Voice recognition technology/ att'n: techies & others!

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Pete, and Crew:

You wrote "

<< I guess that is after it has been trained by a particular individual who

will speak into it. >>

The key phrase

Training can take up to an hour and over ..Without recognition the accuracy

falls through the floor (about 0-5%)

Speech Recognition isn't quite where anyone can just walk up to it yet

Barbara speaking here....

My thought was that instead of taking friends to learn sign like some of

you have done, they could spend some hours training the thing for their voice

because it can handle a number of different voices, I was told. I thought

that would not be bad at all because then if I want to have a friend over for

supper, this could sit on the table and we could do pretty well at

conversation.

,

You wrote: " not trying to burst your bubble, but my advice is learn sign and

fingerspelling. VR is nowhere near ready to accomodate the deaf, but its a

fun toy. but say it was, you are not going to be attached to a PC 24/7 "

What is a PC-24/7? I thought I'd be attached to a cool, fairly small

laptop. What's so bad about that?

Am I still dreaming?

Barbara