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nigel blanchard - 21 Feb 2007 18:38 GMT

I started using the new speech recognition and got very good results however
I have noticed that for some reason, especially when I am dictating it in
outlook 2007 the cursor dance to the start of the line which is very
frustrating and causes errors, does anybody else had this experience and
cannot be cured.

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emanon - 21 Feb 2007 21:44 GMT

>I started using the new speech recognition and got very good results
>however
> I have noticed that for some reason, especially when I am dictating it in
> outlook 2007 the cursor dance to the start of the line which is very
> frustrating and causes errors, does anybody else had this experience and
> cannot be cured.

I never had that problem with OS/2 Warp. Voice Recognition was integral to
the OS and worked wondefully. That was, let me see, ten years ago or so? So
why is Vista so revolutionary?

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Jonathan Schwartz 2 - 22 Feb 2007 06:34 GMT

Hello Nigel,

Ten years ago, Speech Recognition was approximately (at most) 75% accurate.

Considering the number of spoken words one verbally expresses, having 25% of
one’s spoken words wrong would be a very serious problem; reason it required
Vista many years for achieving true Speech Recognition.

In the event that you are not aware, currently, technology doubles every
18-months, a few years back, technology doubled every ten-years.

Today, Vista’s Speech Recognition including the ability for adding special
words with definitions to Vista’s Dictionary exceeds more than Revolutionary!

Your cursor issue is more than mysterious…at the moment renders me
speechless, and have never experienced your described cursor issue.

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> I started using the new speech recognition and got very good results however
> I have noticed that for some reason, especially when I am dictating it in
> outlook 2007 the cursor dance to the start of the line which is very
> frustrating and causes errors, does anybody else had this experience and
> cannot be cured.

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Mike - 28 Feb 2007 20:05 GMT

Is there any-chance that you are saying words like "err...." or "uh..." and
it is interperating it as "new line"? Far fetched, I know...

> Hello Nigel,
>
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> > frustrating and causes errors, does anybody else had this experience and
> > cannot be cured.

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Robert Robinson - 28 Feb 2007 21:59 GMT

> Is there any-chance that you are saying words like "err...." or "uh..." and
> it is interperating it as "new line"? Far fetched, I know...
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>>> frustrating and causes errors, does anybody else had this experience and
>>> cannot be cured.

Hi Mike,

Vista Speech is still in the dark ages compared with the best of today's
products. I would suggest using NaturallySpeaking 9.5 from Nuance
(www.nuance.com). The lower end versions now have Vista compatibility.
The Professional versions do not run on Vista as yet. There are many
reasons why NaturallySpeaking is superior to Vista including: training
with word by word recognition confirmation with multiple types of texts,
ability to edit and retrain vocabulary words and the inclusion of
specialized vocabularies such as business, legal and medical terminology.

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