[MV] Re: Dictation Only VV?

[Jonathan Greene]

I had two experiences in the past year where my right (and dominant)
hand/arm was in a cast preventing me from being able to really type. 
iListen was great, though I also had a good experience with VV.


Thanks,
JG


on Tue, 13 May 2003 13:33:13 -0400 / MacVoice, Speech Recognition List said: 

>I have an RSI injury that prevents me from typing more than a little bit at
>a time.  VV works very well for me, even with the errors it makes.  I use OS
>10.2.3, and VV has worked fine since 10.1.5.
>
>A "mic not connected" error can often be fixed by making sure to select the
>correct mic in BOTH the "speech" and "sound" preference panes.  I have
>forgotten that step several times and gotten very frustrated!
>
>Robert Camner
>
>
>
>On 5/13/03 7:18 AM, "Robert Crawford" <robertc at clancrawford.us> wrote:
>
>> 
>> On Sunday, May 11, 2003, at 14:39 US/Pacific, Tom Nugent Jr wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm finally looking to get a speech recognition program, and I'm
>>> wondering what the latest wisdom is from list members on the two
>>> competing options for OS X.
>>> 
>> 
>> I was using VV.  I had 10.1.5 but when I upgraded to 10.2.6 it stopped
>> working entirely; says that the mic isn't connected.  At this point I
>> am not using any dictation product.  It never did work very well and I
>> found that I spent as much time making corrections as if I had just
>> typed it in the first place (I type at under 20wpm).  I did d/l and
>> install the patch for 10.2.x that I found but it didn't help.
>> 
>> In general, even with cerebral palsy, the voice to text under VV is
>> slower than pecking at the keyboard for me.
>> 
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