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Subject:Re: Using voice/speech-recognition software From:RAHEL A BAILIE <rbailie -at- NEWBRIDGE -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 6 Aug 1999 07:28:57 -0700
My interest in speech-recognition software has not as much to do with
dictating
text as giving commands to complete tasks otherwise handled by repetitive
mouse
clicks. (Using the keyboard is far less traumatic to my wrists than the
mouse.)
In other words, could I use this software with FrameMaker to complete this
series of commands:
Open FILE1.
Click Edit>Spelling Checker > Start Checking.
Click OK.
Click Element > Validate > Start Validating.
Click OK.
Close FILE1.
Open FILE2.
Click Start Checking.
Click OK.
Click Start Validating.
Click OK.
...
Close FILE157.
Rahel Bailie
Vancouver, BC, Canada
P Newman wrote:
> I had replied to the original posting offline. Just some comments.
> Purely my own observations. I tested both Dragon and L&H on a PII 400
> with 128 MG.
>
> *snip*
> All of these will require some minor training to get the
> correct capitalization, but in learning NatSpeak seems to have a
> slight edge.
