We're planning to use voice recognition software at work to transcribe video. Alas, since industry leader Dragon Naturally Speaking isn't available for Mac, I'm using iListen by MacSpeech, and I'm in the process of training the software to recognize my voice. So far I've read about twenty minutes or more of text into it. The results have often been less than stellar, but I do understand it takes a while to fine-tune things.
Everything you see from this point on will have been dictated using iListen, without any editing:
Unfortunately I haven't yet learned all commands to back tracking and make corrections using iListen. It's a bit strange same words come out that aren't exactly when I would have sent, but it's still not that. Bad. I meant to save bad. Know that should say say for knots say if. I think it's starting to panic. It seems to do better if I speak smoothly. I guess that makes sense since I've been trained at to listen to Maine while I talk they headed. Who were the hell dividend main from?
This is not going well.
There something like three pages worth of instructions and demands, and really I should be training at with corrections while I'm talking. But I just want to dive then and use the software. Maybe that is in the best approach for this.
I said it isn't.
Kirsten Starcher lives in Vancouver, BC, spending half her time as a musician, playing bass in ARCTIC as well as solo, and the other half as a web designer/developer.
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