Hilarious. I attended a conference in 1993 where an IBM representative gave
a paper in which he claimed they would have a 100% accurate system within a
year. Oops.
At 12:01 PM 12/9/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Chryssa,
>
>Have used IBMVoice recognition and Dragonspeak. I used IBM last year for a
>small qualitative study on children with ADD and it was a disaster- failed
>about 40% of time and when I had a cold, the system didn't recognize my
>voice
>
>Dragonspeak is much better, especially if you are working with data for
>medical or legal content matter- they have special lexicons for these.
>
>All in all, still wind up transcribing the 'old fashion' way
>
>best
>rosa
>
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>Research Fellow, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
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>On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Kanellakis-Reimer,CM (pg) wrote:
>
>> Has anyone had experience (pleasant or not) using a voice recognition
>> programme for interview transcription, such as IBM ViaVoice or Dragon
>> Nautrally Speaking.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Chryssa Kanellakis-Reimer
>> LSE
>>
>
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