Post details: Computer.... COMPUTER....

Mon November 13, 2006

Permalink 09:35:18 pm, Categories: Internet & technology, 232 words  

Computer.... COMPUTER....

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.

Comments, Pingbacks:

Comment from: John Sedore [Visitor]
Will the video being transcribed know when the task has gone pear-shaped? Sounds like a lot of extra work to me! ;)
Permalink 11/14/06 @ 05:23
Comment from: crows [Member] · http://www.crowstoburnaby.com
Yeah, I'm a little skeptical at this point. I'll give it another day of training and see where it stands... but I'm such a fast typist that I personally think I might be better off just transcribing by keyboard...
Permalink 11/14/06 @ 07:38
Comment from: Alan Kelly [Visitor] · http://www.VerbatimIT.com
If you use MS Word, you can populate AutoCorrect with your most frequently typed words. It's a must have in my profession. You must be through with that job by now, mm? Any new jobs coming up that you now don't want to type e-v-e-r-y s-i-n-g-l-e letter of every word... For my work I use both 1) HTH Engineering StartStop.com ($$) 2) Kevin Umbach's DictationPlayer ($0)
Permalink 10/28/07 @ 18:33
Really sorry, but new comments have been disabled because the spammers have ruined it for everyone. I don't maintain this blog any more and almost all the comments I get are people trying to sneak in links to their products. If you really genuinely have something you need to say to me personally, email me at kirsten --AT-- crowstoburnaby dot com.

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