jkOTR Mobile Media Edition 33: Speech recognition on a MacBook Pro

iTunes compatible version (MP4 format, 53.8 MB 21 minutes)

WMV version (WMV format, 102 MB, 21 minutes)

Time for another jkOTR Mobile Media Edition!  Show #33 takes a look at running Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9, the best speech recognition program on the planet, on a MacBook Pro.  No, there is no Mac version of DNS but I installed the Windows Vista version on the MBP under Parallels Desktop.

In this short video I show you basic system command and control, and of course dictation and correction.  Please pardon the slightly squished up video, I found out too late that although iMovie HD is supposed to handle 16:9 widescreen video it still squished it up square.

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iTunes compatible version (MP4 format, 53.8 MB 21 minutes)

WMV version (WMV format, 102 MB, 21 minutes)

Time for another jkOTR Mobile Media Edition!  Show #33 takes a look at running Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9, the best speech recognition program on the planet, on a MacBook Pro.  No, there is no Mac version of DNS but I installed the Windows Vista version on the MBP under Parallels Desktop.

In this short video I show you basic system command and control, and of course dictation and correction.  Please pardon the slightly squished up video, I found out too late that although iMovie HD is supposed to handle 16:9 widescreen video it still squished it up square.

Subscribe to jkOnTheRun Mobile Media Edition here (RSS)

iTunes compatible version (MP4 format, 53.8 MB 21 minutes)

WMV version (WMV format, 102 MB, 21 minutes)

Time for another jkOTR Mobile Media Edition!  Show #33 takes a look at running Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9, the best speech recognition program on the planet, on a MacBook Pro.  No, there is no Mac version of DNS but I installed the Windows Vista version on the MBP under Parallels Desktop.

In this short video I show you basic system command and control, and of course dictation and correction.  Please pardon the slightly squished up video, I found out too late that although iMovie HD is supposed to handle 16:9 widescreen video it still squished it up square.

Subscribe to jkOnTheRun Mobile Media Edition here (RSS)

Comments

[dickporter]

Using a Mac to do PC thinks is ridiculous. A decently configured Vista machine can run circles around your demonstration on your Mac, with just the built in voice recognition. If you folks are so in love with Mac’s just use the Mac for what it can do. Apple has promised for years, applications that could run in parody with Windows, to no avail. It looks like running Windows in a virtual machine is their only hope. Too bad.

[Dave Rakowski]

Now if you had only used Camtasia to make a screencast of the whole thing...... ;)

Well done James! I use DNS all the time, but always use the "microphone off" command-didn't even know about "go to sleep/wake up"

Thanks for doing this.

Dave Rakowski
Allentown, PA

[Art Kavanagh]

@dickporter: "Apple has promised for years, applications that could run in parody with Windows"

Not in so many words, they haven't. You're paraphrasing. Or something.

[John in Norway]

I've been using it for awhile now and I'm still not convinced it's any quicker than the pen, certainly not for novel writing. There's too many errors. For instance, here are three:
When I say open quote, it does. However, the next word I say comes up in lower case, sometimes with a space before it!

I haven't found a way for it to delete a word. I've tried all the usual suspects but they don't delete.

I have to say 'full stop' at the end of a sentence (it writes in the word 'period' if I say that) but it doesn't always recognise that I'm saying full stop. I haven't found a way to train it that when I say full stop I mean put a period in.

It's these niggling details that make it very frustrating and some of them won't get any better no matter how much training I do.
This is on an OQO 02, by the way.

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