[dundee] having a conversation with your OS

[Paul Lancaster]

My sons dyslexic, so we tried most voice recognition software over the 
years, but having to train the software by reading passages from the 
screen, just didnt work.
It had to be able to recognise the user's voice and vocal patterns, 
hence the user had to read the passages - not a lot of use for a dyslexic.
For voice control of the OS though I found IBM's viavoice better than 
Dragon naturally speaking (sorry both were windows based software).
Glaswegians had great problems with training the software, my friend and 
his wife, both managed to fill the whole screen with red - unrecognised 
- words.
Gave up on the idea, and decided to buy a better keyboard, and try and 
learn to type with more than one finger. Almost ther can now use one 
finger from each hand :)

Paul

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