Speach to Text on 2.2G Celeron?

Speach to Text on 2.2G Celeron?	Scott Kelley
Re: Speach to Text on 2.2G Celeron?	John F. McGowan, Ph.D.

From: Scott Kelley Subject: Speach to Text on 2.2G Celeron? Date: 19 Dec 2004 03:36:54 -0800 Considering speech to text to create rough draft of articles I am writing. Also considering purchasing a laptop that has a 2.2G Celeron with 256k memory. Opinions as to whether that is a powerful enough system to work well? Thanks, Scott Kelley From: John F. McGowan, Ph.D. Subject: Re: Speach to Text on 2.2G Celeron? Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:16:23 GMT Hello, I have been using and developing software for the Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software. I have a 2.6GHz Sony VAIO with 1GB of RAM. Dragon NaturallySpeaking seems to be a resource hog and requires a minimum of 512MB of RAM according to the manual. You should probably get more memory. I suspect that other speech recognition engines have similar resource requirements. Depending on your situation, you may find using speech recognition for writing articles disappointing. Dragon NaturallySpeaking, for example, has an accuracy rate of about 95% with a good sound system. This means that about one in 20 words is misrecognized, omitted, or a spurious word is added. In my experience, these errors become increasingly tedious to deal with as the document being dictated gets longer. If you cannot use your hands or have difficulty using your hands, speech recognition with this accuracy level is still an enormous improvement. Speech recognition can be used for other tasks than dictating lengthy documents with much greater ease-of-use and benefits. Our customers and we use voice-recognition to control computers with giant size wall displays (using a computer projector to display the computer screen on a wall with a 10 foot or larger diagonal). We have used voice-recognition enjoyably to control DVD, music CD, and other media playback, Web browsing, electronic mail, and some other applications. Note that for many people these applications constitute most of their home use of a computer. Dragon NaturallySpeaking, for example, has good support for the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser. In addition, much electronic mail is short and conversational. The speed and subjective ease-of-use difficulties introduced by the high error rate of the speech recognition seem to be small for short conversational e-mails. Best wishes, John F. McGowan, Ph.D. President, Research and Development Division GFT Group Inc. E-mail: jmcgowan@gftgroup.com Web Site: www.Petrana.net "Scott Kelley" wrote in message news: 1103456214.740020.319620@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > Considering speech to text to create rough draft of articles I am > writing. Also considering purchasing a laptop that has a 2.2G Celeron > with 256k memory. Opinions as to whether that is a powerful enough > system to work well? > > Thanks, > Scott Kelley >