On 2014-08-07, 4:20 PM, Ed Vance -> Alan Zisman wrote:   
      
    EV> I remember a friend bought Dragon Naturally Speaking, and I was at his   
    EV> home when he installed and set it up.   
      
    EV> The text on the screen wasn't anything close to what he said.   
    EV> Have You tried talking to the computer to get it to do something?   
      
    EV> I don't mean Grumbling at the thing, I mean using Voice Software.   
      
   I haven't done much with voice recognition software, though I did a few trials   
   with Siri on iPad and Google Now on Android devices - sometimes they both do a   
   seemingly miraculous job of voice recognition and other times are way off the   
   mark.   
      
   While still a work in progress, they've come a long way, though... the first   
   time I tried out this technology was using IBM software on a 486 (with Win   
   3.1) - the software came with a hardware ISA-bus card, needed to improve the   
   low-powered hardware of the day.   
      
   Even so, it was necessary to speak-with-a-pause-between-each-word to help the   
   software along, and to train the software by reading a specific text passage   
   (I think from Moby Dick)...   
      
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