Omg

[Leonidas]

I have just found out I can dictate to my computer,

It is really slow but I'm starting to get the hang of it.

Ernie.

[Nature's heartbeat]

How can you dictate to your computer? *Curious and I think - though I'm not sure about that since I don't know more yet - willing to learn in case it's doable on any computer...*

[k2hsharpe]

does it understand an irish accent
my memory was only US one's had it easy ??

yes sireee barb !
(laughing)))

[Leonidas]

Hi Barb and Kevin,
I've had this HP Pavilion dv5 laptop for 18 months,
the other night I was trying to make a voice recording
I clicked on 'voice recognition' in the 'all programs tab' and a tutorial started, it seemed like something out off 'StarTerk'.


While replying here, my daughter Sarah just came in and started talking to me about not going to College today, this is what the computer wrote lol

*Allen given annually: two and 10:00 AM to eight, as well as those of you that you enter up and more established a bill that I talked and one can I stop: shall do have the resources lines of what we're talking about are computers lessen the start and stop listening off the top*


I think you're right about the Irish accent Kevin, it gets words wrong all the time.. Lmao !

[Nature's heartbeat]

Hi Leonidas and Kevin! Who's Barb?...and loooool about what the computer wrote...hhhh

[k2hsharpe]

ah Ernie, maybe 10 or so year ago i had an early copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking voice recognition software. I was working my way slowly (cos it didn't seem to like my accent and it was not going well) through the training sessions when i made a stupid mistake and muttered "Shit!". On the screen up popped "ship". So i responded "not ship, ... shit!" and the screen wrote "not ship, ... ship". At this point i felt reasonably aggrieved and blurted loudly "not ship, it's shit you fuckwit". Across my desktop calmly appeared the words "not ship, it's ship you bucket" at which point i went ... "aaaaaaaaaaargh" which the computer politely ignored and i clomped off in a huff.

Few days later i was chatting to a friend who was doing a PhD in pedagogic multimedia (so alledgedly knew a little of which he spoke) and he told me that the program had an anti-vulgarity bias (which sort of made it pointless for this fat aussie) but a pro-american bias. He said i could test this out by stepping away from the computer and saying quietly ... "Abraham Lincoln" or "President Clinton" etc. I did this and it got the words correct a surprising number of times, maybe 50-60% (bearing in mind that at this time i was still only training the program to recognise my voice and accent) but the program never ever once got "shit" correct no matter how close to the mike i was or how slowly and clearly i enunciated ... the bastard !!!
(laughing))))

sooooo, the moral of the tale? Try speaking with a Yank accent, let us know how you get on ?

and Nature ... 'Barb' = Bob, a diminuitive of Robert when said with an excrutiatingly fake American accent
: -)