Re: speech recognition & e-mail messages probs !!!

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Thanks for the response Rob,

You may have a point Rob, about the sound around me I mean, but I have the
television muted and the only sound you can hear, is the sound of my bed
which is a specialist bed which uses pumps to keep the mattress at a certain
state. The Mic I have is an integral one built into my laptop and it is very
sensitive. Having said that, I do not think that is the problem, I think that
it is more fundamental than that. Thanks for the recommendation on the
"Dragon" program. I too have heard that it is really good now, if I'm right,
I think the correct program is "Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.5 Preferred"

Perhaps the experts out there could answer my original question on the
speech recognition working with emails etc.

I remember posting to this forum before, and if I remember rightly, Mark L.
Ferguson and John Barnett were the very helpful MVP's then, perhaps they can
help me with this question?
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andy t


"Rob" wrote:

2nd question, Dragon naturally speaking is better than the default vista one. Accuracy is a
little bit better, but the functionality is way better.

In ur first question, the only thing I can think is u are saying what you want to type, and
saying something that speech interprets as a command. say "what can I say" and check that
nothing ur saying is interfering with the command menus.

also might seem obvious, don't have TV or radio going lol



"andy t" <andyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am getting to grips with the Windows Vista "speech recognition" program.
Being a quadriplegic, I find it a Godsend, however, there are still some
things about the program that frustrate me and an answer to this question
would be greatly appreciated.

When I am dictating an e-mail, I seem to lose all of the punctuation and
direction commands and the speech recognition just keeps on typing what I am
saying. For example; if I say comma, or space, or backspace, it just types
the written word just like I have above and it just keeps on typing what I am
saying. Even in a message like this, it will start perfect and "text to
speech" will be working fine and then all of a sudden, "text to speech"
disappears and an alternatives panel comes up for me to choose which text I
want, which is not good for me. Can any one resolve this for me or tell me if
I am doing something wrong?

Another question: is the "Dragon Naturally Speaking" a superior program to
the "Windows Vista Speech Recognition" program and these problems I mention
above, do they or do they not arise in the Dragon program?

An answer to these questions would help me immensely.
--
andy t



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