March 28, 2008

Mac Dictate || Windows Dragon Naturally Speaking

NASA says they'll get me what I need. Any opinions?

Posted the following at: LINK http://www.technoesq.com/?p=85

I use Linux. I am planning on getting either a Mac laptop or a laptop with Windows. The primary reason is so that I can use this software (DNS/MacDictate).

It sounds like the voice recognition engine is pretty much equivalent. However, it sounds like the Windows application is more mature.

I program for a living, so I’m going to be feeding in weird punctuation. I need to be able to hop around documents. I need to be able to create commands.

I also hope to use synergy (which allows for one keyboard/mouse to be used between networked machines with different OS flavors) to pipe speech text to various nodes in a network. I also hope to use my programming skills to extend the use of the voice recognition software. I see they offer a developer’s kit for applications with Windows. Don’t know if anything exists for the Mac.

My reason for needing this software is arm pain. It has almost become debilitating. I’m hopeful.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sounds very accurate