speech input revisited

Posted by jimspoon
Jan 28, 2013 at 04:36 AM

Hi Vince and Gary, glad to read about your experiences. I’ve been looking around and experimenting a bit. I browsed around on the knowbrainer forum and read one of Gary’s posts there.

I did see a reply from the knowbrainer people that you can do batch recognition of multiple recordings, even with DNS Premium rather than DNS Pro, if you are using the Olympus DS-7000 ($500) or DS-3500 ($400). A bit steep for me! DNS Professional is very expensive too - though DNS 11 Pro is available on Ebay for $200 - http://tmpl.at/XL1kTg .

I’ve been using MergeMP3 - http://download.cnet.com/Merge-MP3/3000-2169_4-10410936.html - to combine all my recordings into one, and then dragging and dropping the merged file on to DragonPad. This eliminates the need to drag files one at a time to DragonPad. Works well so far. And I can divide up the transcribed recordings by saying “new line” or “new paragraph” at the start of each recording.

So far I’ve just done the initial voice recorder profile I made my dictating a suggested text, and haven’t done any further training yet. The accuracy isn’t great right now, but I think certainly good enough for my limited purposes.

Unfortunately I’ll have to look at my watch and dictate my timestamps into each recording, instead of being able to use the file timestamp, I can live with that.