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> Subject: Laptop & voice recognition
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:41:33
> I was hoping someone could shed some light on the following
> question.
> Has anyone heard of a student using a laptop in lectures
> with voice recognition software loaded on it as a method of recording
I was talking to a programer working for Dragon Dictate recently and
understand that Dragon Dictate is a few months away from releasing a
version able to exclude other voices when converting speech to text.
If true, this would make the idea practical.
On the other hand, talking to various psychologists in the
Lancaster-Miller group, it is stressed that converting speech into
text during the lecture cuts out the re-reading and rephrasing stage
that greatly benefits dyslexics, etc - with their poor memories and all.
Stephen Lancaster
lancaster-Miller
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