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From: bkc at murkworks.com (Brad Clements)
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:55:03 -0400
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Subject: interfacing to Dragon from a Python app
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References: <BBn/2Yv1uoIN084yn@eskimo.com> <000801be89dd$d407a0c0$ed9e2299@tim> <HCLH3Yv1uQ4H084yn@eskimo.com>
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Message-ID: <7fll1r$6kn$1@news.clarkson.edu>
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I have used microsoft's iit product. What attracted me was the price..
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(Also, I have T3 access)
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It DOES work, though you need a good headset for dictation to work well. I
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guess that's generally true of everything else anyway..
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I'm planning on using it with Python to "read" imap messages to me via
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telephone...
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Frank Sergeant wrote in message ...
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>In article <000801be89dd$d407a0c0$ed9e2299 at tim>,
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>"Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
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>> FYI, people curious about speech recognition under Windows might want to
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>> give Microsoft's implementation a try; see the little-known
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>> http://www.microsoft.com/iit/
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>Thanks for the pointer. I browsed around the site for awhile.
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>> This is not for the Windows-ignorant, weak-hearted, or slow-modem'ed
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<wink>,
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>I couldn't quite bring myself to start the 21MB download. I'm still
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>pondering my approach to the whole Speech Recognition (SR) thing. I'm
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>gradually getting some hardware set up that might support it and
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>considering the Dragon Preferred product (around $135 somewhere on
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>the net) versus saving up for the Dragon developer's kit. Third in
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>line, I guess, is Microsoft's 21MB download. Although ...
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>I'm also thinking of overall priorities -- in that that SR might
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>not be able to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear (then again,
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>a sow's ear may be better at SR than a silk purse).
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> -- Frank
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> frank.sergeant at pobox.com
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