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From: Uwe Klein on 31 Jan 2010 11:09 Richard Owlett wrote: > Uwe Klein wrote: > >> Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> Being a lousy typist, I thought speech recognition would be way to go >>> for entering program code. >> >> >> I fixed that with a professional touch typing course when I was 16 ;-) > > > Attempted touch typing in high school summer session about that age. Had > only a old Smith-Corona portable (strictly mechanical- not sure if > electrics such as IBM Selectric were even available then) to practice > with. Last time I checked, the local community college didn't have a > course focused strictly on the mechanics of typing straight text. Time > to check again? You may be a bit older than me ( just past the half century ) Plain mechanic ( the sturdy version for the government ) and Plain electric. You had to type on those with perfect rythm for speeds above 250 cpm. Managed short of 300. No touch typing courses for secretaries? 1. Basic typing skills, copy from manuscript, copy from dictation 20 * 2h ~6 month 2. Typing commercial letters 20 * 2h ~6 month uwe
From: Richard Owlett on 31 Jan 2010 11:26 Uwe Klein wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: >> Uwe Klein wrote: >> >>> Richard Owlett wrote: >>> >>>> Being a lousy typist, I thought speech recognition would be way to >>>> go for entering program code. >>> >>> >>> I fixed that with a professional touch typing course when I was 16 ;-) >> >> >> Attempted touch typing in high school summer session about that age. >> Had only a old Smith-Corona portable (strictly mechanical- not sure if >> electrics such as IBM Selectric were even available then) to practice >> with. Last time I checked, the local community college didn't have a >> course focused strictly on the mechanics of typing straight text. Time >> to check again? > You may be a bit older than me ( just past the half century ) Only a decade. > > Plain mechanic ( the sturdy version for the government ) and > Plain electric. You had to type on those with perfect rythm for > speeds above 250 cpm. Managed short of 300. > > No touch typing courses for secretaries? > 1. Basic typing skills, > copy from manuscript, > copy from dictation > 20 * 2h ~6 month > 2. Typing commercial letters > 20 * 2h ~6 month They tend to insist on doing all that in a semester - slightly more than 3 months. And have all sorts of bad habits to unlearn. > > uwe
From: Alexandre Ferrieux on 31 Jan 2010 17:10 On Jan 31, 3:40 pm, Richard Owlett <rowl...(a)pcnetinc.com> wrote: > > As I said, you *DID* ask ;> Indeed. Now it's unclear whether you're at peace with speech recognition now or not... In any case, I strongly advise not to put too much hope into a breakthrough discrete speech recognition system. Instead, you may want to play with the free evaluation version of the Nuance engine, you'll get a state-of-the-art system that is easily scriptable in Tcl. Just avoid recognizing isolated phonemes, aim at words, and if possible with some syntax. -Alex
From: Richard Owlett on 31 Jan 2010 18:53 Alexandre Ferrieux wrote: > On Jan 31, 3:40 pm, Richard Owlett <rowl...(a)pcnetinc.com> wrote: >> As I said, you *DID* ask ;> > > Indeed. Now it's unclear whether you're at peace with speech > recognition now or not... I'm not losing any sleep over it. It's serving as motivation for an "educational experience". > In any case, I strongly advise not to put too much hope into a > breakthrough discrete speech recognition system. My interest evolved more towards understanding problems associated with speaker independence. > Instead, you may want to play with the free evaluation version of the > Nuance engine, you'll get a state-of-the-art system that is easily > scriptable in Tcl. Just avoid recognizing isolated phonemes, aim at > words, and if possible with some syntax. Is there a version compatible with WinXP? When I Googled only found reference for evaluation for WinCE or Vista. It's fairly low priority. Thanks. > > -Alex
From: Alexandre Ferrieux on 31 Jan 2010 19:04
On Feb 1, 12:53 am, Richard Owlett <rowl...(a)pcnetinc.com> wrote: > > My interest evolved more towards understanding problems > associated with speaker independence. .... which is basically the unsolved problem of speech recognition : finding good invariants :/ > > Instead, you may want to play with the free evaluation version of the > > Nuance engine, you'll get a state-of-the-art system that is easily > > scriptable in Tcl. Just avoid recognizing isolated phonemes, aim at > > words, and if possible with some syntax. > > Is there a version compatible with WinXP? Yup, and Linux too. You may have to register somehow to see them though. -Alex |