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Geoff:
Nope, it's pretty much the same. NatSpeak has taken many months of training
and experimentation, and constant care and a good deal of patience to use on a
daily basis. I do prefer it to typing, mainly because my typing leaves much to
be desired, but I won't recommend it to my professional colleagues (mental
health world), most of whom don't have the same affinity for computers as I do
(it's my favorite "toy", in addition to being my favorite professional
productivity tool). It's a great technology that's probably still in its
infancy, in terms of being easily adaptable to the "masses" of computer users
and professional dictation needs. I use it, but it makes a lot of mistakes (I
say "it" because on correction it repeats my input as I said it but lays down
different words), constantly misses contextual cues, and "forgets" words I've
trained if I don't use them often enough, which cancels the time savings in
training them specifically.
Two additional thoughts for other list members and Nat users. First, I've been
on vacation and missed hearing about how to expand the vocabulary from 30,000
to 50,000 words (I have Preferred 2.0) and the effects of this on efficiency
and accuracy for a user with a fairly large professional vocabulary.
Second (opinion country now), I've read many thoughts recently about how to
test recognition accuracy. Theoretically, total words dicated minus words
misrecognized (errors) would provide one form of overall accuracy. On the
other hand, and in real practice, it's the overall *time* used that counts, so
it would be total words correct per unit time (i.e., time to dictate, say, 100
words, minus time spent finding and correcting errors). That figure would
yield a real-world words-per-minute figure. Theoretical rates that don't
include correction time don't really mean much when you have only so much time
to do your paperwork.
Regards,
David Blair
david.blair@@camcare.com
G.Wexler -Geoff Wexler wrote:
> > ----------
> > From: G.Wexler -Geoff Wexler[SMTP:G.WEXLER@@OPEN.AC.UK]
> > Sent: Saturday, May 30, 1998 7:00:00 PM
> > To: 'D.Blair'; 'David Blair'
> > Subject: Dragon NS
> > Auto forwarded by a Rule
> >
> >
> Dear Dr. Blair,
> I have just been trawling thro. the voice users archive and have found a
> old message from you describing problems you were having with VR. I wonder
> if you eever solved them and if so how ? I am in a similar very frustrating
> condition and have wasted a lot of time since buying a new computer for VR
> with all the sofware.
> Many thanks,
> Geoff Wexler.
>
> P.S. Typed on my old computer.
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