Voice Recognition Software

This week I decided to write about my experiences setting up voice recognition software on my laptop. The idea for this week’s blog came from a discussion we had in class last week. Someone said (I’m not sure who, it may have been our professor), keyboards will soon be obsolete on computers. Furthermore I do not type very fast and I thought it might be useful to have this type of software on my computer so that I would be more efficient writing papers.

When I purchased my computer last year I noticed that there was voice recognition software installed. However, I was unsure of the quality of the program; voice recognition software for Windows Vista. So I searched on the Internet for potential voice recognition programs and found that the windows software was rated fairly high. The other software applications and I found cost about 60 to 150 dollars. So I decided to set up the software on my computer instead of paying additional money.

After purchasing a headset with a microphone I went through the setup process for the software. During this process I learned how to use the software and the various commands which cover everything from placing a, or opening Microsoft word. It took me about 90 minutes to go through the process during which time the computer learned how I pronounce words. It was a relatively pain free process.

For my first attempt at using the software I “wrote” this blog entry. The first part of a blog is the corrected version and the second part is a version that came out as I spoke it to the computer. If I caught mistakes while reading I made the necessary corrections. If I did not catch them or if the mistake was a word like it and or misuse of a word I let those errors remain. Overall I enjoyed the experience of setting up the software and am excited about not having to type. Has anyone else had experience with the software? If so what has it been like to use this type of a program? There a lot more things I have to learn and I look forward to experimenting more with the software so that I can become even more efficient “writing” papers.

Results: 15 mistakes out of 380 words = 96% accuracy rating. See uncorrected version below.

This week I decided to write about my experiences setting up voice recognition software on my laptop. The idea for this week’s blog came from a discussion we had in class last week. Someone said (I’m not sure who im and then our professor), keyboards will soon be obsolete on computers. Furthermore I do not type very fast and I thought it might be useful to have this type of software on my computer so that I would be more efficient writing papers.

When I purchased my computer last year I notice that there was voice recognition software installed. However I was unsure of the quality of the program; voice recognition software four windows best to. So I searched on the Internet for potential voice recognition programs and found that the windows software was rated fairly high. The other software applications and I found cost about 60 to 150 dollars. So I decided to set up the software are EMI Computer instead of paying additional money.

After purchasing a headset with a microphone I went through the setup process for the software. During this process I learned how to use the software and the various commands which cover everything from placing a, or opening Microsoft word. It took me about 90 minutes to go through the process during which time the computer learned how I pronounce words. It was a relatively pain free process.

For my first attempt at using the software I “wrote” this blog entry. The first part of a blog is the corrected version and the second part is a version that came out as I spoke it to the computer. If I caught mistakes while reading I made the necessary corrections. If I did not catch them or if the mistake was words like it and or misuse of a word I let those errors remain. Overall enjoyed the experience of setting up the software and an excited about not having to type. Has anyone else had experience with the software? If so what has it been like to use this type of a program? There a lot more things I have to learn I look forward to experimenting more with the software so they can become even more efficient “writing” papers.