David
It was your message on the NVivo forum that prompted me to look at the
system demands for Dragon.
Do you have any links to these diverse opinions about Univoice?
Thanks,
Duncan
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--On 20 March 2007 17:22 +0000 David Cairns <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I think it would be fair to say that there are mixed opinions about
> UniVoice in the voice recognition community. My information is that it
> works best with US English pronunciation and that while it is okay-ish
> for dictation (ie single user, using a decent microphone) for a mixture
> of voices, and particularly for multiple voices in conversation it is of
> questionable value. If anybody hears any different, I would be really
> interested to know since I seem to spend an awful lot of time doing
> transcription at the moment....
>
> David Cairns
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Duncan Branley
> Sent: 20 March 2007 17:08
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> Subject: Voice Recognition of Multiple Voices: UniVoice
>
> While looking at some information about Dragon Naturally Speaking today
> I came across an add-on which claims to be able to transcribe 4 voices
> as part of the same recording without needing separate profiles for each
> voice. It's part of KnowBrainer and is called UniVoice. I wonder has
> anyone used it? It was released last autumn.
>
> <https://www.knowbrainer.com/storefront/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.di
> splay&category_id=19&CFID=686607&CFTOKEN=21813192&jsessionid=a0301948511
> 174408439795>
>
> This could be incredibly useful for transcribing interviews and focus
> groups if the number could be increased.
>
> There's a bit of text on the forum (to which you have to subscribe to
> read):
>
> "Having 4 people read a hundred words each into NaturallySpeaking hardly
> constitutes a serious test but we were not looking for a weekend
> project.
>
> We simply wanted to perform some preliminary tests of UniVoice to see
> how it stacks up and we have concluded the following: This variation of
> UniVoice is a highly accurate non-gender specific pre-trained user
> profile.
>
> Mark, uses NaturallySpeaking regularly and averages about 98% accuracy
> when reading text. Mark's first test was only 95% accurate. When
> reading the same text in UniVoice he repeatedly scored 100% accuracy.
> Mark produced a 2% gain in accuracy which translates into 50% fewer
> errors to correct. In Mark's case there were no errors to correct but
> keep in mind that he was reading text. In real-life conditions the
> accuracy of both UniVoice and a trained user file will be lower. A 50%
> reduction in error correcting is a huge leap in speech recognition
> technology. "
>
> <http://www.knowbrainer.com/PubForum/index.cfm?page=viewForumTopic&topic
> Id=41>
>
> Duncan
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