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Voice activated typing program

id-to-post-anything — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:46:42 GMT

Wondering if anyone can give me some info or suggest where to look.

I have an HSC student who is having carpel tunnel, RSI etc hand issues. It is making typiing very painful or sometimes near impossible.

I am looking for a voice activated typing program so, she can talk it and it will type into the computer.

She has one she's tried and it cant get it right---it gets normal words wrong to like "eruption" and especially odd names like ancient places and authors names etc----even if she types it in once to "teach" it

any suggestions for something REALLY good.

TIA

Re: Voice activated typing program

*crikey*mate* — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:54:46 GMT

Dragon Naturally Speaking.

You can train it pretty quickly.

Have a specific legal one, so maybe a version for other specialties?

But the regular one works just fine.

Re: Voice activated typing program

id-to-post-anything — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:01:21 GMT

thanks Crikey

Re: Voice activated typing program

*crikey*mate* — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:21:19 GMT

No worries.

Re: Voice activated typing program

*crikey*mate* — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:22:13 GMT

Oh, and they've got versions compatible with iPhones and iPads etc too, but the PC versions are better.

Re: Voice activated typing program

the*scarlet*pimpernel — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:25:20 GMT

Dragon Naturally Speaking is the best known, been around for donkeys years. You have to train it to recognise your speech by reading a passage provided by the program.

Re: Voice activated typing program

id-to-post-anything — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:52:54 GMT

will it learn ancient place names?

Re: Voice activated typing program

*crikey*mate* — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:09:41 GMT

I don't know, might have to do some google search for that - but how many of those would she have to use anyway?

Mine will do Latin words, but it's a legal one, so might come with the software iykwim - the basic ones are less than $100 maybe even $50, depending on the version (get the newest one they can afford. - the legal one was $900, so it may be more sensitive.

Re: Voice activated typing program

id-to-post-anything — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:11:31 GMT

all the time actually ---shes' doing ancient history

Re: Voice activated typing program

*crikey*mate* — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:15:38 GMT

I can't put links, cos they all seem to have advertising associated with them but the reviews for the

"Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Premium"

seem to be really good.

bit pricey though, maybe?

have a look.

Re: Voice activated typing program

id-to-post-anything — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:05:29 GMT

thanks.

the home version isnt too expensive. Most likely its good enough

thanks for your help everyone

Re: Voice activated typing program

lyndal1838 — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:11:44 GMT

I have a version of Dragon from the 90s (one of the early ones) and it still works perfectly so I am assured by my daughter who "borrowed" it a few years ago when she broke her arm.