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wired for sound
Apr. 9th, 2004 01:23 amWell, I finally decided to take the plunge and start in on speech to text -- a.k.a. continuous speech -- software. I'm trying right now to see how close to subvocalization I can get it, since ideally one could use it in a quiet room with other people without disturbing anyone. For the moment I'm using Dragon 7.3 on a pretty slow laptop(600MHz).
It's pretty fun but occasionally quite frustrating as it will sometimes smash interesting phrases out of what I'm actually saying. It makes you ridiculously conscious of how you pronounce things, and makes you wonder, "do I really sound like that?"
For example, it has difficulty with very small words used in rapid series. So something like, "what's up with all that?" Might come out as, "it's up with all that" or worse, "what's up with a hat" which is not quite the same thing at all.
But muttering into a microphone and having words -- mostly accurate -- appear before you has a cachet all its own.
This posting for example was typed entirely through the software: only about 10 corrections had to be made. That's not much worse than my typing.
It's pretty fun but occasionally quite frustrating as it will sometimes smash interesting phrases out of what I'm actually saying. It makes you ridiculously conscious of how you pronounce things, and makes you wonder, "do I really sound like that?"
For example, it has difficulty with very small words used in rapid series. So something like, "what's up with all that?" Might come out as, "it's up with all that" or worse, "what's up with a hat" which is not quite the same thing at all.
But muttering into a microphone and having words -- mostly accurate -- appear before you has a cachet all its own.
This posting for example was typed entirely through the software: only about 10 corrections had to be made. That's not much worse than my typing.
