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>Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 10:14:06 -0500
>From: Jeff Foley <JeffF@@dragonsys.com>
>The Preferred and Deluxe versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking do
>support the tracking of menus from other windows applications (except
>of course Office'97 because of their screwed up menu objects, but don't
>get me started... ;-) You just say the command "Click" followed by the
>name of the menu item/button, just like in Dragon NaturallySpeaking itself.
>Once you have activated a menu item, you no longer need to say "Click"
>to select items on the menu. We just didn't have enough time to get it
>functional in the initial release of the product, the Personal Edition.
Guess I missed it since it wasn't underneath "macros" or "tracking" in the
help index. The manual which came with the Deluxe edition upgrade I
recently purchased had no information on this, and the quick reference guide
wasn't much help either. After giving this a try I found that you can do
this type of tracking as Jeff indicates.
Sorry to give a mistaken impression to people. That being said the
following still holds true.
You still have to dictate *only* into NaturallySpeaking and then cut and
paste your words into your other application so it's still of limited use to
me unless I go around making lots of macros to do the things that I want to
do in other applications. For example in the Eudora mail program you still
need to fill in the to: and subject fields when creating a mail message,
and while you can create macros to do this for common occurrences my
personal experiences are that I generally communicate with a range of
individuals about different subjects.
Guess I'm just spoiled by being able to dictate within the context of any
application I run and the current limitations of naturally speaking make it
in my opinion still more cumbersome for those more highly reliant on the
speech recognition system. I'll probably continue to play more and more
with naturally speaking but really still look forward to the kind of
complete integration of the continuous speech recognition engine with a
command and control mode product like DragonDictate. I find having to say
"click" before every command can get annoying especially if navigating among
applications is something you do quite frequently. The concept of having
separate command recognition from dictation mode recognition to me still
seems to be a more powerful feature. I really cook when I'm navigating
between Windows and driving the system in command mode.
I do however applaud the addition of "topics". Some years back when I was
affiliated with a DragonDictate reseller I had mentioned to some of the nice
people at Dragon Systems during a training session I was attending that the
concept of context based recognition might be a good way to improve
accuracy. Having a switch which identifies a topic you are discussing in
theory allows the system to better tune its choices with regard to
recognizing what it thinks you said. This certainly isn't a unique idea of
my suggestion, but I'm glad to see the Dragon folks having recognized the
same thing and/or having listened to feedback from myself and surely others.
Jay
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