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Re: Voice Recognition Software



No way will that work for getting a transcript of your teacher's
lecture. No way at all, and I work in the field of speech recognition.

1. Most of the commercially available systems are speaker-dependent.
They require the specific speaker to train the system rehearsing a given
set of sentences for maybe 1/2 hour or more.

2. The acoustic environment in a lecture is much, much worse than with a
close-talking mic.  There will be lots of background noise,
reverberation etc.

If you're buying a speech recognition system expecting this to work for
lectures, you will be very disappointed.  You're lucky if you can get
these systems to work very well under perfect conditions. I also don't
know if a 365 even has the necessary horsepower to run a recognizer (it
might).
-- 
Lee Hetherington, PhD.
ilh@sls.lcs.mit.edu
    ^^^
Spoken Language Systems