Ugh!!'s Greymatter Honeypot » speech recognition http://www.u-g-h.com Distracting the Mind with Information Overload Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:39:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Blogging at the speed of thought http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/10/24/blogging-at-the-speed-of-thought/ http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/10/24/blogging-at-the-speed-of-thought/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:33:16 +0000 Owen http://www.u-g-h.com/?p=2637 Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 PreferredHave you ever wanted to shout at your computer? Well, you might want to think again, and instead tell your computer what to do. Interesting idea? Well, you might be surprised to learn that I’m writing this post by dictating it into Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I installed it a few minutes ago, went through some training and proceeded to see if I could produce a blog post without too much trouble.

I’m actually quite impressed by how well it understands my voice and correcting mistakes is a doddle once you get used to it. I was speaking to a friend yesterday about how useful it would be if one could simply record his voice and get it turned into a blog post and well here I am today doing just that! I’ve heard that Dragon NaturallySpeaking can understand up to 150 words a minute, can you imagine how productive. I would be if I could blog at that speed?

Here’s what the experience looks like:

Dragon has been around for some time now, I remember someone talking to me about it many moons ago, but the quality of speech recognition seems to have improved by leaps and bounds. There’s a great New York Times Review talking about it too. Besides using it to transcribe speech, the review also shows Dragon NaturallySpeaking being used to issue commands to a computer.

If you want to get an idea just how quick Dragon NaturallySpeaking can process your dictation, just have a look at the video alongside this paragraph to watch a demo of someone really running the software through its paces. This latest version of Dragon (Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10) brings with it a 20% improvement in accuracy and I must say I was pretty darn impressed with how accurate it was (especially considering my Maltese accent)

And if you don’t believe that Dragon can be a quicker way to get your content into your blog, go ahead and take the Dragon NaturallySpeaking typing test!

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