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Sp!ke
Administrator
It still hasn't moved on much since IBM Dragon Dictate.
Save your money if I were you.
Save your money if I were you.
IanA2
MB Enthusiast
Ah....I have Vista Ultimate....but havn't noticed this function....any idea where it's buried?
Like you I tried IBM several years ago and did not have much success, I tried Dragon about 2 years ago....I found it of some use and would probably have stuck with it except my computer crashed and I had problems reloading it so did not bother! Anyway, my impression then was that it was of limited use...my wife did a study on Dragon on behalf of her work and came to the same conclusion....it may have improved again by now though....
Sp!ke
Administrator
We are forced to buy a copy every few months for some exec that's read about it in some in-flight magazine or something.
It has never proved useful long term for anyone.
Its built in to XP (control panel - Speech) as well as vista - both are just a gimmick really. (quite fun to secretly enable it and sit back and watch people freak out as their PC starts typing all by itself)
It has never proved useful long term for anyone.
Its built in to XP (control panel - Speech) as well as vista - both are just a gimmick really. (quite fun to secretly enable it and sit back and watch people freak out as their PC starts typing all by itself)
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My ex had it and I wasn't that impressed with it, she seemed happy though, but it always seemed flakey and just not good enough to be more than a gimmick like you said.
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I've used the built-in XP functionality a few times when I've had to prepare nores for a presentation that someone else is giving on my behalf. Not too bad - combined with a grammer / spell check it's much faster than me trying to transcribe what I'm saying!!
