I work upwards of 10 hours a day on the computer and mobile phone. Needless to say, this is a potential to affect my health adversely. In order to reduce the strain on the fingers because of typing, I have been wanting to use speech recognition since about 2007. However, I could not use it as part of a daily routine because of the poor quality of speech recognition.
I experimented with a variety of microphones, including those that were recommended by the vendors and popular sites such as this , but I would still not get an environment where I could just dictate sentences and not have to correct them after every few words. There was an additional problem of the program taking up a huge amount of memory. As a developer, I had to run other development packages on my computer simultaneously which caused the computer to slow down significantly.
A friend of mine told me that Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 12 has the ability of being able to dictate content wirelessly. This turned out to be a very useful feature. In fact, for me, it turned out to be a feature that helped me use voice recognition in my daily life instead of it just been a cool new software to try at times. I use the Dragon naturally speaking with the following arrangement:
A friend of mine told me that Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 12 has the ability of being able to dictate content wirelessly. This turned out to be a very useful feature. In fact, for me, it turned out to be a feature that helped me use voice recognition in my daily life instead of it just been a cool new software to try at times. I use the Dragon naturally speaking with the following arrangement:
- I have installed Dragon NaturallySpeaking on an Windows XP old laptop with 2G RAM. I connect to this wirelessly from a dragon naturally speaking app on my android mobile phone. Separately, on my main development machine, I login to the Windows XP laptop through remote desktop. I then dictate to Dragon NaturallySpeaking through the mobile phone and view the results on the Windows XP laptop using remote desktop.
- The superior quality of the microphone in the phone has dramatically help reduce voice recognition errors. Since the software is running on a separate machine, it does not slow down my main development machine.
Because of this feature, I have abandoned trying windows speech recognition, although I really liked it better while using browsers.
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