anyone using dragon?

Post #350,203 by boxley 11/6/11 12:57:10 PM Reply	anyone using dragon? http://www.nuance.co...gnition/index.htm Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #350,205 by folkert 11/6/11 1:57:13 PM Reply	Why?
Post #350,212 by boxley 11/6/11 2:24:21 PM Reply	the tv add looked pretty neat Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #350,214 by folkert 11/6/11 2:51:05 PM Reply	"select dreary" Oh yeah... that whole adv looks like crap. Its so effing stupid. I know of a lawyer's secretary that swears by it, but she has to go and re-write most everything and edit the proper words many times. She ends up taking about the same amount of time to get the right words and edit the syntax to be proper. But she doesn't see it that way. Though the person she shares the work load with, does about three time the number of documents and words per day. Funny how being 'the' Senior Partner's "Grand" niece works like that. And no, she doesn't realize the others around her are working three times faster. The only thing Dragon is good for is casual typists that can't keep a straight sentence in their head long enough to type it and elucidate it completely or clearly. If you get my drift. The niece only keeps the job because of her Great Uncle. Yes, everyone knows it except the Senior Partners and the Great Uncle and of course the niece. Of course, she is the only "regular employee" that gets to have lunch made for her in the Executive Lunchroom. Where as the rest of the employees have to select from "catered and cook to order" food from a local steakhouse.
Post #350,209 by crazy 11/6/11 2:01:18 PM Reply	Long time ago Took a lot of training. And more training. And more training. It would give about a 90% hit rate, so as long as you are flowing through large amounts and not minding the fix/rewrite pass, it was great. If I was writing a long winded novel, I would have kept using it. Shitty for coding though. They came out with the specialized dictionaries for medical and other professions to limit the dictionary they had to contend with. Good lemons to lemonade strategy.
Post #351,069 by Another Scott 11/22/11 9:38:18 PM Reply	PK answers. http://krugman.blogs...gnition-software/ HTH! Cheers, Scott.
Post #351,071 by folkert 11/22/11 11:14:56 PM Reply	Big Jed had a light on.
Post #351,103 by malraux 11/23/11 12:07:57 PM Reply	No no no It's "Bingo Jed in a line-up." Sheesh. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #351,111 by folkert 11/23/11 12:49:20 PM Reply	Ok... then this HAS to be right!!!! I'll never leave your pizza burning!!!
Post #351,083 by crazy 11/23/11 5:58:17 AM Reply	Simple enough It fails on proper names. You should see what google voice->text does with my name when pronounced with an Sri Lankan accent. No voice software will EVER get proper names without a lifetime of exception training. Just like us. No rules apply, so it has to be learned, not programmed. The same spelling yields many different sounds depending on what person is being referred to. This is an impossible problem, it CANNOT work out of the box.
Post #351,090 by Another Scott 11/23/11 8:55:52 AM Reply	It'll get better. If you're like me, you need a few minutes to understand many of the accents on Masterpiece (Theatre) when they have one of their mysteries on. The software is/will learning/learn as well. It's a difficult problem, but not extraordinarily so. Better algorithms, faster processors, faster storage solves these problems over time. Drum had a good post about this last week - http://motherjones.c...future-human-race Cheers, Scott.
Post #351,093 by drook 11/23/11 9:37:57 AM Reply	Ha! Imagine what it would do with Greg's -- Drew
Post #351,097 by crazy 11/23/11 10:57:45 AM Reply	Huh? For some reason I don't consider midwest to be tough to follow. But Masterpiece Theater? No way. I don't watch most brit shows, can't understand them at all. Ab Fab was the last one.
Post #351,104 by malraux 11/23/11 12:09:20 PM Reply	No, Greg's name... Particularly his last name. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #351,113 by folkert 11/23/11 12:56:27 PM Reply	Yeah.... Formerly, the Dutch spelling of the name was (pre-1935 when the family changed it as a whole): Fockert And yes, some "friends" I have from the Netherlands, call me the original pronunciation, which sound decidedly exactly like what you are thinking. We've got some serious relation in the Netherlands... many use the Fockert name in products and websites. Some are pretty large also. Folkert is actually a FIRST name in the Netherlands.
Post #351,114 by drook 11/23/11 2:06:26 PM Reply	So if you had a female relative who ran a convent ... -- Drew
Post #351,134 by folkert 11/23/11 5:20:30 PM Reply	Yep... Head Mother Fockert. DING DING DING!
Post #351,135 by folkert 11/23/11 5:20:49 PM Reply	In Charge,,, even.
Post #351,121 by static 11/23/11 3:30:16 PM Reply	Aussie accents seem to be hard for these programs. Though that might be exacerbated by a smaller market. The difficult has something to do with our vowel pronounciation, I'm not sure exactly what. Wade. Static Scribblings http://staticsan.blogspot.com/
Post #351,123 by pwhysall 11/23/11 3:32:12 PM Reply	Re: Aussie accents seem to be hard for these programs. It's because everything you say is a question?
Post #351,126 by static 11/23/11 3:33:58 PM Reply	Maybe? Static Scribblings http://staticsan.blogspot.com/
Post #351,127 by pwhysall 11/23/11 3:38:15 PM Reply	Re: Maybe? Certainly is, cobber? http://mittenz.wordp...t-to-whining-yes/
Post #351,140 by static 11/23/11 7:06:36 PM Reply	Minor point. You do have to distinguish between the native version and the exported version, however. And the exaggerated version comedians use. Wade. Static Scribblings http://staticsan.blogspot.com/
Post #351,133 by drook 11/23/11 5:19:42 PM Reply	Vowel drift http://terpconnect.u...Chang_ICPhS17.pdf http://en.wikipedia....Great_Vowel_Shift A good speech coach can take an American with no foreign language experience and, just by rotating the pronunciation of the vowels, give them quite passable foreign accents in an amazingly short time. I was in a class where we all picked up French accents in about an hour. I'm sure a native would have found it odd, but other Americans -- our target audience -- would have thought we spoke English as a second language. German was harder, because there are a lot of glottal stops we're not used to. -- Drew
Post #351,139 by static 11/23/11 7:04:13 PM Reply	This is true. I got the tag end of a program on the radio a few years ago about how the New Zealand accent developed, and it is an entirely vowel-shifted one. Australian largely is, too, but less pronounced. The best advice is from people who make drama TV outside the US for US syndication because they have to work with locals. Renaissance Pictures did this for Hercules and Xena and there was a brief chapter in one of the merchandising books explaining what they taught (both shows were filmed in NZ and Lucy Lawless is actually a Kiwi). I also saw more recently a very interesting program about how English developed. There are people today who can and do speak Middle English from before The Great Vowel Shift. It sounds odd to our ears and is much more Baltic-sounding, but fascinating nonetheless. Wade. Static Scribblings http://staticsan.blogspot.com/
Post #351,143 by Another Scott 11/23/11 8:01:52 PM Reply	Merry Mary got married. http://www4.uwm.edu/...ticmaps/q_15.html Neat stuff. Thanks for the links. Cheers, Scott.
Post #351,144 by static 11/23/11 8:37:53 PM Reply	I wanna see that kind of thing for the world! Static Scribblings http://staticsan.blogspot.com/
Post #351,147 by Another Scott 11/23/11 9:57:53 PM Reply	That's the best I've been able to find. :-)

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