Ian,
I was very interested to see your comments on Via Voice, and being an
Apple reseller, this is of great interest to me for the students who we
supply the Macs for.
I hope you do not mind me asking, but do you know of the compatability
with the latest operating system Tiger with Via Voice for OSX? I am
getting conflicting answers from the supplier we buy it from, and what
I have seen on the internet about how it works. I know it is not ideal
anyway, but is there a problem with OSX 10.4?
Any advice you can give me on the above I would appreciate, I have two
students who's orders are being held up because of this.
Can you help.
Regards
Jo
www.solutions-inc.co.uk/education
Jo Dowd
Strategic Account Manager - Education
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On 21 Jun 2005, at 16:28, Ian Litterick wrote:
> We managed to evaluate iListen a few months ago and were frankly
> disappointed. It is not well supported in the UK and we would be
> surprised if anything had changed fundamentally since. My Mac Colleague
> Geoff Best writes:
>
> I have previously spent approx 4 hours with iListen trying to get it to
> work.
>
> Its recognition rates were about 60% to 70%.
>
> The developers take an AGE to get back to you - it took us 18 months to
> get
> an initial evaluation copy.
>
> It has basic functions with most applications. If you want a total
> command
> set for say Office then you need to purchase an add-on pack.
>
> The learning system is fairly rubbish.
>
> ViaVoice is the only solution we can recommend. With 512Mb of ram with
> the
> latest Mac OS it provides approx 90% to 95% accuracy but it really is
> useless when trying to make changes or alterations. ViaVoice does not
> allow
> you to import ANY audio file formats.
>
> If Speech recognition is a must and is required to be used most of the
> time
> then a PC with Dragon is really the only solution.
>
> For simple dictation without the need to have total control over your
> Mac
> then ViaVoice is ok.
>
> But iListen is not something I could recommend at all.
>
> Geoff Best
> Apple Macintosh Manager
> ACDT/PT
>
> Regards
> Ian Litterick
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nasser
>> Sent: 21 June 2005 00:18
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [DIS-FORUM] Mac v PC voice recognition update
>>
>> Ian
>> We are in the process of evaluating this software and as soon as it is
>> finished I will post it to the list. The initial finding indicates
> that
>> it lacks many features of Dragon and the recognition is not as good
>> either.
>>
>> Nasser
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian F.
>> Sent: 20 June 2005 22:37
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Mac v PC voice recognition update
>>
>> Has anyone evaluated recent versions of Mac voice input software e.g.
>> iListen - how does iListen (or other packages) compare to Dragon NS?
> Is
>> the
>> PC still the best platform for people who need (not want) to use voice
>> recognition as a way of controlling and dictating to the computer?
>>
>> Ian Francis
>
>
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