Dave Laycock wrote:
>>I had hoped that the more restrictive condition, ie the student
making notes to themselves using a portable tape-recorder during the
day, with the tapes played back through a decent hi-fi system at home
might possibly work, but our systems manager tells me that evidence
so far makes even this still unlikely.
<<
IBM said with Simply Speaking that it was possible to do this using a DAT
recorder, fed straight into the soundcard.
I reckon that this should be possible, with some care, using ViaVoice. But
getting the recognition sound levels right to suit the recording, and
getting the sound levels consistent on the tape, would be the difficult
part.
For the general case of the lecturer, I think that it is an awful lot
closer than it was a year ago. I think that Alan Muller might have got even
better results with ViaVoice than with Simply Speaking. A powerful PC would
be very important, (at least Pentium 200) to stop the risk of the PC
getting behind the speech. Recognition deteriorates very quickly if the
computer is not keeping up.On the other hand it should be possible to pause
the playback if things are getting too bad. I am impressed by how good
ViaVoice is on Received Pronunciation (like SS) without more than the
initial few sentences training.
Perhaps the DAT recorder approach would give more flexibility on playback
and less additional noise and interference from the radio as well as you
not needing to have the computer at the lecture.
Ian Litterick
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