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A user reviews the voice recognition capability included in Microsoft Vista, and was pleasantly surprised: “Training took only a few minutes, and the software’s accuracy was higher than anything I tried before.”

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If you have difficulty using a standard keyboard and mouse on your computer, due to repetitive strain injury, carpal tunnel syndrome, or other disability, speech recognition is a viable alternative to using your hands to control your computer.

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In an article at CBSNews.com (Voice Recognition Software Put To Test) PC Answer Man Larry Magid reviews Nuance Communications Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 voice recognition software, as well as the voice recognition software that will be included in the forthcoming Vista operating system (the next version of the Windows operating system, which is slated to be [...]

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VoiceCode is an open source project started by the National Research Council of Canada, to enable programmers with RSI to continue programming. As reported by New Scientist Magazine, the new speech recognition tool promises to “let programmers write clean code without ever having to lay a finger on their keyboard.”
“Some estimates suggest 22% of all [...]

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This is a bit of an old link, but I just found it so it’s new to me. Jon Udell, a comumnist for InfoWorld magazine provides a demonstration of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 in action. He captured a short screen video of himself actually using Dragon to dictate a column. It’s fascinating to [...]

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Naomi Aoki, a writer for the Boston Globe, in search of relief for her carpal-tunnel syndrome, recently tested two voice-recognition programs and posted her results at boston.com. She reports numerous problems with IBM’s ViaVoice 9.1 Pro, but was pleasantly surprised with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Preferred. “I picked up a Boston Globe and began to [...]