a digital recorder, it may not
work too well unless the recorder is very good quality.

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:I was think about buying a digital recorder and then using a "speech to
: text" software, such as Dragon Naturally Speaking, to transcribe my
: recording to Word.
:
: Does this work very well? I'm just wonder how many people have tried it and
: how successful they've been. Thanks.

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