On 27 Jan 2004 at 17:19, Pauline McInnes wrote:
> Dear All,
> I wonder if any of you know if there is any equivalent programme to
> Dragon Naturally Speaking for users of Mac computers? One of our
> departments has a staff member and indeed some students who would
> really benefit from a programme that converted speech to text as
> Dragon does.
>
Hello Pauline
There is IBM Viavoice for OSX, it offers Speech to text in a similar way to Dragon
naturally speaking in Windows.
I feel that you need as much system resources as you can get, at least 128 MB RAM
per application ie 128 for OSX and another 128 for Viavoice, as a result the Apple
systems have a minimum of 512MB to help show off the systems and softwares
performance.
In my opinion it is only good at text entry and the hands free control is not as good as
what can be achieved in Dragon naturally speaking.
Hope this helps
Graham Rice, Technician
Computer Centre for People with Disabilities
University of Westminster
72 Great Portland Street
London W1W 7NH
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Tel: +44 020 7915 5428
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