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David Minor <[log in to unmask]>
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A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:47:40 -0500
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I read somewhere quite recently that the software has a real problem with
Southern drawls.

David Minor

>A member of the New York State Library used Dragon-Speak at one time.
>It was very time consuming to program her voice pattern.  One has to
>repeat things more than once in order for the program to identify the
>word.  You also had to take the time to add particular words that might
>be specific to your profession.  The program recognizes the more common
>words and phrases in the English language anything else, you had to add
>yourself.  Even with that the result was sloppy at best.


David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Pittsford, New York
585 264-0423
'dminor' 'at symbol' 'eznet.net'


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