I don't use voice input myself so might be wrong one this one but wasn't the
big headlines about one of the software releases a year or so back that you
could now set up roaming voice profiles?
i.e once you've trained the software you can move your voice signature from
one machine to another, this would mean each lecturer would only have to
train the software once then give their profile to students when necessary.
support offices could even hold an archive of lecturer voice signatures of
staff in institutions where this method is widely used.
how futuristic an idea is this.
Adrian Higginbotham.
SURFACE (Salford University, Research Focus on Accessible Environments).
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fax (44)-161-2955011,
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textphone (44)-161-2953599.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Alison Cox <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Voice recognition, digital recording and MP3
> On the subject of digital/voice input, Bernard Doherty wrote:
> >
> > Minidiscs also have the advantage of being digital and so capable of
> > driving speech-input software (providing the player has a port for
> > connecting to a PC). .................................
> > ...recently I have met a couple of students who do it. They record
> > lectures, generate enormous word documents, then edit them down. Of
> > course, it means persuading lecturers to wear a lapel mic and dance
> > around too much, but it's miraculous when it works.
>
> It doesn't just require lecturers to wear lapel mikes and not to dance
> around excessively - it would also demand of those same lecturers a
> willingness to generate a voice profile (ie train the software) on the
> PCs of each of the students who wanted to work in this way!!
>
> Voice recognition has come along way since the 80s - but it hasn't quite
> reached the level of sophistication described - yet!! Here's to the day
> when it does!
>
> Alison Cox
> ACCESS Centre Manager
> Stevenson College
> EDINBURGH
> EH11 4DE
> Tel: (0131) 535 4727
> Fax: (0131) 535 4666
>
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