speeech to text.

[Huge]

*Everything* "D i m" posts is pointless.

[Huge]

I'm not interested in it at all ... :o)

When I first got the Mac, I plugged in anything I could find with a USB plug on it, to see what happened, including a Sennheiser headset. I was mostly quite impressed, but I've never used the speech -> text again. It tends to get very confused with things like;

printf ("caption%d\n", $dq,$big,$dq,$dq,$thumb,$dq,$lines);

Indeed, I've never worked out how to make it do punctuation, rather than having it, for example, spell out "comma".

(Jesus. I wrote that. I wonder what it does?)

[RJH]

Just tried using the built in dictation on a Mac (press the Fn key twice) - worked perfectly. I'd guess Windows has similar.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yeo. Its either make a windows VM and buy dekstop dragon, or use teh cloud and 'dragon anywhere'.

But that's no big deal as that smartphone is when at home permanently wifi-ed

And can be takene where its conveninet for dictation

[Roger Mills]

Which model? Can't immediately find it on my Moto G2. What do I need to look for?

[tony sayer]

Where you send a message theirs the bit that says type message then theres a microphone symbol hit that then it says speak now speak and the words appear on the screen:)..

[Rob Morley]

[Huge]

*laugh*

[T i m]

How's that cowardly killfile working out for you then, considering you are effectively replying to another post of mine?

Fact. Voice recognition on Linux is sh1te and TNP uses Linux. Why would that statement be any less relevant than a vast number of posts people make here (and considering TNP advocates Linux and disses Windows all the time, even though he has to use Windows for the very sort of reason I stated (it's still Windows even if in a VM))?

Cheers, T i m

[Roger Mills]

Ta! It sort of works, but would need a bit of editing the other end.

[Roger Mills]

Hilarious - but I have seen it before. I'm almost tempted to play it into my phone to see how text to speech deals with it.

[Rob Morley]

He may choose to use Windows for a particular application because some developers of Windows software decide not to offer their products for Linux. That's hardly an indication that Linux is bad or Windows is good. I have no experience of speech recognition software in any environment (although ISTR picking up a copy of Dragon NS a while ago with some other stuff), I shall add it to the bottom of my list of things to do, and get back to you.

[Rob Morley]

I expect many people have, but perhaps not recently.

Background noise.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I will be using it on android linux instead

[T i m]

Not really 'a choice' then is it Rob? It's more like 'going without'. See, 'most people' have no interest in the OS outside of it doing what they want and you don't need to look very far to find out that for 'most people', Windows will do more than OSX or Linux for them. That stands to reason when it's the incumbent / de facto standard OS of the world. (And doesn't look like it's going to change any time soon).

I never even hinted at such a thing? I was using Ubuntu earlier ...

I have and was actually doing some earlier. ;-)

Please do(n't). ;-)

Cheers, T i m

[tony sayer]

It seems to me that after a while - it gets to know your voice better!..

[Roger Mills]

Is that still true if you don't correct it on the recording device?

I would envisage recording it on the phone and emailing whatever it produced to a PC, where it's much easier to edit/correct it.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yes: for me that seems to be the way to do it.

editing on a screen the size of a piece of toilet paper is not ideal

[Roger Mills]

Indeed. But what I'm not sure about is how the phone can adapt to your voice if there's no way of telling it what it got right and wrong.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Well that will need some fiddling, yes.