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Hi
I'm running XP Pro with Office Basic 2003 (Word,Excel,Outlook) and I have
been trying to get Speech Recognition to work. I have 2 questions :-
1) I can get SR to function ok in Outlook, both in Dictation and Command
mode. However, in Word or Excel I can only get Command mode to work; I can
activate the menus and options with reasonable accuracy, but when I switch to
Dictation mode(by any of the available methods) the thing continues to behave
as if it is in Command mode. Any ideas why?
2) I have done the initial speech training exercise, plus one "additional"
one (Aesop's fables). I find this gives me about 30% accuracy when running
in Dictation mode(in Outlook). I'm happy to do more training to improve this
if I can believe that the effort will be worthwhile. Is 90% accuracy (or
more!!) realistically achievable, or is the technlogy not really up to it?
How much training would this take? I'd be interested in people's experiences.
(BTW - I have taken on-board all the advice in the helps on being in a
quiet room, microphone positioning, using normal speech etc etc so you can
take that as read)
Many Thanks
Rob
Hi
I'm running XP Pro with Office Basic 2003 (Word,Excel,Outlook) and I have
been trying to get Speech Recognition to work. I have 2 questions :-
1) I can get SR to function ok in Outlook, both in Dictation and Command
mode. However, in Word or Excel I can only get Command mode to work; I can
activate the menus and options with reasonable accuracy, but when I switch to
Dictation mode(by any of the available methods) the thing continues to behave
as if it is in Command mode. Any ideas why?
2) I have done the initial speech training exercise, plus one "additional"
one (Aesop's fables). I find this gives me about 30% accuracy when running
in Dictation mode(in Outlook). I'm happy to do more training to improve this
if I can believe that the effort will be worthwhile. Is 90% accuracy (or
more!!) realistically achievable, or is the technlogy not really up to it?
How much training would this take? I'd be interested in people's experiences.
(BTW - I have taken on-board all the advice in the helps on being in a
quiet room, microphone positioning, using normal speech etc etc so you can
take that as read)
Many Thanks
Rob